Quotes About Destiny

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. —Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene III

And you're right, too, it has to wait a little bit of time. At least long enough to get a booking at Ballintubber Abbey." "At . . ." Joy all but drowned her. "You'd marry me there?" "It's what you want, isn't it? And by God, it seems it's what I want as well. There, in the ancient and holy place. It's what's meant for us.

On the other hand, if there is no God, then your life ultimately means nothing. Since there is no enduring purpose to life, there's no right or wrong way to live it. And it doesn't matter how you live or what you believe—your destiny is dust.

They were still so young they hadn't learned to count the odds and to sense they might owe the universe a tragedy.

The last girl I love will be someone I haven't even met yet, probably.

But here's the thing: He didn't get hung. The man climbed on a wooden watercraft and collided with North America by accident. It doesn't matter what happened afterwards or what his motives were. He found it. It happened. He's what history is. It was his destiny to be that particular man, and it was his destiny to do those specific things.

Let's assume it was Christopher Columbus's "destiny" to discover the New World, and let's pretend he was consciously aware of that fact. What possible difference would that have made in his day-to-day life? He still had to build the boats.

If you want to know what time it is on God's clock, look at Israel. Understand Israel—it's the only nation that has its origin, history, ups and downs, and destiny all written out in advance for the diligent.

The future is just wasted on some people.

you're doomed at being you.

This is how fast your life can turn around. How the future you have tomorrow won't be the same future you had yesterday.

There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.

Every high school has its Romeo and Juliet, one tragic couple. So does every generation.

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

The lucky ones are just born dead.

It happens fast for some people and slow for some, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated.

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

It happens fast for some people and slow for other, accidents or gravity, but we all end up mutilated

On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero. (Narrator)

They want me to account for my next ten years. Their way, everything in your life turns into an item on a list. Something to accomplish. You get to see how your life looks flattened out. The shortest distance between two points is a timeline, a schedule, a map of your time, the itinerary for the rest of your life. Nothing shows you the straight line from here to death like a list.

El futuro que tendrás mañana no es el mismo futuro que tenías ayer.

On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone will drop to zero.

I want to tell them, stay in the cage. There are bet­ter things than free­dom. There are worse things than liv­ing a long bored life in some stranger's house and then dy­ing and go­ing to ca­nary heav­en.