Destiny Quote by Jhumpa Lahiri Download Open image ““Most people trusted in the future, assuming that their preferred version of it would unfold.”” — Jhumpa Lahiri ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destiny Fate Future People Trust Time Trust
“Perhaps the most crucial choice we make in life is who to trust.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
“No one knows for sure about the future. But if you feel reluctant to plan something about it, then someone with guts would define… — Toba Beta [Betelgeuse Incident Copy Share Image
“I was just thinking that people who trust are usually trustworthy, and they tend to project that quality onto others.” — Ann Shulgin Copy Share Image
“What lies ahead seems unlikely; when it becomes the past, it seems inevitable.” — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“I wonder if they'll be able to resist. It's not exactly easy to save things for the future when the present is so uncertain.” — Ally Condie Copy Share Image
“We may believe the past is what matters most to us, but really, it is the present and the future. It is hope that… — Sara C. Roethle Copy Share Image
“Trust is a choice. Actually, trust is more of a desperate, hopeful guess based on limited information.” — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
“The future was generic and uninteresting to them. It was just what followed after they had done what they wanted to do.” — Rick Gavin Copy Share Image
“You can trust him to do what he says, a trait which becomes increasingly rare.” — Tracy Guzeman Copy Share Image
“Assured by his grades and his apparent indifference to girls, his parents don't suspect Gogol of being, in his own fumbling way, an American… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
...that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
If I stop to think about fans, or best-selling, or not best-selling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“This tradition doesn't exist for Bengalis, naming a son after father or grandfather, a daughter after mother or grandmother. This sign of respect in… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I wanted to pull away from the things that marked my parents as being different. — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Ashoke suspects that Mrs. Jones (the secretary at his new job as a professor) ...is about his own mother's age. Mrs. Jones leads a… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
But she has gathered that Americans, in spite of their public declarations of affection, in spite of their miniskirts and bikinis, in spite of… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
The sky was different, without color, taut and unforgiving. But the water was the most unforgiving thing, nearly black at times, cold enough, I… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“In those six weeks I regarded her arrival as I would the arrival of a coming month, or season - something inevitable, but meaningless… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights expired. She… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?” — Pat Shand Copy Share Image
“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Destiny is the ordained intention God has sacredly prepared with your name on it.” — John S. Lynch Copy Share Image