Fate pulls you in different directions

When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports…

— Anonymous

My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a…

— Roger Craig Smith

Early on I was very involved with the notion of the painting as an object and tended to attack that idea from different directions.

— Jasper Johns

People pray in one direction but they walk in a different direction, and direction always determines where we end up.

— Andy Stanley

I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening…

— Rae Armantrout

You can't choose what stays and what stays away.

— Florence Welch

“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.”

— Idries Shah

God's plans are never beyond your reach, sometimes you just have to move closer.

— Justin Lee Riner

We make our fortunes and we call them fate.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I AM ALL ABOUT SELF-DETERMINATION. Will. Control. I determine my path in life. I decide my failures and successes. Screw fate. Destiny can kiss…

— Emma Chase

“I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves…

— Jennifer Elisabeth

Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.]

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“Fate and future both are servant to the determined, for they are nothing but creation of human determination.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the…

— Stephen King

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my…

— Aldous Huxley