#destined

You chose to come to Paris, of all places,” Mencheres replied. So what? Got something against the French? ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#destined #early #grave #mencheres #paris

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#afterwards #battle #been #defeat #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

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

— Russell Crowe

#cannot #defeat #destined #i #those

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received. ↗

— Ace Frehley

#destined #did #first #going #had

Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#believe #believers #feels #find #guards

I've been wanting to have a baby since I was 2 years old - I'm destined to be a mother. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#been #destined #i #mother #old

To anyone who has started out on a long campaign believing that the gold medal was destined for him, the feeling when, all of a sudden, the medal has gone somewhere else is quite indescribable. ↗

— Sebastian Coe

#believing #campaign #destined #else #feeling

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

— Irving Babbitt

#emerge #finally #however #leader #revolution