Quotes About Destiny

O you who turn the wheel and look to windward, 320 Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.

We wait, we wait, And the saints and martyrs wait, for those who shall be martyrs and saints. Destiny waits in the hand of God, shaping the still unshapen: I have seen these things in a shaft of sunlight. Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen Who do, some well, some ill, planning and guessing, Having their aims which turn in their hands in the pattern of time.

No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;

You did not intend this, I did not intend it, No one intended, but . . . You must go.

Who is the third who walks always beside you?

Why should they wait until I came back to Wishwood? There were a thousand places where I might have met them! Why here? why here? Many happy returns of the day, mother.

We most of us seem to live according to circumstance, But with people like him, there's something inside them That accounts for what happens to them.

A curse is a power Not subject to reason Each curse has its course Its own way of expiation Follow follow

To be a 'ruined man' is itself a vocation.

All this was a long time ago, I remember, And I would do it again, but set down This set down This: were we led all that way for Birth or Death?

But I thought I might escape from one life to another, And it may be all one life, with no escape.

What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened.

Fight and live, fight and die, God waits for all.

Go now—return to the land of the living, if you can. You will not receive such a gift a second time.

Thank you, Duke," the troll said seriously. "May your god be blessing us indeed. We go into unknown places." "As do all mortals," Josua added. "Sooner or later.

The Berbers believe that when people are born, they are born with a story inside them, locked in their heart. It looks after them, protects them." Dr. Mehdi flicked the hood of his jelaba down onto his neck and sipped his coffee. "Their task is to search for their

A deed--who measures it? Who knows the limits of a mended wheel or reckons up the leagues it shall lay underfoot?--what burdens it shall bear?--whose destiny it shall await and serve?

Your place in life you can always change, whether you have the gift or not. But you cannot change what the gods have made you. The sooner you accept that, the happier you'll be.

The Chamber is only a room, though a magical one, and you will enter it when the time comes. Duke Roger is only a man, for all he wields sorcery. He can be met and defeated. But you, my daughter - learn to love. You have been given a hard road to walk. Love will ease it. Much depends on you, Alanna of Trebond. Do not fail me! - The Goddess

The god touched me once, Beka. I'd soon not get his attention again.

You have a destiny. You aren't allowed to know it.

The gods cannot reveal all things; otherwise, where is men's right to choose their fates? Where is your right to choose?

We are what we're made to be.

The gods like to make a man feel unprepared, so the wisewoment say