Quotes About Destiny

I know what I have to do. I have to protect my family in the only way that they can be protected right now. I have to play the part I was meant to play. I have to be the person the Underground tried to Fade me into being.", Celestra Caine from FADE by Kailin Gow

We'll make a hero of you yet, young villain!

If the greatest loss of his life is the loss of a dream he's always known to be a dream, then he's among the fortunate ones.

All the wrong choices he made, they were necessary to get him to the right place, the place he is now.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I am not the kind of goddess of victory that people cheer for. I am merely a marionette who is fighting to cut off her own strings. At my feet is a hill covered in skeletons...I am nothing but an angel of death.

Rather than finding the thing that you can imagine yourself becoming, find the thing that you simply cannot imagine yourself Not Becoming.

Success and failure are ideas that will only serve as a burden to your quest. Rather than finding the thing that you can imagine yourself becoming, find the thing that you simply cannot imagine yourself Not Becoming.

M: Man lives in a world whose noise is so wide and deep that it requires either an extraordinary DNA or a cataclysmic chance occurrence for him to turn away from the noise and seek The Truth. It is almost impossible for him to deem that all that he has been told for his entire life and all that he hears on a daily basis is completely false and full of lies. Monumentally rare are such men. But this is the only way. For without it, one is destined to a life of misery, turmoil, and anxiety.

All is one. Don't let me forget this, don't let the bastards divide me again. Our tragedy is fragmentation. It begins as a state of mind and ends up as destiny. It is the tragedy of our family of nations who hobble across this great peninsula, this exquisitely set Earth, like an army of blind soldiers a thousand years old looking for a place to rest. Let them rest. Forgive them, forgive me, forgive us. Our fear drove us insane and melancholy.

Well, just remember this. When my ma got me, she picked what she wanted. But when your ma got you, she had to take what she got.

They never found Captain Henry, but Samuel finally got his answer from Belle: Yes, she said, she would be his wife. She believed that God had intended them to "meet and love," and that He had purposely sent her a Yankee, a Union boy from Brooklyn. "Women," she reasoned, "can sometimes work wonders; and may not he, who is of Northern birth, come by degrees to love, for my sake, the ill-used South?

The destiny of the Latino community is interwoven with the destiny of the United States.

My intuition always guides me to the right place.

I believe that the people of Israel are the chosen people of God.

Some people are born with a caul. I was born with a jacket.

I remember, in 2009, I had said in an interview, 'who knows I might work with Jackie Chan one day.' Seven years later I actually did.

In my 33rd year, I was called to play Jesus.

Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

I joined the Army out of a deep sense of duty, but wanting to be an astronaut feels more like my destiny.

A child, when orphaned, can become anything. If I had not joined the Army, who knows, I may have become a dacoit. I give all credit to the Army; they found Milkha Singh.

The hoary joke in the literary world, based on 'Dreams From My Father,' was that if things had worked out differently for Barack Obama, he could have made it as a writer.

I don't believe in acting teachers for me, so it's God's joke that he gave me a best friend who's an acting teacher.