Quotes About Destiny

Let me tell you something about Moses," she would say, not with total originality, and be quoted in The New York Times. "He took us forty years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil.

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Chiefly the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Princes are like to heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration but no rest.

No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.

The way of fortune, is like the Milken Way in the sky; which is a meeting or knot of a number of small stars; not seen asunder, but giving light together.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

Keep a clear eye toward life's end. Do not forget your purpose and destiny as God's creature. What you are in his sight is what you are and nothing more. Remember that when you leave this earth, you can take nothing that you have received...but only what you have given; a full heart enriched by honest service, love, sacrifice, and courage.

Man is the future of man.

The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming

Yo ansí, náufrago amante y peregrino, que en borrasca de amor por Lisis muero, sigo insano furor de alto destino.

There's a legend...that says all couples who are meant to marry are connected by an invisible silver cord. The matchmaking gods tie that cord around their ankles at birth, and in time the gods pull those cords tighter and tighter. Slowly, slowly, over the next twenty or thirty or forty years, they draw the couple toward each other until they meet.

Some men acheive insignificance. Others have insignificance thrust upon them.

Humans live best when each has a place to stand, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things and what he may achieve. Destroy the place and you destroy the person.

Each man has many fates. Each choice produces a different path. Each path another choice. So be it. When a man has found his way through the maze of many lifetimes he will find harmony. Or he will remain in chaos lost in the maze. His choice alone determines." Orient

I say, Billy, what's the use in playing croquet when you're doomed? He says, Frankie, what's the use of not playing croquet when you're doomed?

I seem to be defying fate, or am I avoiding it?

"Sun, don't go!" I was awakeat last. "No, go I must, they're callingme.""Who are they?"Rising he said, "Someday you'll know. They're calling to youtoo." Darkly he rose, and then I slept.

Juan Narciso Ucañan went to his fate that Wednesday, and no one even noticed.

America still sees itself as essential and as destiny's instrument. And each splinter group within our culture—left, right, conservative, liberal, religious, secular—sees itself as morally, even "theologically," superior to its rivals. It is not just about politics. It is about being better than one's evil opponent. We don't just disagree, we demonize the "other." And we don't compromise.

You don't choose anything important. It just happens. The only choice you have is if you'll make life's accidents work.

The best is yet to come.