Quotes tagged ‘Destiny’

“They would have died anyway, it was their destiny. Just like it was your destiny to be saved by magic.”

— Daniel Cerone, Leo Wyatt, Brian Krause, imdb.com

“Sometimes fate just steps in and deals you a good hand.”

— Quinton Peeples, Bridget Carpenter, Jake Epping, James Franco, imdb.com

“Pablo: Kelly, you need to be careful of revenge. My uncle, he always said, 'Pablito, beware anger, fear revenge." If once you start down that path, forever, it will dominate your destiny. Consume you, it will.' Kelly: Did you just Yoda quote me?”

— Nate Crocker, Pablo Simon Bolivar, Ray Santiago, imdb.com

“Jacquetta: When you married into the Royal House, their customs became yours. You understand that as surely as Edward does. Queen Elizabeth: I don't know what he understands! I only know that the closer he gets to his brothers, the further he feels from me. Truly, mother, we are destined. Ever since…”

— Nicole Taylor, Jacquetta Woodville, Janet McTeer, imdb.com

“Sabrina: Harvey? Harvey: I'm not really sure what this [Soul-stone] is, but something told me I would find the answer here. Sabrina: I think that I just found mine.”

— Dan Berendsen, Sabrina Spellman, Melissa Joan Hart, imdb.com

“John Locke: I'm sorry those things happened to you, Ben. Ben Linus: Those things had to happen to me. That was my destiny. But you'll understand soon enough that there are consequences to being chosen. Because destiny, John...is a fickle bitch.”

— Kyle Pennington, Elizabeth Sarnoff, Ben Linus, Michael Emerson, imdb.com

“I'm gonna let destiny take the wheel, like Jesus supposedly does sometimes.”

— Marc Webb, Rachel Bloom, Aline Brosh McKenna, Rebecca Bunch, Rachel Bloom, imdb.com

“All kinds of things are happening to me. Some I chose, some I didn't. I don't know how to tell one from the other anymore. What I mean is, it feels like everything's been decided in advance—that I'm following a path somebody else has already mapped out for me. It doesn't matter how much I think thin…”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Fate seems to be taking me in some ever stranger directions.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“That things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“If God has positioned us in a certain place, we must leave all the details to Him.”

— Charles F. Stanley, amazon.com

“Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.”

— Fidel Castro, en.wikiquote.org

“I fear them not….I was born to do this.”

— Joan of Arc, indiana.edu

“Fate. Destiny. Luck. The prisons of man. People pass the time, enjoying the choices life provides—coffee or tea, right or left. As if it matters. We are all just spinning on the wheel. There is but one way to keep off the wheel. It's not youth. It's not beauty or true love. I know how to stay off th…”

— John J. Gray, Elsa Mars, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

“Ever since I was a little girl, I knew I was destined for great things. I was going to be somebody. Person of significance. Star of the silver screen, I once thought. But...my dreams became nightmares. Instead of laurels, funeral wreaths. Instead of glory, heh, bitter disappointment. Cruel afflictio…”

— Jessica Sharzer, Constance Langdon, Jessica Lange, imdb.com

“A spectacularly foolish and baseless faith, against enormous odds, that a world you do not control will not take from you the one thing you cannot bear to lose.”

— Khaled Hosseini, amazon.com

“[strains to speak as voice gradually grows softer] Remember, a Jedi's strength flows from the Force. But beware: Anger, fear, aggression—the Dark Side, are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny. Luke...Luke...do not…Do not underestimate the powers of the Empe…”

— Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Yoda, Frank Oz, amazon.com

“I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.”

— Abraham Lincoln, rogerjnorton.com

“I hope when he dies he does become a tree. I hope he's in the middle of the wilderness and he's doing his tree thing. Whatever it is trees do. I know they do alot of work with breezes. And wouldn't it be fantastic if while he was out there just enjoying his treeness. Through the woods a huge, sweaty…”

— Dane Cook, genius.com

“Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it. Human life therefore is infinitely precious.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com