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Quotes About Destiny

Everything happens for a reason - I'm a believer of that for sure.
~ Katarina Johnson-Thompson
I'm a believer everything happens for a reason.
~ Brandon Ingram
I have always had complete faith in the Almighty. But there are times when I question His actions. I do that very rarely, because I am an absolute believer in destiny.
~ Rekha
I am one of those who believes that God does have a plan. Whatever that plan, wherever that plan takes me, that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna do it with all my heart.
~ Ron Rivera
The future belongs to God.
~ Lyoto Machida
Future belongs to God and we don't know what's gonna happen.
~ Patricio Freire
All told, thirty-four climbers departed for the summit in the middle of that night. Although we left the Col as members of three distinct expeditions, our fates were already starting to intertwine—and they would become more and more tightly bound with every meter we ascended.
~ Jon Krakauer
TR's capacity on some occasions to stand for equality and for openness and in other contexts to argue that it was the destiny of the Anglo-Saxon peoples to rule the world was a particular example of a more universal American inconsistency.
~ Jon Meacham
Because I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe im moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.
~ Jonathan Ames
We are our choices
~ Jonathan Carroll
What did she die of? The same thing that gets everybody in the end: a combination of circumstances
~ Jonathan Coe
Here I sat down and closed my eyes, tilting my face towards the sun and listening to the gentle lap of the blue water against the rocks. Perhaps it was my destiny, after all, to be always alone: that was the tragic, self-dramatizing thought that came to me, and in some paradoxical way it also brought me a kind of comfort, reconciling me to what seemed, at that moment, to be my essential nature: introverted, melancholy and solitary.
~ Jonathan Coe
The phallic symbolism of his plane, The Spirit of St. Louis, is obvious. Lindbergh, in effect, is trapped inside an enormous penis which carries him onwards to an inevitable destination which cannot be changed. Is this how you feel as a director, trapped inside your own masculinity?
~ Jonathan Coe
Il Paradiso e l'inferno ce li creiamo da soli.
~ Jonathan Franzen
It's approximately the same if you're a Jew," the rabbi said, "although we tend to emphasize that you're a Jew whether you like it or not. It's more a matter of God tracking you down than of you finding God.
~ Jonathan Franzen
There was no arguing with blood.
~ Jonathan Franzen
the entire story is prefigured in that monologue...
~ Jonathan Franzen
She was right for him, he was right for her, but they couldn't find a way to be together.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Flirtation, so effortlessly accomplished. Mention of the train had done it. Train unspecified; they both knew which. They'd ridden together and now shared the ferry, and though a thousand identical to her might have strolled past his Charlottenburg café window in two weeks, the shared destination worked its paltry magic. And both tall. This little was enough to excuse lust as destiny.
~ Jonathan Lethem
There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a single decision. Life and death, hope and despair, victory and failure teeter precariously on the decision made at that moment. These are moments ungoverned by happenstance, untroubled by luck. These are the moments in which a person earns the right to live, or not.
~ Jonathan Maberry
There are moments that define a person's whole life. MOMENTS in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become hinge on a single decision.
~ Jonathan Maberry
It's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It is my great hope that our paths, however long and winding, will cross again.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
In the end I was the clay and she was the sculptor, I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer