Quotes About Destiny

Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

Whether as a historian or as a believer, the diligent student of this first-century Jew from Nazareth is confronted with a man who fits no conventional religious categories.1 It quickly becomes clear why the Gospel writers (most notably John) and Christians in the next several centuries came to the conviction that Jesus was the unique God-man who made salvation available for all, but who required a response from every person, on which his or her eternal destiny would hinge.

Most of us are lucky not to be Kings and Heroes, because we do not have to make the choices that Kings and Heroes have to make.

The world will need a Hero, and it might as well be you.

You can Cheat a Dragon's Curse. You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup. But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.

Isn't Fate artistic?

You do not have to accept the hand that Fate has dealt you.

I wonder," said Crusher slowly, "if the fate of human beings is predetermined by the stars, or do they forge their own destiny? Is there really such a thing as 'luck'? And what exactly do we mean by the concept of 'free will'?" Which were all interesting questions, but perhaps not entirely helpful right at that particular moment.

I didn't mean to come here, And I didn't mean to stay, It's just where the sea wind blew me, One accidental day. ... It wasn't where I meant to be, And it wasn't where I had my start, But now I'll never leave these rain-soaked bogs Because Berk is where I left my heart!

You do not have to accept he hand that fate has dealt you

Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.

People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be, will be. The rest of us know better.

somewhere, waiting for you. Nothing is ever lost.

He guessed he wouldn't mind being a book. Books just did what they were made to do, like stars just shining out in case anyone cared to look.

Orien might easily have been a different kind of man, living as he had, Birle thought.

A rune for the very bored: when very bored say to yourself: It was during the next twenty minutes that there occurred one of those tiny incidents which revolutionizes the whole course of our life and alter the face of history. Truly we are the playthings of enormous fates.

Then a learning jumps to mind, that once you plan to do something, and figure how long it'll take, that's exactly how long Fate gives you before the next thing comes along to do.

If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

Man is a mistake. He must go.

It is not who begets us, that matters, but where fate places us.

Always these arrangements! Always one's life arranged for one! Wheels that worked one and drove one, and over which one had no real control!

Give me the child of any healthy, normally intelligent man, and I will make a perfectly competent Chatterley of him. It is not who begets us, that matters, but where fate places us. Place any child among the ruling classes, and he will grow up, to his own extent, a ruler. Put kings' and dukes' children among the masses, and they'll be little plebeians, mass products. It is the overwhelming pressure of environment.