Quotes About Destiny

Man plans and God laughs," said Seth.

It's not how far you've come that matters. It's where you've come from.

We're all Poseidon's children, Geoffrey: whether we like it or not." "Poseidon's children," he repeated. "Is that supposed to mean something?" "We came through. That's all. We weathered the absolute worst that history could throw at us, and we thrived. Now it's time to start doing something useful with our lives.

It wasn't always about bravery or some shining inner goodness. It could just as easily be about the position of your name in the alphabet, the chemistry of your blood, or

He knew what he was doing. You probably weren't meant to die." "And that makes me lucky? It wasn't remotely unlucky to end up impaled on a wall in the first place? Just a thought.

We've managed to do without intelligent machines until now, Skade. Not because we fear them but because we know that any intelligent entity must choose its own destiny. Yet that servitor doesn't have any free will, does it? Just intelligence. The one without the other is a travesty. We've gone to war over less.]

I believe there's fate, and then you have personal choice. I believe we have the ability to change our fate.

I'm not a pessimist. I do believe that in some way we don't understand, God has a hand in things and it will all work out for America. Our money says In God We Trust. And we are the best country, aren't we?

I didn't think the real Neal Schon would call a guy like me. I'm just a guy from the Philippines.

Usually on jobs I'm quite philosophical and think 'The right girl gets the part and everything is meant to be.'

I believe in destiny and the philosophy of karma.

I always had a sense of where I was going with 'Dark Phoenix.' Jean had the greatest power imaginable... and, how's she going to deal with that?

Every time I look at my mobile phone before bed it seems to say 22:22. I thought that has to mean something in the future. Ironically when it was happening I ended up scoring 22 goals for Coventry.

I didn't decide to be a photographer; I just happened to fall into it.

You and I have been physically given two hands and two legs and half-decent brains. Some people have not been born like that for a reason. The karma is working from another lifetime.

My brother Carl became a physicist; I became an economist.

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano.

I've been fortunate. I don't pick scripts. Scripts pick me.

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

I never really wanted to be a writer. I know it sounds strange, but I honestly believe that I didn't pick the story; the story has picked me. I've written absolutely no fiction before 'The Immortals of Meluha.' Not even a short story in school - absolutely nothing.

I think that 'The Outsiders' was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

I didn't think of football growing up. This wasn't my career, something I chose. It was something I was picked in.

It really wasn't about picking Chicago. I feel like Chicago picked me.

You pick your destiny or maybe destiny picks you. But it picked me to box, definitely.