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fate army hands
Chris Avellone When the injustice is great enough, justice will lend me the strength needed to correct it. None may stand against it. It will shatter every barrier, sunder any shield, tear through any enchantment, and lend its servant the power to pass sentence. Know this: There is nothing on all the Planes that can stay the hand of justice when it is brought against them. It may unmake armies. It may sunder the thrones of gods. Know that for all who betray justice, I am their fate. And fate carries an executioner's axe.
fate long care
China Mieville So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.
fate rome would-be
Edward Gibbon [The] events by which the fate of nations is not materially changed, leave a faint impression on the page of history, and the patience of the reader would be exhausted by the repetition of the same hostilities [between Rome and Persia], undertaken without cause, prosecuted without glory, and terminated without effect.
fate unhappy might
Edward Gibbon Such was the unhappy condition of the Roman emperors, that, whatever might be their conduct, their fate was commonly the same. A life of pleasure or virtue, of severity or mildness, of indolence or glory, alike led to an untimely grave; and almost every reign is closed by the same disgusting repetition of treason and murder.
fate civilization mirth
Edith Wharton She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.
fate feelings spontaneity
Edith Wharton ...though she had not had the strength to shake off the spell that bound her to him she had lost all spontaneity of feeling, and seemed to herself to be passively awaiting a fate she could not avert.
fate destiny men
Edith Wharton There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
fate champion suffering
David Hilbert Is mathematics doomed to suffer the same fate as other sciences that have split into separate branches?... Mathematics is, in my opinion, an indivisible whole... May the new century bring with it ingenious champions and many zealous and enthusiastic disciples.
victory events defeat
Charles Stanley In times of defeat, we never know how close we are to victory. In every event of failure, God has planted a seed of success.
victory saws
William Shakespeare I came, saw, and overcame.
victory spirituality
Beth Moore Our victory rests not on faith in our spirituality. Our victory rests on faith in our God.
victory battle hotter
Bob Marley The hotter the battle the sweeter the victory.
victory
Bill Walsh Victory is produced by and belongs to all.
victory graves
William Shakespeare And either victory, or else a grave.
victory germs defeat
Carl Jung Every victory contains the germ of future defeat.
victory events campaigns
Elizabeth May You should never even ask if a campaign is winnable, because the question is not answerable. No-one can predict the course of the future. Time and time again I have seen completely unforeseeable shifts in the tide of events that result in campaign victory.
victory purpose world
Barbara Tuchman To gain victory over the flesh was the purpose of fasting and celibacy, which denied the pleasures of this world for the sake of reward in the next.
wish contempt
William Shakespeare What our contempts do often hurl from us, We wish it ours again.
wish world sun
William Shakespeare I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
wish might matter
Madeleine Albright No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
wish gum enough
C. S. Lewis By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!
wish invisible
C. S. Lewis And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see.
wish leisure wit
C. S. Lewis if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure.
wish use type
Alan Ladd I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing
wish here-and-now enjoy
Cheri Huber When you stop comparing what is right here and now with what you wish were, you can begin to enjoy what is.
wish facts shy
Charlotte Gainsbourg I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.