destiny Quotes

All that spirits desire, spirits attain.

It's an important point to realize that the genetic programming of our lives is not fully deterministic. It is statistical - it is in any animal merely statistical - not deterministic.

My decision to be a scientist was a bit of a drift really, more or less by default.

We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.

Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.

The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.

From my childhood I had been intended for the clergy. This prospect hung like a dark cloud on my mind.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.