Quotes About Destiny

We're going to make him the best military commander in history. And then put the fate of the world on his shoulders.

Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses.

Who was more cursed, the one who died, unknowing until the very moment of his death, or the one who watched his destruction as it approached, step by step, for days and weeks and years?

We've just got to face the fact that we're second rate. With the fate of humanity in our hands.

Nobody controls his own life, Ender. The best you can do is choose to fill the roles given you by good people, by people who love you.

You've got to do something with your life,' said Mazer. And there it was: The tacit recognition that Ender wasn't going home. That he was never going to lead a normal life on Earth.

Nobody has control of anything," said Petra. "We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!

And it had to be a child, Ender,' said Mazer. 'You were faster than me. Better than me. I was too old and cautious. Any decent person who knows what warfare is can never go into battle with a whole heart. But you didn't know. We made sure you didn't know. You were reckless and brilliant and young. It's what you were born for.

There's a longer view, in which life and death are less important matters than choosing what kind of life and what kind of death we have.

We pray for a messenger from God—who knows but what the messenger also prayed for a place to take his message?

And it might also be that God had nothing to do with it, that it was just the moment that it would have happened anyway, whether she prayed or not.

Life is how God gives purpose to the universe.

God must have so ordained this world, and that gave hope to the righteous no matter how bleak their cause.

Still, it's better to believe that some high purpose guides our steps than to think that nothing matters except our own small miseries and happinesses. - Alai pg.216

The world is a stage and the play is badly cast.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.

As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that.

So with curious eyes and sick surmise We watched him day by day, And wondered if each one of us Would end the self-same way, For none can tell to what red Hell His sightless soul may stray.

It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

Every single human being should be the fulfilment of a prophecy: for every human being should be the realisation of some ideal, either in the mind of God or in the mind of man.

Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts.

Someone or other was going to get torn asunder. And yet why shouldn't they fall in love, if even just for a short while.

Rami said to the audience that all walls were destined to fall, no matter what. He was not so naive, though, to believe that more would not be built. It was a world of walls. Still, it was his job to insert a crack in the one most visible to him.