Quotes About Destiny

The fate of every nation rests in its own power.

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Ich war so was wie ein Wunderkind in Sachen Physik und Mathematik, wollte Kernphysiker werden, habe dann aber über den Schriftsteller Hans Henny Jahnn promoviert. Ich habe sämtliche meiner Karrieren zerstört, bevor sie anfingen. Das mache ich immer noch so.

You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey

I should die some day. Had I ever thought of it? I reflected. No, I had never thought of it. I could not. You can no more look destiny in the face than you can look at the sun, and yet destiny is grey.

Sans doute une chute est toujours une chute, mais autre chose est de se laisser choir dans un puits parce qu'on regardait n'importe où ailleurs, autre chose y tomber parce qu'on visait une étoile. C'est bien une étoile que Don Quichotte contemplait.

On tâche à courir plus vite que le temps, quand il est si simple d'attendre qu'il vienne de lui-même se mettre à vos pieds, comme un chien, avec votre destin tout cuit dans sa bonne gueule.

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Destiny has two ways of crushing us - by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling them.

La lucha contra el aburrimiento ha comenzado. No sabemos si el enemigo público será derrotado. Y sin embargo de esta lucha, de este desafío, depende, hasta cierto punto, el destino y sentido de la modernidad.

Et c'était pas un hasard. Je veux dire : on n'était pas là par hasard. On n'avait pas besoin de se le dire pour savoir qu'on était faits du même bois, un bois un peu pourri, mais un beau bois quand même.

A man who walks with God always gets to his destination.

What you are is God's gift to you. What you can become is your gift to Him.

Life is a narrative that you have a hand in writing.

And so, perhaps, I must once again accept what I used to suspect about my birth: that I had been here many times before and would come again regardless of how unhappily, unwillingly, and to exactly this same place.

Intimates are predestined.

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Whatever happens at all happens as it should thou wilt find this true, if thou shouldst watch closely.

I know not if the dark or bright Shall be by lot, If that wherein my hopes delight, be best or not

La via che percorriamo nel tempo è cosparsa dei frammenti di tutto ciò che cominciavamo ad essere, di tutto ciò che avremmo potuto diventare.

The reality is that the Lord never calls the qualified; He qualifies the called.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

Basta por ahora de polémicas, la ciencia no es una mera cuestión de erudición; está integrada al destino absolutamente personal del investigador.

Ahora bien, si hay innovación, esta se sitúa precisamente en este punto. La teología debe ser, o volver a ser, una ciencia de la experiencia, aquella cuyos intereses conciernen directamente al destino de cada persona individual.