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Quotes About Destiny

God didn't have time to create a nobody.
~ Mary Kay Ash
If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.
~ Matt Bomer
Bad things can happen to anyone at any time, whether you follow the rules or not.
~ Megan McCafferty
But if all they did was kill time, time would end up killing them.
~ Michael Grant
No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.
~ Michel de Montaigne
One thing I learned a long time ago is that even if you think you're meant to be with someone, that doesn't necessarily mean you get to be with them.
~ Miranda Kenneally
But they wanted you. Time is not something you give back. The very next moment may be answer to your prayer. To deny that is to deny the most important part of the future.
~ Mitch Albom
when your time came, it came, and that was that. You might say something smart on your way out, but you might just as easily say something stupid.
~ Mitch Albom
Now it's time for India to steer ourselves, ride the waves and decide on our direction, destination and speed.
~ Narendra Modi
Luck is being in the right place at the right time, but location and timing are to some extent under our control.
~ Natasha Josefowitz
It's not the good that die young, it's the lucky.
~ Mark Twain
I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.
~ Mark Twain
What God wills, will happen; thou canst not hurry it, thou canst not alter it; therefore wait; and be patient
~ Mark Twain
The first most important day of you life is the day you were born. The second is when you discover why.
~ Mark Twain
It's the same here as it is on earth—you've got to earn a thing, square and honest, before you enjoy it.  You can't enjoy first and earn afterwards.  But there's this difference, here: you can choose your own occupation, and all the powers of heaven will be put forth to help you make a success of it, if you do your level best.  The shoe-maker on earth that had the soul of a poet in him won't have to make shoes here.
~ Mark Twain
The two most important days in your life are the day you are born an the day you find out why.
~ Mark Twain
Prov'dence don't fire no blank ca'tridges, boys.
~ Mark Twain
B?rak?n ac?mas?z hayat elinden geleni ard?na koymas?n; tek bildiÄŸim ÅŸudur ki... benim için de bir yerlerde bir mezar vard?r.
~ Mark Twain
Los dos días más importantes de tu vida son el día en que naces y el día en que descubres para qué
~ Mark Twain
Cele mai importante dou? zile din viaÈ›a ta sunt ziua în care te-ai n?scut È™i cea în care afli de ce.
~ Mark Twain
Así, pues, le dije: —Ya sabes, Tom, que no sirvo ni para limpiarte los zapatos. Pero no importa: Dios todopoderoso nos ha creado a todos y a unos los ha dejado ciegos mientras que a otros les ha dado los ojos para verlo todo. Me parece que yo no figuro entre estos últimos; pero sin duda está bien así, puesto que es Dios quien lo ha querido.
~ Mark Twain
God Almighty made us all, and some He gives eyes that's blind, and some He gives eyes that can see, and I reckon it ain't none of our lookout what He done it for; it's all right, or He'd 'a' fixed it some other way.
~ Mark Twain
Scientists estimate the universe unfolded from its state of infinite destiny* - a moment commonly referred to as the big bang - approximately 1.3-2 x 10^10 years ago. *Typo: destiny should read density.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
Stars to live by. Stars to steer by. Stars to die by.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski