Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)
– Terentianus Maurus
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- Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies] – Ernst Jnger
- People keep asking astrologers for their destinies. Ironically, it is the people themselves who are the creators of their own destinies. – Avijeet Das
- Aures habent et non audient` – `They have ears but hear not – Jules Verne
- It’s a new world, sweetie. We build our own destinies. – Pat Shand
- I believe we make our own destinies, every last one of us. – Morgan Rhodes
- Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies! – Jerry Spinelli
- God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them. – RM ArceJaeger
- Those who are not working toward a better life and those who do not take responsibility for their destinies do not have victories – Sunday Adelaja
- All humans are carrying invisible torchlights directing us to our destinies called our beliefs. – AuliqIce
- Have all beautiful things sad destinies? – Jean Rhys
- Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual destinies. God declared marriage to be good. – Billy Graham
- One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies. – Shah Asad Rizvi
- Around our enthusiasm, are the ways to surround our destinies. – MH Rakib
- Reading helps children achieve their divine destinies – Soraya Diase Coffelt
- our destinies are intertwinedlike the stems of ivy on an oak tree. – Chris Tinniswood
- Our destinies depend on the choices we make. Be it wise or stupid. – Paul Nat
- They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies. – Bruno Schulz
- Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies. – Truman Capote
- The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances. – William Osler
- You can`t change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales. – Katie McGarry
- Are we all just lightning rods for other people’s destinies? Is that what it’s all about – Anthony McDonald
- Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other. – Paul Ricur
- When evil altars are invoked, great destinies are altered – Steven Chuks Nwaokeke
- Desire to impact lives! Change destinies and make dreams come true. – Jaachynma NE Agu
- Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone. – Emil M Cioran
- True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. – Victor Hugo
- Raging winds and clashing seasshould not keep you from victory.Stormy winds and raging seasgive birth to great destinies. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- His way isn’t the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we’re both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that. – Paulo Coelho
- With passions stilled and one’s nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure. – Wu Chengen
- It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
- Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. – Anatole France
- All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time. – John Ruskin
- Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
- You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
- And tell them all about the books you’ve read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That’s an order. You can never read too many books. – PB Kerr
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter
- To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They’re also theirs. – Pamela Paul
- Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. – Kira Hawke
- Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest to divinity. – Casey Carter
- Remember some books are meant to be tasted, some books are meant to be chewed and, finally, some books are meant to be swallowed whole. – Robin S Sharma