Famous quotes containing the word destined:
“Enemies and lovers are destined to meet.”
—Chinese proverb.
“Those who escape death in great disasters are surely destined for good fortune later.”
—Chinese proverb.
“When the inhabitants of some sequestered island first descry the big canoe of the European rolling through the blue waters towards their shores, they rush down to the beach in crowds, and with open arms stand ready to embrace the strangers. Fatal embrace! They fold to their bosoms the vipers whose sting is destined to poison all their joys; and the instinctive feeling of love within their breasts is soon converted into the bitterest hate.”
—Herman Melville (18191891)
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