Quotes About Destiny

I suppose we are all lumps of coal destined for one furnace or another.

I don't know why the gods made Fate our master then gave us a fighting spirit, perhaps only for their own amusement, perhaps to give us a thirst for life.

We are all born, and we all die—be it from age and illness, like your people, or from battle, like mine. Everything between is what you make of it," Grimnir said.

I was created to be destroyed.

We all know perfectly well that the man who lives out his life as a consumer," he writes in "The Coming Crisis in Psychiatry," "a sexual partner, an 'other-directed' executive; who avoids boredom and anxiety by consuming tons of newsprint, miles of film, years of TV time; that such a man has somehow betrayed his destiny as a human being.

The joke was thinking you were ever really in charge of your life. You pressed your oar down into the water to direct the canoe, but it was the current that shot you through the rapids. You just hung on and hoped not to hit a rock or a whirlpool.

I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.

Six turns." A more superstitious man might have taken that for a bad omen. Tanner only considered himself half-superstitious. He didn't believe in the good ones.

And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every time.... "Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

Justified sinners are destined to be your glorified children (Rom. 8:30).

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. (Jer. 29:11)

In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps. (Prov. 16:9 NIV)

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Is there life before death? That's chalked up In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain, Coherent miseries, a bite and a sup, We hug our little destiny again.

Wyrd oft nered unfaegne, eorl, ponne his ellen deah. Often, for undaunted courage, fate spares the man it has not already marked.

For every one of us, living in this world means waiting for our end.

But death is not easily escaped from by anyone: all of us with souls, earth-dwellers and children of men, must make our way to a destination already ordained where the body, after the banqueting, sleeps on its deathbed.

Past and present, God's will prevails.

Bear with the present; what will be will be. The future is cloth waiting to be cut.

Famous for his deeds a warrior may be, but it remains a mystery where his life will end, when he may no longer dwell in the mead-hall among his own.

Fate goes ever as fate must.

The physical notion of determinism is different from destiny or fate in a subtle but crucial way: because Laplace's Demon doesn't actually exist, the future may be determined by the present, but literally nobody knows what it will be.

The time has come for Firepaw to be made a warrior.

The first time I saw you,' he says, 'I knew we belonged together.