Destiny Quote by Stendhal Download Open image ““It was the destiny of Napoleon - would it one day be his?”” — Stendhal ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Destiny
“Napoleon was accustomed to gaze steadily at war; he never added up the heart-rending details, cipher by cipher; ciphers mattered little to him, provided… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
It would scarcely be destruction," he replied gently. "Let us call it iconoclasm, the swallowing of formulas, which has always had its full retinue… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
“The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.” — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
“would be free from his enemies. After once reaching this,” — Paul S. (Paul Sylvester) Powers Copy Share Image
“Marius saw in Bonaparte the dazzling spectre which will always rise upon the frontier, and which will guard the future. Despot but dictator; a… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“No man has a chance to enjoy permanent success until he begins to look in a mirror for the real cause of all his… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
“Each man's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his memory.” — Eduardo Mallea Copy Share Image
“It was your destiny - let us hope it will prove a glorious one.” — E.D.E.N. Southworth Copy Share Image
“Like all men is distress,Gideon decided to do what Napoleon, what Shakespeare, what Alexander the Great would have done. There remained only the minor… — Robert Louis Stevenson Lloyd Osbourne Copy Share Image
“Not because he was a decent block, mind you. He was an arse. But he was a shirt arse, like meself. (Napoleon)” — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“Was a struggle to choose one's own destiny less worthwhile than the necessity to stop a great evil?” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The pleasures and the cares of the luckiest ambition, even of limitless power, are nothing next to the intimate happiness that tenderness and love… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The tyranny of public opinion (and what an opinion!) is as fatuous in the small towns of France as it is in the United… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“The footman burst in, announcing, 'Monsieur le Duc de ---.' 'Hold your tongue, you fool,' said the Duke as he entered the room. He… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
“If you think of paying court to those in power, your eternal ruin is assured.” — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Your career will be a painful one. I divine something in you which offends the vulgar. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Perhaps men who cannot love passionately are those who feel the effect of beauty most keenly; at any rate this is the strongest impression… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
... War on the destiny of man! Doom on the sun! Before death takes you, O take back this. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Man blindly works the will of fate. [Ger., Blindlings that er blos den Willen des Geschickes.] — Christoph Martin Wieland Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“It's morning now, and I miss the soft rasp of her voice already. Ugh. I'm in trouble, aren't I?” — Pat Shand Copy Share Image
“Failing to meet your true destiny is a tragic act of free will.” — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
Somehow destiny comes into play. These children end up with you and you end up with them. It's something quite magical. — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
“In that instant it all seemed to come clear to him- it came in a grisly flash of light, and he realized that the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Destiny is the ordained intention God has sacredly prepared with your name on it.” — John S. Lynch Copy Share Image
