"Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance."

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Source : "Phoenix in Obsidian". Book by Michael Moorcock, 1970.

Michael Moorcock

#Taken Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“I'm an American first, and I think that's how most people are.”
“I think girls are especially worried about being judged, and when you're in high school, everything seems like a bigger deal than it is. As soon as you're out, it feels like forever ago-zip-a-dee-doo-dah! So do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay. Everyone thought I was weird in high school!”

Source : "AnnaSophia Robb Covers ‘Seventeen,’ Talks Austin Butler And Deferring College". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2013.
“By banishing doubt and trusting your intuitive feelings, you clear a space for the power of intention to flow through.”
“how we rolled up the carpet so we could dance, and the days were bright red, and every time we kissed there was another apple to slice into pieces. Look at the light through the windowpane. That means it's noon, that means we're inconsolable. Tell me how all this, and love too, will ruin us. These our bodies, possessed by light. Tell me we'll never get used to it.”
“To feel more fulfilled your actions and activities need to be in alignment with what you deem important.”
“The many magazines, ranging from pulp to slick, that used to serve as both farm teams for writers and lures to readers, with hundreds of short stories every month, don't exist. Most of the doors for new people have been sealed.”
“These are no ordinary claims; and it seems hardly possible for a rational being to regard them with even a subdued interest; much less to treat them with mere indifference and contempt. If not true they are little else than the pretensions of a bold imposture, which not satisfied with having already enslaved millions of the human race, seeks to continue its encroachments upon human liberty, until all nations be subjected under its iron rule.”

Source : Simon Greenleaf (1995). “The Testimony of the Evangelists: The Gospels Examined by the Rules of Evidence”, p.10, Kregel Publications
“Adventures are never fun while you're having them.”

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