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Quotes About Destiny

For way down there, in a shot glass's false bottom, everything was bound to turn out fine after all.
~ Nelson Algren
I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be, Dove considered his prospects calmly, all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker.
~ Nelson Algren
He understood, too, that they had not necessarily been chosen to succeed, or even to live. But they'd been chosen to find the Holy Grail that was within themselves. And that's what this was always about; the Grail was a phantom and the journey was inward, into their hearts and souls.
~ Nelson DeMille
He met the femme de chambre upon the landing. 'I have made up my mind,' he said heavily. 'La petite Rose may come with us to England; I will take her to her father. She must be ready to start to-morrow morning, at seven o'clock.
~ Nevil Shute
This may have been what John and I were brought together for,' she said. 'In thirty years the world may need one of these little ones.' She paused. 'It may be Ronnie or it may be Willem, or it may be little Pierre who does great things for the world,' she said. 'But when that happens, monsieur, it will be because I met your son to show him Paris, and we fell in love.
~ Nevil Shute
parece seguro que esta decadencia relativa continuará en un futuro inmediato. Para muchos estadounidenses, la principal importancia de Europa no es la de ser un rival estratégico sino un destino turístico.
~ Niall Ferguson
God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
And in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter to be shaped into the form that they thought fit; and without that opportunity their powers would have been wasted, and without their powers the opportunity would have come in vain.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
For Time, driving all things before it, may bring with it evil as well as good.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Time sweeps everything along and can bring good as well as evil, evil as well as good.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
It was necessary, therefore, to Moses that he should find the people of Israel in Egypt enslaved and oppressed by the Egyptians, in order that they should be disposed to follow him so as to be delivered out of bondage. It was necessary that Romulus should not remain in Alba, and that he should be abandoned at his birth, in order that he should become King of Rome and founder of the fatherland. It
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Nevertheless, not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Dios no quiere hacerlo todo, para no privarnos de nuestro libre albedrío ni quitarnos una parte de la obra que en nuestro bien redundará.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
God creates men, but they choose each other.
~ Niccolo Machivelli
The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.
~ Nicholas Sparks
If you're a bird... I'm a bird...
~ Nicholas Sparks
An ordinary beginning, something that would have been forgotten had it been anyone but her. But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his next breath that she was the one he could spend the rest of his life looking for but never find again. She seemed that good, that perfect, while a summer wind blew through the trees.
~ Nicholas Sparks
There are winds of destiny that blow when we least expect them. Sometimes they gust with the fury of a hurricane, sometimes they barely fan one's cheek. But the winds cannot be denied, bringing as they often do a future that is impossible to ignore.
~ Nicholas Sparks
I know that somehow, every step I took since the moment I could walk was a step towards finding you.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Do you ever wonder why things have to turn out the way they do?
~ Nicholas Sparks
I've been thinking about you constantly since I left, wondering why the journey I'm on seemed to have led through you. I know my journey's not over yet, and that life is a winding path, but I can only hope it somehow circles back to the place I belong. That's how I think of it now. I belong with you.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other... I know I've spent each life before this one searching for you. Not someone like you but you, for your soul and mine must always come together.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Jamie: You know what I figured out today? Landon: What? Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends. Like you were sent to me because I'm sick. To help me through all this. You're my angel.
~ Nicholas Sparks