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Quotes About Destiny

You're in the right place at the right time, and you care enough to do what needs to be done. Sometimes that's enough.
~ Erin Morgenstern
Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays.
~ Euripides
To know the future absolutely it to be trapped into that future absolutely. It collapses time. Present becomes future.
~ Frank Herbert
You may have had countless lives, and many more stretching before you, and what else have you got to do with your time?
~ Frederick Lenz
This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships.
~ Frederick Lenz
Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
In time comes he whom God sends.
~ George Herbert
...spend my time warring and whoring, that's what I was made for.
~ George R. R. Martin
History has an author who fills time and eternity with His purpose.
~ George W. Bush
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.
~ Gore Vidal
Onward and sublime Will ever glide The silent stream of Time, That bears us on its tide.
~ Harvey Rice
Ninety-nine one-hundredths of our lives we are mere hedgers and ditchers, but from time to time we meet with reminders of our destiny.
~ Henry David Thoreau
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.
~ Homer
Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.
~ J. Lynn
Tis human actions paint the chart of time.
~ James Montgomery
I've been looking for you a long time, I just didn't know it. But now I do.
~ James Patterson
So much of our lives depends on accidents of birth, time, and geography. This haunts me. In some lives, few "or"s are possible. The pain of that is behind the second stanza of this poem.
~ Jane Hirshfield
You were in my arms for the first time, and you said my name, 'Tristan.' I answered you: 'Isolde.' Isolde. The world became a word.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes, when you catch someone unaware at just the right time and in just the right light, you can catch sight of what they will be.
~ Jennifer Donnelly
Throughout my career I've always felt like certain things come to me at the right time.
~ Jennifer Lopez
I think there's a million talented people out there, it's just a matter of luck a lot of the time.
~ Joan Cusack
I continue to steward what God has given for me for such a time as this.
~ Jonathan Cain
I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger now and not so dumb.
~ Jonathan Richman