Destined Quotes - Page 7

• Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

  Alyson Noel

  Rivals, Incredibles, Creation

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• The Old Language really was beautiful, Blay thought. Staring at the symbols, for one brief, ridiculous moment he imagined his own name across Qhuinn's shoulders, carved into that smooth skin in the manner of the mating ritual. Never going to happen. They were destined to be best friends...which, compared to strangers, was something huge. Compared to lovers? It was the cold side of a locked door.

  J.R. Ward

  Beautiful, Doors, Names

  J.R. Ward (2010). “Lover Mine: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.28, Penguin

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• Apparently, this really was Kill Charley Davidson Week. Or at least Horribly Maim Her.... It would probably never get government recognition, though, destined to be underappreciated like Halloween or Thesaurus Day.

  Darynda Jones

  Halloween, Government, Recognition

  Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.239, St. Martin's Press

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• some angels are destined to fall

  Lauren Kate

  Fall, Angel

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Lauren Kate: Fallen & Torment”, p.3, Random House

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• I guess I'm destined to be loveless

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Loveless

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• All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction. So now, my friends, if that is true, and it is true, what is the point?

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Age, Genius

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• My mom says I'm destined to be the sort of man who uses big words but pronounces them incorrectly.

  Karen Russell

  Mom, Men, Use

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• Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.

  Loren Eiseley

  Born, Millions, Impossibility

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Unexpected Universe: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.37, Library of America

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• But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Believe, Symphony

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.17, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• Every artist would like to live in the central organ of creation... Not all are destined to get there... but our beating hearts drive us deep down, right into the pit of creation.

  Paul Klee

  Heart, Artist, Desire

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• Everything I touch seems destined to turn into something mean and farcical.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Mean, Destiny, Turns

  Henrik Ibsen, James Walter McFarlane, Graham Orton (1966). “The Oxford Ibsen: The lady from the sea. Hedda Gabler. The master builder”

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• There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Love Is, Effort

  Henry David Thoreau (2011). “The Journal of Henry David Thoreau, 1837-1861”, p.110, New York Review of Books

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• When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

  Edward Carpenter

  Father, Philosophy, Long

  Edward Carpenter (1916). “My days and dreams: being autobiographical notes”

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• If consumers don't have the wherewithal to spend because all the money's going to the top, and the people at the top only spend a very small fraction of what they earn, then the economy is almost inevitably destined to slow.

  Robert Reich

  People, Economy, Fractions

  "Why Robert Reich cares so passionately about economic inequality". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 15, 2013.

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• This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Destiny, Association

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• Coaching is destined to be the leadership approach of the 21st century.

  James A. Belasco

  Coaching, Century, Approach

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• Father, I am from a different egg than your other children. Think of me as a duckling raised by hens. I am not a domestic bird destined to spend his life in a chicken coop. the water that scares you rejuvenates me. For unlike you I can swim, and swim I shall. The ocean is my homeland. If you are with me, come to the ocean. If not, stop interfering with me and go back to the chicken coop.

  Elif Safak

  Children, Father, Ocean

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• The award is destined for scientists who do not fear to touch on some of the darkest aspects of being without betraying what they have achieved. On the contrary, they head in this direction.

  Vaclav Havel

  Betrayal, Awards, Scientist

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• If you want to know whether you are destined to be a success or a failure in life, you can easily find out. The test is simple and it is infallible: Are you able to save money? If not, drop out. You will lose. You may think not, but you will lose as sure as you live. The seed of success is not in you.

  James J. Hill

  Simple, Thinking, May

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• Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all delight, all love, And judgment cease to wage unnatural war With passion's unsubduable array.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Spring, War, Passion

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats (1832). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley and Keats: Complete in One Volume”, p.361

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• Every nation is destined, by the law of God and humanity, to form a free and equal community of brothers.

  Giuseppe Mazzini

  Brother, Law, Community

  Giuseppe Mazzini (1872). “Joseph Mazzini His Life, Writings, and Political Principles”, p.64

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• The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy æther knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Love Is, Earth, Holy

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• Maybe I was destined to forever fall in love with people I couldn’t have. Maybe there’s a whole assortment of impossible people waiting for me to find them. Waiting to make me feel the same impossibility over and over again.

  Carol Rifka Brunt

  Falling In Love, Unrequited Love, People

  Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.347, Pan Macmillan

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• If you are an inventor, then you are destined for blood, sweat and tears.

  Gary Gygax

  Blood, Sweat, Tears

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• I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Ideas, Trying, Attention

  "Angelina Jolie". Interview with Clint Eastwood, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 27, 2011.

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