People with destinies shouldn't make plans.

“Are we all just lightning rods for other people's destinies? Is that what it's all about”

— Anthony McDonald

People's destinies are so different. Some people drag along, unnoticed and boring—they're all alike, and they're all unhappy. Then there are others, like for…

— Anton Chekhov

I've never been one to make plans, because I never wanted to disappoint myself.

— Rebecca Romijn

We have hopes and make plans, and if they are dashed or waylaid, we naturally rationalize and redraw the map to locate ourselves anew.…

— Chang-Rae Lee

“Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)”

— Terentianus Maurus

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

— Voltaire

“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

“And like that, our destinies snap together.”

— Tessa Gratton

“None of us decide what we will be born into in this life, but we face our destinies with what we have been given.”

— Bonnie Erina Wheeler

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.

— Leif Enger

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and…

— Jonathan Evison

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

— David Clement-Davies

We are the authors of our destinies. No one can see the vision any clearer, believe in and work any harder to make it…

— Anonymous

In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations…

— Cyrus Vance

“It's a new world, sweetie. We build our own destinies.”

— Pat Shand