Tis all a chequer board of nights and days, where destiny…

“Tis all a Checkerboard of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and stays, And…

— Edward FitzGerald

“But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays”

— Edward FitzGerald

“You broke a man today. Doesn't that affect you at all? These are lives, not pieces in a chess game with your uncle.' 'You're…

— S.U. Pacat

'Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and…

— Anonymous

“There comes a time, we know not when, that marks the destiny of men.”

— Joseph Addison Alexander

Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.

— Harriet Rosenstein

“Activity becomes process. Choices become destiny. Men then live in the world they themselves have made as if they were fated to do so…

— Peter L. Berger

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

— Florence Welch

“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?”

— Pat Shand

There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob…

— Tom Robbins

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

— Christoph Martin Wieland

“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

“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Anatomy is destiny.

— Sigmund Freud

... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this.

— Anonymous