Quotes About Destiny

Miss Pinch came visiting, and asked me what I intended to do with my Future. She spoke about it as though it were an incurable disease.

The future is not fixed unless we allow it to be so.

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map.

If time is a river then we shall all meet death by water.

Be confident even in your mistakes. In Allah there is no wrong road. There is only the road you must travel.

Be confident, he advised me. 'Be confident even in your mistakes. In Allah there is no wrong road. There is only the road you must travel' 'And if the road leads nowhere?' He shrugged. 'Turn your Nowhere into Somewhere.

I keep seeing my life darting off in the different directions it could have taken, as chance and circumstance, temperament and desire, open and close, open and close gates, routes, roadways. And yet there feels like an inevitability to who I am--just as of all the planets in all the universes, planet blue, this planet Earth, is the one that is home.

History has had you - and me too. My hand has brushed against yours for centuries.

Biology is destiny if you work for the patriarchy.

The future id foretold from the past and the future is only possible because of the past. Without past and future, the present is partial.

When I was born, I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first first coordinate. There is a lot you can't change when you are kid. But you can pack for the journey.

A born king is a very rare being.

Todo hombre nacido en la esclavitud, nace para la esclavitud; nada

Todo hombre nacido en la esclavitud, nace para la esclavitud; nada más cierto.

Ä°yilik etmek, insan yüreÄŸinin duyabileceÄŸi mutluluklar?n en gerçeÄŸidir. Yazg?ma egemen olanlar bana her ÅŸeyin yalan ve aldat?c? görünmesine özen gösterdikleri için, herhangi bir erdem konusu, beni düÅŸürmek istedikleri tuzaÄŸa çekmeye yarayan bir hileden baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

He was freer and less constrained in the womb; he has gained nothing by birth.

I try to remind myself that we are never promised anything, and that what control we can exert is not over the events that befall us but how we address ourselves to them.

God deals us all different hands. How we play 'em is up to us.

Sometimes it didn't matter how much gumption you had. What mattered were the cards you'd been dealt.

Ils croyaient qu'un jour ou l'autre, cela arriverait, parce qu'ils avaient attendu toute une vie pour cela et qu'ils pensaient le mériter. Muss es sein? Es muss sein.

People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing.

I do not feel that I am the product of chance, a speck of dust in the universe, but someone who was expected, prepared, prefigured. In short, a being whom only a Creator could put here; and this idea of a creating hand refers to God.

I met your father last week. Are you still interested in hearing how he is doing? Hugo: No. Karsky: It is very probable that you will be responsible for his death. Hugo: It is virtually certain that he is responsible for my life. We are even.

No doctrine is more optimistic [than existentialism], since it declares that man's destiny lies within himself.