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Quotes About Destiny

We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
~ Barbara Sher
Many roads to take some to joy some to heart ache
~ Kate Winslet
If I knew I was going to die at a specific moment in the future, it would be nice to be able to control what song I was listening to; this is why I always bring my iPod on airplanes.
~ Chuck Klosterman
Music was born free; and to win freedom is its destiny.
~ Ferruccio Busoni
You look back, and it was important to bring back instrumental music, and it was great to be a part of that wave of instrumental rock music. And clearly it was something I was destined to do.
~ Stuart Hamm
I long for the day my sisters will rise, and occupy the sphere to which they are called by their high nature and destiny.
~ Lucretia Mott
Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
~ Democritus
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
~ Albert Einstein
It has been said repeatedly that one can never, try as he will, get around to the front of the universe. Man is destined to see only its far side, to realize nature only in retreat.
~ Loren Eiseley
Man must understand his universe in order to understand his destiny.
~ Neil Armstrong
I will walk where my own nature would be leading.
~ Emily Bronte
Nature of man is not what he was born as, but what he is born for.
~ Aristotle
When you don't follow your nature there is a hole in the universe where you were supposed to be.
~ Dane Rudhyar
A true man never frets about his place in the world, but just slides into it by the gravitation of his nature, and swings there as easily as a star.
~ Edwin Hubbel Chapin
But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls.
~ Edwin Booth
Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it.
~ Swami Vivekananda
You're exactly where you're meant to be, meandering along a crooked path.
~ Martha Beck
It has been asserted that we are destined to know the dark beyond the stars before we comprehend the nature of our own journey.
~ Loren Eiseley
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
~ David Seabury
Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.
~ William Shakespeare
Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.
~ Susan Sontag
In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.
~ Madame de Stael
Destiny is our will, and our will is nature.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man
~ Saint Augustine