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Quotes About Destiny

In the queer mess of human destiny the determining factor is luck.
~ William E. Woodward
No writer should minimize the factor that affects everyone but is beyond control: luck.
~ John Jakes
Everything that happened to me happened by mistake. I don't believe in fate. It's luck timing and accident.
~ Merv Griffin
Destiny is the invention of the cowardly and the resigned.
~ Ignazio Silone
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares she never gives them. In some form or other we pay for her favors or we go empty away.
~ Amelia Barr
They who await no gifts from chance have conquered fate.
~ Matthew Arnold
The worst cynicism a belief in luck.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
It is a madness to make fortune the mistress of events because in herself she is nothing but is ruled by prudence.
~ John Dryden
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
~ Johann von Goethe
Go and wake up your luck.
~ Persian Proverb
We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.
~ Henry Miller
Of course fortune has its part in human affairs but conduct is really much more important.
~ Jeanne Detourbey
The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you.
~ Rumi
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
~ Jane Austen
All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage.
~ Lord Byron
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.
~ Albert Camus
Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.
~ William Shakespeare
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
~ Henry Adams
Marriage is destinie, made in heaven.
~ John Lyly
Every person is born with a seed of greatness.
~ Myles Munroe
All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.
~ Robert Byron
Just start off with the same goals in mind. If you have the same values, same goals then you'll be on track for the same future.
~ Angelina Jolie
for every marriage that is made in Heaven, there is a marriage made in Hell.
~ Phyllis Chesler
In the end maybe what marriage offered was the determination of one's burial site.
~ Jane Hamilton