Quotes About Destiny

Was it actually her destiny to go on weaving herself into his life all the rest of her life? Nothing else? Was it just that? She was to be content to weave a steady life with him, all one fabric, but perhaps brocaded with the occasional lower of an adventure. But how could she know what she would feel next year? How could one ever know? How could one say Yes? for years and years? The little yes, gone on a breath! Why should one be pinned down by that butterfly word?

Well, there it was: fated like the rest of things! It was rather awful, but why kick?

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

There were eleven of us. Each more different than the next. All with the same mindset. Things weren't the way they were meant to be. It was our job to make things right. We were the soldiers of Halla. It was time for us to take it back.

A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

Hay una divinidad que forja nuestros fines, por mucho que queramos alterarlos.

El mismo Dios, señor, no se propone juzgar al hombre hasta el fin de sus días

It was the drear destiny of the Poor White South that, deserting its economic class and itself, it became the instrument by which democracy in the nation was done to death, race provincialism deified, and the world delivered to plutocracy. The man who led the way with unconscious paradox was Andrew Johnson.

A belief in humanity is a belief in colored men. If the uplift of mankind must be done by men, then the destinies of this world will rest ultimately in the hands of darker nations.

sometimes when you go looking for what you want, you run right into what you need.

a life we didn't choose, chose us

This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you were going

A life I didn't choose chose me.

Il destino mischia le carte, ma siamo noi a giocare la partita. Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game

You are limited, my friend, in what you can and cannot control, as are we all. If you are to become healthy, you must acknowledge the ineluctability of your brother's course. Acknowledge your limitations in directing it, Dominick. And that will free you. That will help to make you well.

It's just a coincidence, I guess, but just the day before at the dry cleaner's, one of our customers, Mrs. Chudy, said to me- I forget what we were even talking about, but she said, My dear, there are no coincidences. That's just God's way of remaining anonymous. And I was like, to myself not to her, yeah? How do you know? But hey, maybe she's right.

If a book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.

All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

I am to wait, I do not doubt I am to meet you again / I am to see to it that I do not lose you

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.