Destiny Islands Quotes & Sayings

If you could decide on characters' destinies it would be like going to the desk of a travel agent who says: So where do you want to find the whale, in Samoa or in the Aleutian Islands? And when? And do you want to be the one who kills it or let Queequeg do it? Whereas the real lesson of Moby-Dick is that the whale goes wherever it wants. — Umberto Eco

Sora, don't ever change. — Tetsuya Nomura

The United States must lead the world in reversing climate change. We can do that. — Bernie Sanders

The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul
our Protestant idea, the right of individual conscience and judgment
our republican idea, individual citizenship. In discussing the rights of woman, we are to consider, first, what belongs to her as an individual, in a world of her own, the arbiter of her own destiny, an imaginary Robinson Crusoe with her woman Friday on a solitary island. Her rights under such circumstances are to use all her faculties for her own safety and happiness. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Her function in existence was to carry blasting destruction at high speed to floating islands of men; and her intended destiny, at the opposite pole from that of the male bee, was to die in this act of impregnating her enemy with death. It was, perhaps, for this reason that she carried her distinctly feminine bow, which was very high and sharp, with graceful arrogance and some slight vindictiveness, after the manner of a perfectly controlled martyr selected for spectacular and aristocratic sacrifice. Her name was Delilah. — Marcus Goodrich

I appreciate a lot in this life; the things you cannot buy. Life is only once. I am happy being here and all the things that are a risk I normally avoid. — Rafael Nadal

Fame is a very strange animal. — Adam Lambert

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"There's bullet holes in that sign," Tino observed drily.
"There are," Romeo agreed, starting at the dents and holes in the green metal. "Those are bullet holes, no question."
"They shot their own friggin' sign." Tino turned to arch an eyebrow at Romeo. "What the hell are they gonna do to us. — Kele Moon

And I have come so far; and the sights and thoughts of my youth pursue me; and I see like a vision the youth of my father, and of his father, and the whole stream of lives flowing down there, far in the north, with the sound of laughter and tears, to cast me out in the end, as by a sudden freshet, on those ultimate islands. And I admire and bow my head before the romance of destiny. — Robert Louis Stevenson

We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Just that I figure at some point, some guy must have been able to make you smile. And I always wondered if it was the same guy that made you stop. — Lauren Layne

But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time. — Lawrence Durrell

When we let our minds wander, we set our brains free. Our brains are most productive when there is no demand that they be reactive. — Sherry Turkle