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Quotes About Destiny

Sometimes the mills of the gods grind too damned fast and we get buried in grist
~ Roger Zelazny
Yes,' it announced then. 'You are the one.' 'The one what?' I said. 'The one I will accompany. You've no objection to a bird of ill omen following you, have you, Corwin?' It chuckled then, and executed a little dance.
~ Roger Zelazny
Corwin," he stated then, "it pleases me more than I can say to see you die not knowing something that means that much for you.
~ Roger Zelazny
I've been waiting for you since the beginning of Time, Corwin." "Must have been a bit tiresome.
~ Roger Zelazny
It is him, Random. Him. That's all.
~ Roger Zelazny
I bowed and blew her a kiss as I stepped forward into Amber, leaving her to clutch at rainbows as I caught hold of Random's shoulder and staggered.
~ Roger Zelazny
Kroon ei muuda selle kandjat automaatselt pistodakindlaks. [Merlin] Aga pärija tuleb võimule suure hulga paha pagasiga. [Suhuy]
~ Roger Zelazny
Jis met?si ? šal?, vengdamas šuns ant kelio, geltono mišr?no, nusususio ir perkarusio. Manekas dirstel?jo pro užpakalin? stikl?, ar gyvulys laimingai per?jo gatv?. J? sutraišk? už j? važiuojantis sunkvežimis.
~ Rohinton Mistry
To induce a collective content for the imagination is always an inhuman undertaking, not only because dreaming essentializes life into destiny, but also because dreams are impoverished, and the alibi of an absence.
~ Roland Barthes
Noah Webster contended that Hamilton's "ambition, pride, and overbearing temper" had destined him "to be the evil genius of this country.
~ Ron Chernow
In waiting for the glorious moment of that first book contract, writers must have giant reservoirs of patience. Yet they must persevere because they don't know the destiny that is being worked out for them. They creep humbly along the ground, without the spacious aerial vision of their lives that would show them the destiny in store for them.
~ Ron Chernow
Rockefeller seemed destined to succeed as much from his fastidious work habits as from innate intelligence.
~ Ron Chernow
Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower. O
~ Lawrence Wright
Science fiction invites the writer to grandly explore alternative worlds and pose questions about meaning and destiny. Inventing plausible new realities is what the genre is all about. One starts from a hypothesis and then builds out the logic, adding detail and incident to give substance to imaginary structures. In that respect, science fiction and theology have much in common.
~ Lawrence Wright
Once you know the end of the story, every part of the story contains that end, and is only a way of reaching it.
~ Leah Stewart
Sooner or later you ended up an orphan. There was no escaping it.
~ Lee Child
Further On Up the Road." Bobby Bland
~ Lee Child
Reacher thought, damn. The vagaries of chance.
~ Lee Child
Sooner or later you ended up an orphan. There was no escaping it. It had happened that
~ Lee Child
I guess she couldn't think of anything to say. But the truth was, I was doing OK at that point. Life was unfolding the same way it always had for everyone. Sooner or later you ended up an orphan. There was no escaping it. It had happened that way for a thousand generations. No point in getting all upset about it.
~ Lee Child
it was a coincidence. No point going over and over it. I was only in Margrave because of a crazy last-minute whim. If I'd taken a minute longer looking at the guy's map, the bus would have been past the cloverleaf and I'd have forgotten all about Margrave.
~ Lee Child
She's a fatalist," I said.
~ Lee Child
If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.
~ Lee Strobel
If every birth is a rebirth, and if every life pays for the previous life, then what were you paying for in your first birth? You
~ Lee Strobel