Quotes About Destiny

El resto de nosotros, es decir, los seres anónimos, parecemos ser en el mejor de los casos objetos de la historia sin saberlo, peones de una partida de ajedrez que se desplazan hacia delante, se dejan en su sitio, se sacrifican o son abatidos y cuya vida, si es que la tienen, transcurre en un mundo totalmente distinto, sin la más mínima relación con lo que les sucede sobre el tablero de ajedrez que ocupan.

If the past can't be changed, and the future's already written; what's the point in living?

Må andra lyssna till tal om blommor och solsken, men för mig väljer jag de mörka nätterna, fulla av syner och äventyr, för mig de hårda ödena, för mig förvildade hjärtans sorguppfyllda lidelser.

Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny?

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Luck never made a man wise.

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

It was strange having so much knowledge at once and having so little power to direct her own fate. But she listened, she watched, and she learned.

You'll soon learn most of our stories are quite the same, James. I'm sure you'll find all of us are either running away from or running to something.

You're running toward your fate, a better life, and you still have it all before you. You get to choose the sort of man you want to be. It's your choice, James, no one else's.

What can I do? I have no talents. I refuse to cripple myself for ninety roubles... Well, all right, so I'll eat two thousand hamburgers in my lifetime. Wear out twenty-five dark-grey suits. Leaf through seven hundred issues of the local newspaper. And die without scratching the earth's surface. Is that it? ... I'd rather live only a minute, but live it right! (Fred Kolesnikov)

The past is not important. The present is inconsequential. The future is indeterminate. He

Je l' ti znaš šta je to? Biti osu?en na ljubav? "Ali zar to nije uvijek?" Svetlana ?ak zadrhta od negodovanja. "Kada se dvoje vole, kada se pronalaze me?u tisu?ama, milijunima... To je uvijek sudbina!

The sky's not for us. We weren't meant to fly. All we can do is try not to fall.

There is an awful feeling of inevitability to life. Maybe this feeling is some proof of the existence of fate... or more likely it's simply the way our brains function that gives us this illusion. It's hard to say for certain.

The prophecy is clear, Your Highness. The Messiah shall topple all the kingdoms of the world. Even yours.

Every woman before her has been a promise unfulfilled.

Our lives are lived with the illusion of control and then there are moments rare as wisdom when we abandon the pretense that we are masters of our fate.

When, after they had long sojourned in Spain, they heard of Ireland (perhaps from Phoenician traders) and took it to be the Isle of Destiny, foretold for them by Moses, their leader was Miled or Milesius, whose wife also was a Pharaoh's daughter, and named Scota.

Miled having died in Spain, his eight sons, with their mother, Scota, their families and followers, at length set out on their venturous voyage to their Isle of Destiny.

it makes no difference where you came from, if you know where you want to go.

We control with our own minds most everything in our lives, including our health, our careers, our relationships, and our futures

Destiny is that grand orchestra on whose melodies dance the steps of our life