Quotes About Destiny

Had things turned out differently, I might have amused myself with a series of heart-wretched lovers. I might have dallied with brilliant men. I might have married.

Why do we need time travel? All the answers come down to one. To elude death.

Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony." The Black Company pg 447

Yes. He argued that we are the gods, that we create our own destiny. That what we are determines what will become of us. In a peasantlike vernacular, we all paint ourselves into corners from which there is no escape simply by being ourselves and interacting with other selves.

Fate is a fickle bitch who dotes on irony.

Gracias por haberme hecho ser humano, podías haberme hecho rana o vaso, y habría que verme de rana gorda y cantando, o vaso de vidrio barato. Podías haberme hecho nube de paso o triste tortuga o lagarto y me hiciste poeta y despacio. Gracias por no haberme hecho legionario. Y además gracias por no soltarme de tu mano.

We are given our place in time as we are given our eyes: weak, strong, clear, squinting, the thing is not ours to choose. Well, this has been a squinting, walleyed time to be born in.

I wanted to be a politician and a movie star. But I was born a writer. If you're born that, you can't change it. You're going to do it whether you want to or not.

All things turn out ill, in the end. But that is the ill nature of things, to end.

Sollte die Freiheit zu streben, die uns die Götter in allen Umständen des Lebens gelassen haben, sollte diese ein Mensch dem andern verkümmern können?

Impossible? the goldfish man said. Don't you see? Even fates written in the Book of Fortunes can be changed. How can anything be impossible?

It's all going the way it's supposed to be going Otherwise, it would be going some other way." —SANDY HARPER, 1978

When people are not empowered to discover their identity and pursue their destiny in Christ, then they are not being discipled but used. They are not sons being fathered, but servants being given a job to do.

There is some prophecy, however, that is unconditional. It depends solely on God himself for fulfillment. Normally it relates to the overview of his plans and purposes for mankind as a whole.

I wished I had been able to make her look that way, but it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.

There is an old legend that somewhere in the world every man has his double.

It seemed after all that one never really missed a thing. To be a human being one had to drink the cup. If one were lucky on one day, or cowardly on another, it was presented on a third occasion.

it is the destiny of a lover to watch unhappiness hardening like a cast around his mistress.

But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.

Everyday life seems so permanent and unshakable?but, as I was reminded by these writers, it can be destroyed by a single phone call.

at root, what unites us are our unproven irrational beliefs of one kind or another of non-material dimensions of reality, inhabited by incorporeal beings that interact with us and frame our destiny in mysterious ways

at root, what unites us are our unproven irrational beliefs of one kind or another in non-material dimensions of reality, inhabited by incorporeal beings that interact with us and frame our destiny in mysterious ways.

John Woo's The Crossing.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.