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Quotes About Destiny

885]   "Brag while you can, Hector. Zeus and Apollo Have given you
~ Homer
But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last.
~ Homer
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~ Homer
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~ Homer
Men—let one of them die, another live, however their luck may run. Let Zeus decide the fates of the men of Troy and men of Argos both, to his deathless heart's content—that is only right.
~ Homer
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~ Homer
Untimely sent; they on the battle plain Unburied lay, a prey to rav'ning dogs, And carrion birds; but so had Jove decreed
~ Homer
Hector...boast while you may. The victory is yours, a gift from Zeus the Son of Cronos and Apollo. They conquered me...Listen to this and ponder it well. You too, I swear it, have not long to live. Already sovran Destiny and Death are very close to you, death at the hands of Achilles, the peerless son of Peleus
~ Homer
for a dream, too, is from Zeus
~ Homer
However, what is done is better left alone, though we resent it still, and we must curb our hearts perforce...as for my death, when Zeus and the other deathless gods appoint it, let it come.
~ Homer
bitch that I am, vicious, scheming- horror to freeze the heart oh how I wish that first day my mother brought me into the light some black whirlwind had rushed me out to the mountains or into the surf where the roaring breakers crash and drag and the waves had swept me off before all this had happened
~ Homer
Oh son of Polybus!" the prince replies
~ Homer
I am the son of a great man. A goddess was my mother. Yet death and inexorable destiny are waiting for me as well.
~ Homer
I too seemed destined to be a man of fortune once and a wild wicked swath I cut, indulged my lust for violence, stalking all on my father and my brothers. Look at me now, And so, I say, let no man ever be lawless all his life, just take in peace what gifts the gods will send.
~ Homer
You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind.
~ Homer
Borneo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Bream
~ Homer
Ama kaç?? yok ecelden, zaman? geldiÄŸinde her insan, en sevgili kullar bile göçüp giderler bu dünyadan.
~ Homeros
the thunder has sounded--but who knows where the rain's going to fall.
~ Hong Ying
Life is a sum of all your choices," wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.
~ Howard Schultz
He recognized with authentic realism that anyone who permits another to determine the quality of his inner life gives into the hands of the other the keys to his destiny.
~ Howard Thurman
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
I am a road man for the lords of karma.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Jesus man! You don't look for acid! Acid finds you when *it* thinks you're ready.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
On some nights Fate will pick you up like a chicken and slam you around on the walls until your body feels like a beanbag. . . . BOOM! BLOOD! DEATH! So long, Bubba--You knew it would End like this. . . .
~ Hunter S. Thompson