Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Eldredge

Eve is a life giver; she is Adam's ally. It is to both of them that the charter for adventure is given. It will take both of them to sustain life. And they will both need to fight together.

Maggie Stiefvater

My most memorable adventure was investigating the chalk cliffs in Yorkshire. While clambering over kelp-covered boulders half-covered by the sea, I fell and smashed my tail bone on one of them.

Edgar Rice Burroughs

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

Joel Osteen

What others say and do cannot stop you from fulfilling your destiny. Your destiny was handed down by Almighty God.

Francois Hollande

There is just one France... one single nation, united in the same destiny.

Madame de Stael

In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

How circumscribed is woman's destiny!

Beth Henley

That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

William Shakespeare

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

David O. McKay

The two most important documents affecting the destiny of America are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States. Both these immortal papers relate primarily to the freedom of the individual.

Cornel West

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

Cormac McCarthy

Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

Ayn Rand

And man will go on. Man, not men.

Calvin Coolidge

That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, most of it bad.

Richard G. Scott

The seminary programs will help you as a young man or woman to lay a foundation for happiness and success in life.

Sydney Smith

A man who wishes to make his way in life could do no better than go through the world with a boiling tea-kettle in his hand.

Dorothea Dix

Man is not made better by being degraded.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

Those who knew Lincoln described him as an extraordinarily funny man. Humor was an essential aspect of his temperament. He laughed, he explained, so he did not weep.

Doris Lilly

Men who wear turtlenecks look like turtles.

Doris Lessing

...She thinks, for the hundredth time, that in their emotional life all these intelligent men use a level so much lower than anything they use for work, that they might be different creatures.

Doris Lessing

A woman without a man cannot meet a man, any man, of any age, without thinking, even if it's for a half-second, 'Perhaps this is THE man.