Quotes About Destiny

I «destinati a essere morti» non hanno certo gioventù splendenti: ed ecco che essi ti insegnano a non splendere. E tu splendi, invece, Gennariello.

Saya sudah menunjukkan secara panjang lebar dalam La distinction di mana cinta itu juga bisa dideskripsikan sebagai bentuk dari amor fati, bahwa mencintai sampai titik tertentu selalu berarti mencintai seseorang sebagai cara lain untuk memenuhi takdir sosialnya sendiri.

Det är just strukturen hos världens ekonomiska fält som utövar ett strukturellt tvång, vilket ger mekanismen ett sken av ödesbestämdhet.

Pour lui, c'est le destin qui entre en gare. Il est seul au monde, fasciné par le train qui fonce sur lui, qui va quitter les rails, dévorer le quai, l'écraser contre le mur.

Do your duty, and leave the rest to heaven.

Each instant of life is a step toward death.

Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.

Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once you understand that, you understand all. This idea that love overtakes you is nonsense. This is but a polite manifestation of sex. To love another you have to undertake some fragment of their destiny.

When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die - I always wish I had a better answer.

I didn't know Michael Hastings very well, but one thing about him was always obvious - he was born to be in the news business, he loved it, he was made for it. He wrote about Iraq and Afghanistan as places he had always been destined to visit.

I made three visits during my senior year of high school to Duke, UNC, and Virginia. If I hadn't gone to Duke, I would have went to Carolina, just like a lot of Carolina players who, had they not gone there, would have went to Duke.

I immediately recognised that Freddy's vocal chords bore an uncanny resemblance to mine - or vice-versa, I guess - and yeah, the rest is history.

When something is a vocation, you don't really make a decision about it.

I really feel like the first day I went to drama school and I went up on stage, that I found my vocation. It's kind of a cliched thing to say but I really feel like it was what I was meant to do.

I think my father would have become a millionaire if he had grown up in South Korea or the United States... Almost anywhere else, business would have been my father's vocation. But in North Korea, it was simply a means to survive.

Look, on the first day of 'The Jump' we shared a ski lift together. We got to the top and Vogue skied off and I said, jokingly at the time: 'I'm going to marry that girl.' Turns out, I am.

God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.

Without democracy, we are voiceless subjects. But with it, we are citizens armed with the power to change our destinies.

I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

By all means, let's have free trade and no trade barriers and a common market. But where did it all suddenly become about our own economic and political destiny being surrendered to Brussels with agendas that arguably have very little to do with the interests of the British people and British voters?

If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

My marriage will happen when Almighty sends a message.

I just knew I would be a writer. It just seemed the only sensible thing to do.