A Quote by Jean de La Fontaine

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

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Jean de La Fontaine
French - Poet
July 8, 1621 - April 13, 1695

Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

Clive Owen

I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually a frog or a wizened old man on the side of the road. The hero is going down the road and meets this poor and insignificant person. The goal or lesson is for the hero to learn to respect everybody and to pay attention to the poorest person because that's where the key to his success will be.

George Lucas

So we see Edward as a young man on the road and he meets a giant and he brings the giant to a circus where he meets a Miss Calloway. He sees the woman of his dreams and I am the only one who knows who she is.

Danny DeVito

You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

Jessi Kirby

A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . .

Friedrich Nietzsche

The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

Jack Nicholson

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it.

Goldie Hawn

Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.

Martin Luther

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Hector Elizondo

... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

Plutarch

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.

Joss Whedon

When a man meets catastrophe on the road, he looks in his purse, but a woman looks in her mirror.

Margaret Turnbull

When Steampunk meets adventure and adventure meets comedy and comedy meets ingenuity and ingenuity meets charm and charm meets wonder and wonder meets pleasure the result is a Triumph. Dr Grordbort is the future. And the past. Which makes an ideal present.