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Quotes About Destiny

In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory.
~ Cadmus M. Wilcox
One of the most important factors in life, politics and war, to which historians tend to devote too little attention, is sheer luck, good or ill.
~ Robert Rhodes James
Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.
~ Homer
What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?
~ Jean Racine
The science of weapons and war has made us all one world and one human race with one common destiny.
~ John F. Kennedy
I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?
~ Malachy McCourt
Those are the men, ' added Bolkonsky with a sigh which he could not suppress, as they went out of the palace, 'those are the men who decide the fate of nations.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Anything Freed with Guns will Go Back Eventually.
~ Vineet Raj Kapoor
You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.
~ Pierce Brown, Red Rising
Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
the main thing is to make history not to write it
~ Otto von Bismarck
Trouble cannot be avoided, you either go looking for it or it will come looking for you.
~ Constance Friday
He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
~ Dave Malloy
Laugh not at the dead, for the corpse at your feet is prophetic of your own destiny.
~ Mamur Mustapha
Come forth, Paladins!Fulfill your destiny!
~ Andry Chang, Sang Pemburu
We were not destined to survive. The fact is, we were not destined at all. The war would take what it could get.
~ Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds
Every man engaged in war tells himself he can alter what has been written, that it is he, not God, who is the maker of destiny, free to change what is meant to be.
~ Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeepers
In the end, it all comes down to the Blood...
~ Nathan Walsh
Chance created the situation
~ genius made use of it.
I sense that you are nearby, son and daughter of the Almari bloodline. I will soon come for you both.
~ Eric Mrozek, Destruction
She is your treasure, she must have a husband; I must dance bare-foot on her wedding day, And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell.
~ William Shakespeare
you shall tie the marriage knot with the ropemaker's daughter and the cawing of the crows will be your wedding song.
~ Jacob Grimm
No one appears on our stage unless the director has placed them there for our benefit
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Wisdom and peace come when you start living the life the creator intended for you.
~ Geronimo