Quotes About Destiny

Life is a mortal maze...

Luck never gives; it only lends.

And there 's a nice youngster of excellent pith,— Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith.

Chive got you, babe. We're mint to be together.

Some places speak distinctly. Certain dark gardens cry aloud for a murder; certain old houses demand to be haunted; certain coasts are set apart for shipwreck.

When you walk in purpose, you collide with destiny.

William Shakespeare, King Lear

It cannot be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue: but chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands: "Faber quisque fortunæ suæ," saith the poet...

...there is not a man in the world who can tell to-day what he will do to-morrow.

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne; But the One was Me.

plot, the absolute line between two points which I've always despised. Not for literary reasons, but because it takes all hope away. Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

It is described by some as a moment when the world stops moving...it did just that for me. I knew before she said one word or made a single movement, that our lives would begin to dissolve into each other... we would never part again. This was not love at first sight, but rather second. I had fallen in love at eleven; now I was twenty and now all things were possible.

You're right, Mal, you and Erebus both. My father made me for immortality and the galaxy should know of me. Ten thousand years from now I want my name to be known all across the heavens." - Warmaster Horus

What job do you want to do? And I see them all hanging up before me, like clothes on a rack, all the jobs, tinker, tailor, soldier, and you have to pick one and then you have to pretend for the rest of your life that that's what you are. So they aint no different really from accidents of birth. I didn't know that phrase then but I learnt it later. It's a good phrase...

Since the end is never told, We pay the teller off in gold, But he cannot be bought or sold.

Ma perché questo, Efix, dimmi, tu che hai girato il mondo: è da per tutto così? Perché la sorte ci stronca così, come canne? – Sì, – egli disse allora, – siamo proprio come le canne al vento, donna Ester mia. Ecco perché! Siamo canne, e la sorte è il vento.

siamo proprio come le canne al vento, donna Ester mia. Ecco perché! Siamo canne, e la sorte è il vento.

Coincidence is not a word in the vocabulary of believers. 3-28-08

This was her last chance at the closest thing to freedom: her will, her actions, and the outcome in the world could all be in harmony.

It wasn't fate, it wasn't destiny–there was no Will of God, no Force of History to absolve us. It grew out of who we were: the lies we'd told, and would keep on telling.

You cannot see the future. You cannot change the past. All of life consists of running into darkness.

least—God has already made a way in your life. You are the person you are, with the strengths, weaknesses, interests, and passions you have at this moment.