#destined

I was meant to date the captain of the football team, I was going to be on a romantic excursion every Saturday night, I was destined to be collecting corsages from every boy in town before prom, accepting such floral offerings like competing sacrifices to a Delphic goddess. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#before #boy #captain #collecting #competing

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined. ↗

— Philip Guston

#am #arbitrary #arrives #destined #falls

In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth. ↗

— Albert Bushnell Hart

#commonwealth #comparison #destined #distinguished #foundation

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#change #claim #cross #even #everything

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#cannot #defeat #destined #i #those

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus. ↗

— Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#did #i #likely #research #seem

Pardon me, but there’s someone on the phone who says they have a call for you.” There’s a call to tell me I have a call?” he asked with heavy skepticism. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#destined #early #grave #skepticism

It takes your knowing to decide on your going. If you know where you are going, you will keep going because you have already seen yourself gone ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#decision #destination #destiny #don-t-give-up #extra

Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#emerge #finally #however #leader #revolution

Intimates are predestined. ↗

— Henry Adams

#predestined