All chance of fulfilling my destiny is over.

In the Iliad, Aeneas is a minor character, where he is twice saved from death by the gods as if for an as yet unknown destiny.

Hindu astrology is oriented toward predicting one's fate or destiny.

Finally, belief in the power of such a cabal is an implicit assertion of human dignity – an often unconscious but necessary affirmation that man is not totally helpless, but is responsible, at least in some measure, for his own destiny.

Broadly speaking, Christian eschatology is the study of the destiny of mankind as it is revealed in the Bible, which is the primary source for all Christian eschatology studies.

According to political scientist Arthur Stinchcombe, citizenship is based on the extent that a person can control one's own destiny within the group in the sense of being able to influence the government of the group.

Eschatology ( from the Greek, eschatos / eschatē / eschaton meaning " last " and-logy meaning " the study of ", first used in English around 1550 ) is a part of theology, philosophy, and futurology concerned with what are believed to be the final events of history, the ultimate destiny of humanity — commonly referred to as the " end of the world " or " end time ".

According to Nicholas de Lange, Judaism offers no clear teaching about the destiny which lies in wait for the individual after death and its attitude to life after death has been expressed as follows: " For the future is inscrutable, and the accepted sources of knowledge, whether experience, or reason, or revelation, offer no clear guidance about what is to come.

Eschatology, generally is the area of theology and philosophy concerned with the final events in the history of the world, the ultimate destiny of humanity, and related concepts.

Karma is not fate, for humans act with free will creating their own destiny.

* The short story " There is a Tide " begins by speaking of a metaphorical tide of fate which guides one's destiny, but the existence of literal tides on a planet in the story is a key to the plot.

To believe in God means to take for granted that it is man's destiny to rise above the brute and to eliminate all forms of violence and exploitation from human society.

An alternative view, expressed by Otto Bauer, author of Social Democracy and the Nationalities Question ( 1907 ), that " A nation is an aggregate of people bound into a community of character by a common destiny.

It is estimated that of all the gold entering Spain from the New World between 1531 and 1660, 60 % had arrived at its destiny via the ' Treasure Fleet and Fairs ' system from Nombre de Dios / Portobelo.

This is a form of determinism but not predestination since the latter term implies that God has actually determined ( rather than simply seen ) in advance the destiny of creatures.

Boniface's eventual destiny is revealed to Dante by Pope Nicholas III, whom he meets.

The word ragnarök as a whole is then usually interpreted as the " final destiny of the gods.

The common theme of these works involves a protagonist who cannot escape a destiny if their fate has been sealed, however hard they try.

Monk's destiny was sealed when Max Roach, with whom he studied, gave him his first drum set, before the age of ten.

This victory also sealed the 6th Army's destiny because it was selected by the OKH for the attack on Stalingrad.

His destiny was sealed after the Battle of Dark Fen: At this battle, a force of vastly outnumbered Nagarythe warriors loyal to Caledor I fought against Morathi's private army.

He made it clear from the beginning that this was the students' opportunity, and that the future destiny of such groups depended on favorable results from this one.

I cannot conceive of my destiny separate from Russia, or outside it.

"... a new destiny requires a new origin, and the new origin must be from God.

To summarize, every established national group used cultural productions to assert and strengthen a sense of national unity and destiny ; less politically consolidated groups, especially those pursuing the goal of nationhood, used them in the same ways, though often with a note of determination that makes them easier to see from our contemporary point of reference.

The Right Hegelians, working from Hegel's opinions about the organicism and historically determined nature of human societies, took Hegel's historicism as a justification of the unique destiny of national groups and the importance of stability and institutions.

He cheerfully made the heavy sacrifices that science demands from its disciples, without envy or bitterness ; although he lived apart from his fellow men, he was full of human sympathies, and has had a profound influence on the destiny of mankind.

Libertarian Marxist currents often draw from Marx and Engels ' later works, specifically the Grundrisse and The Civil War in France ; emphasizing the Marxist belief in the ability of the working class to forge its own destiny without the need for a revolutionary party or state to mediate or aid its liberation.

Like Carmilla this undead femme fatale is not portrayed in an entirely negative way and attempts, but fails, to save the hero Spalatro from the eternal damnation that seems to be his destiny.

On the other it refers to the phenomenon of the soul being saved ( as in ' safe ') from some unfortunate destiny.

Poetically, this might be stated, " We come from One origin, we are headed to One destiny, but we cannot know completely what these are, so we are to focus on making this life better for all of us, and we use reason when we can, to find our way.

Gutierrez's book is based on an understanding of history in which the human being is seen as assuming conscious responsibility for human destiny, and yet Christ the Savior liberates the human race from sin, which is the root of all disruption of friendship and of all injustice and oppression.

At this stage in his life Piazzolla was tired of tango and at first, he tried to hide his tanguero past and his bandoneon compositions from Boulanger, thinking that his destiny lay in classical music.

" The idealism of Americans centers in the future of America, wherein we hope to work out those principles of liberty and democracy to which we are committed This political idealism, this strain of pacifism, this abstinence from aggression and desire to be left alone to work out our own destiny, has been manifest from the birth of the republic.

As " Muad ' Dib ," Paul becomes the central figure of a new religion, and reluctantly unleashes a bloody jihad in his name across the universe ; Paul struggles with the potential idea of seizing divine control over his newly minted empire, only to finally escape from the burden of his destiny by placing it on his sister Alia and his offspring Leto II and Ghanima.

Initially only Alphonse moved to the court in Cangas, but after the progressive depopulation of the Plateau and the Middle Valley of the Ebro, where the main strongholds of the Duchy of Cantabria such as Amaya, Tricio and City of Cantabria were located, the descendants of Duke Peter withdrew from Rioja towards the Cantabrian area and in time controlled the destiny of the Kingdom of Asturias.

Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan wrote that " to believe in God means to take for granted that it is man's destiny to rise above the brute and to eliminate all forms of violence and exploitation from human society.

Destiny began appearing in some of the stories beginning in issue # 10 ( though he said that as all the stories he tells deal with destiny, he is in all of them, as well ).

Tolkien from the beginning was stable in his view that Túrin should have some exceptional destiny after his death, unlike to the fate of other Mortal Men to abide shortly in the Halls of Mandos and then leave Arda forever.

This led to a long undefeated run and the beginning of Raven's attempts to fulfill his destiny.

Roland is alone at the beginning of the series, following the way of ka, a variant of destiny.

* In The ultimate showdown of ultimate destiny Whiplash has a brief cameo near the beginning and is later seen in a pile of dead bodies near Captain Hook's hand.

At the beginning of 2009 Lethal proclaimed that it was his destiny to win back the JAPW Heavyweight title, held by Kenny Omega.