Quotes About Destiny

the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

You'll come back To me . . . It's written in the stars, you see, you'll come back. You'll come back, it's a fact that I am strong because I do believe in you.

Sir, Saint-Savin replied, the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.

But chance has a taste for conspiracy.

Çocukluk y?llar?m boyunca, tan??t???m bütün insanlar?n, kaderin bir oyunu olarak, ahmak olduÄŸuna inanm??t?m.

Los dioses ciegan a quienes quieren perder.

Se nace siempre bajo el signo equivocado y vivir con dignidad significa corregir día a día el propio horóscopo.

Throughout our lives, after all, we look for a story of our origins, to tell us why we were born and why we have lived.

Ognuno nasce con un dono, tutto sta nello scoprirlo e nell'avere fortuna di vederlo apprezzato

Now he was passing from the playing space with no role left to play but this last one of dying, that comes to all.

Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all.

it was quite uncanny to watch them, pressing on to their fate, all unsuspicious a very river of death. Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny;

This melodrama differed from others in that it was not written, it was to be played impromptu, and only once; after that it would be precedent, and would determine the destinies of mankind perhaps for centuries. Each of the actors hoped to write it his way, and no living man could say what the dénouement would be.

Lanny Budd was the son and grandson and great-grandson of merchants of death; he had been born and reared and educated on money made by the manufacture and sale of instruments of death; he was flying now in a warplane, upon an errand of war, even though he persuaded himself, as men do, that it was one of peace. He asked himself whether man was doomed because he could not deliver himself from the curse of war.

But they were civilized cats, which had learned manners, and applied psychology, pretending to be gentle and harmless, even amiable. The deadliest killers wore the most cordial smiles; the most cunning were the most dignified, the most exalted. They had a great cause, an historic destiny, a patriotic duty, an inspired leader. They said: "We are building a new Germany," and at the same time they thought: "How can I cut out this fellow's guts?

The probability of a certain set of circumstances coming together in a meaningful (or tragic) way is so low that it simply cannot be considered mere coincidence.

Boy, the only thing to make is the thing without a name.

The real test of a man is not when he plays the role that he wants for himself but when he plays the role destiny has for him.

Where God has gifted us, there is a niche for us to fill. Let's be faithful in looking for it.

You cannot count on the physical proximity of someone you love, all the time. A seed that sprouts at the foot of its parent tree remains stunted until it is transplanted. Rama will be in my care, and he will be quite well. But ultimately, he will leave me too. Every human being, when the time comes, has to depart to seek his fulfillment in his own way.

Nothing could be avoided, and nothing could be foreseen. What was the point of unnecessary fear?

Que poder y claridad hay en la palabra, la palabra libre y desinhibida! La palabra que se pronuncia a pesar de todos los temores. Vida y Destino

No destino da gente do campo de concentração, a semelhança nascia da diferença. Fosse a visão de um passado ligado a um pomar à beira de um poeirento caminho italiano, ou ao marulho sombrio do mar do Norte, ou a um quebra-luz de papel cor de laranja em casa de um chefe local no subúrbio de Bobruisk – todos os presos sem exceção tinham um passado maravilhoso.