Quotes About Destiny

Another train will come. Why rush? Why worry? Why go crazy? Another train will come. And sure enough, another train going my way was pulling into the station. My bad mood evaporated. I entered the car smiling, certain that there would be more missed trains in my life, more closed doors in my face, but there would always be another train rumbling down the tracks in my direction.

Cats do not walk with people. We just sometimes happen to be going the same way.

Some people fall out of the third floor of a building and end up with nothing more than a black-and-blue mark on their backside. While others take one wrong step on their way down the stairs and wind up with a cast.

Everyone comes to heaven in their own way.

To what extent does anybody control his destiny? Life is very much like falling of the edge of a cliff. You have complete freedom to make all the choices you want to take on your way down. My characters choose to yearn and not lose hope even when the odds are completely against them. It doesn't make the landing at the end of that fall any less painful but, somehow, it helps them keep a little dignity their bone broken body.

Sometimes things happen for a reason...

You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.

It's the set of the sail, and not the gale that determines the way they go.

The first question in the Westminster Shorter Catechism is "What is the chief end of man?" What is the final purpose? What is the main thing about us? Where are we going, and what will we do when we get there? The answer is "To glorify God and enjoy him forever.

We fantasize an archaeological scoop. Meanwhile what we have right before us turns out to be far more useful—a theological probe. Instead of being told what Jeremiah's parents were doing, we are told what his God was doing: "Before I shaped you in the womb, I knew all about you. Before you saw the light of day, I had holy plans for you: A prophet to the nations—that's what I had in mind for you" (Jer 1:5).

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

Mourning Becomes Electra

Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!

Everything does work out in the end, one way or another.

Without having to confine my dreams to the destiny outlined in one's name and the expectations bestowed during one's naming, I was left free to embrace the natural turns of my character and to determine my own future, drawing from the deepest well on unnamed possibilities.

Human affairs are not governed ultimately by historical events, fate, or chance, but by God...Divine purpose moving steadily from beginning to end.

Had Lucky gotten lucky after all?

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Slow but sure moves the might of the gods.

Circumstances rule men and not men rule circumstances.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

The multiverse being released, we always knew that is where 'Loki's story was going to end.

I feel like my life was meant to happen - I was meant to go on this crazy rollercoaster and now I'm releasing pop music, which is what I've always wanted to do.