"You speak of destiny as if it was…" — Philip Pullman

"You speak of destiny as if it was fixed."

— Philip Pullman

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176 Quotes by Philip Pullman

Philip Pullman has 176 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Gradually, at various points in our childhoods, we discover different forms of conviction. There's the rock-hard certainty of personal experience…
For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk,…
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against…
We have to learn everything we do.
And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of…
Once upon a time lasts forever
I got a book token for Christmas and exchanged it for a book called A History of Art, and that…
I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North…
What I couldn't help noticing was that I learned more about the novel in a morning by trying to write…
My books are about killing God.
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is…

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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom… — Marcus Aurelius
Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. — Marcus Aurelius
Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man;… — Marcus Aurelius
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of… — Ansel Adams
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,… — Honore de Balzac
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be. — Douglas Adams
Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow. — Dennis Banks
Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get… — Charles Barkley
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas… — Simone de Beauvoir
It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. — Henry Ward Beecher

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