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Quotes About Destiny

Thus must the bewildered Wanderer stand, as so many have done, shouting question after question into the Sibyl-cave of Destiny, and receive no Answer but an Echo. It is all a grim howling of wild beasts, or the shrieks of despairing, hate-filled men... (The Everlasting No)
~ Thomas Carlyle Sartor Resartus
If she lived, doubtless we must have been sometimes in search of each other, at the very same moment, through the mighty labyrinths of London; perhaps, even within a few feet of each other - a barrier no wider in a London street, often amounting in the end to a separation for eternity!
~ Thomas de Quincey
Liberty is a gift and power that extends even to the determination of our eternal and self-chosen destiny. This is one reason a single person is of greater worth than the whole of the subhuman cosmos.
~ Thomas Dubay
What is best and most necessary usually happens.
~ Knute Nelson
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
~ Sophocles
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Before we come to a challenging situation, before the universe squeezes us, how much of our effort is geared toward the reason we came to this world? The more focus we have on the front end, the less focus we end up needing on the back end.
~ Yehuda Berg
My future doesn't lie in the hands of Neil Warnock, it's in the hands of Robert Snodgrass.
~ Robert Snodgrass
If there is a heaven, I don't know anything else I can do to get there - and neither do you.
~ Evel Knievel
Although it is true that by fate all things are forced and linked by a necessary and dominant reason, nevertheless the character of our minds is subject to fate in a manner corresponding to their nature and quality.
~ Chrysippus
In Miss Catherine Middleton we have the faintest, intoxicating glimmer of a New Age Cinderella story.
~ Hamish Bowles
The motto is, control our destiny, do new things, where we talk directly with our consumers and aren't dependent on ad revenue.
~ Dave Portnoy
To have the kind of year you want to have, something has to happen that you can't explain why it happened. Something has to happen that you can't coach.
~ Bobby Bowden
No man is truly educated unless he knows where he came from, why he is here, and where he can expect to go in the next life.
~ Ezra Taft Benson
I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn't deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children - eight of them - through college; I did not finish college.
~ Nell Carter
You know, I think in some kinds of ways, we are all born into stuff that gives us no choice.
~ Al Jarreau
There is no doubt that I was blessed with a considerable amount of luck.
~ John Gurdon
There is no doubt in my mind that I was going to do what my father did, but it wasn't kind of a family-business thing.
~ Synyster Gates
No love story ends or begins out of accordance with how it needs to go.
~ Rebecca Serle
Nature deals the cards without thought or care, and there is no point in blaming the dealer. All we can do is make the best of the hands we have been dealt.
~ Julian Baggini
There's no pressure; like Kate said, it is about carving your own future. No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes; what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny, and Kate will do a very good job of that.
~ Prince William
Ma qualunque cosa ci avesse riservato il destino, mi immaginavo sdraiato a letto al suo fianco alla fine della giornata, mentre parlavamo e ridevamo stretti tra le braccia l'uno dell'altra
~ Nicholas Sparks
A veces, nuestro futuro viene impuesto por quienes somos, y no por lo que queremos.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's
~ Nicholas Sparks