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Quotes About Destiny

apparently they go with the billet.
~ Gerald Brittle
How I envy you your ability to be inarticulate in the face of Fate.
~ Gerald Durrell
Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
~ Gerald Vizenor
For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.
~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
If the nose of Cleopatra had been shorter, the whole face of the earth would have been changed.
~ Pascal
Whom Jupiter would destroy he first drives mad.
~ Sophocles
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box.
~ Italian proverb
'Tis man's to fight, but Heaven's to give success.
~ Homer
Failure and success seem to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star or against it, and in the whole universe the only really interesting movement is this wriggle.
~ E. M. Forster
The ides of March are come.
~ William Shakespeare
Someday the sun is going to shine down on me in some faraway place.
~ Mahalia Jackson
A plague o' both your houses.
~ William Shakespeare
Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.
~ Alcmaeon
The great thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
~ Ancient Buddhist proverb
Hope says to us constantly, "go on, go on," and leads us to the grave.
~ Anonymous
To bear is to conquer our fate.
~ Thomas Campbell
He turns not back who is bound to a star.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Noble blood is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great.
~ Carlo Goldoni
If the nose of Cleopatra had been a little shorter the whole face of the world would have been changed.
~ Pascal
No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
~ Euripides
We create our fate every day we live.
~ Henry Miller
To accomplish our destiny ... we must cover before nightfall the distance assigned to each of us.
~ Dr. Alexis Carrel
Come what may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
~ William Shakespeare