Famous Quotes & Sayings

Coco Chanel

It is best to be as pretty as possible for destiny.

Toni Morrison

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

Vicki Baum

To be a Jew is a destiny

Plato

No one can escape his destiny.

Bill Bradley

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

John Batina

We have our destiny in our hands. That's a good feeling because we haven't had that opportunity in a long time.

Elizabeth Darger

It feels good to have our destiny still in our control. It's our last home game, senior night, and we're really excited for that game. American Fork is a scrappy team.

H. G. Wells

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Tony Russa

That's just the way he pitches. I think it has more to do with him mentally concentrating really well. He hasn't let anything get away from him.

Antisthenes

As rust corrupts iron, so envy corrupts man.

Baruch Spinoza

Men would never be superstitious, if they could govern all their circumstances by set rules, or if they were always favoured by fortune: but being frequently driven into straits where rules are useless, and being often kept fluctuating pitiably between hope and fear by the uncertainty of fortune's greedily coveted favours, they are consequently for the most part, very prone to credulity.

Baruch Spinoza

Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.

Augustus Hare

The greatest truths are the simplest, and so are the greatest men.

Ayn Rand

Great men can't be ruled.

Ayn Rand

If a dedication page were to precede the total of my work, it would read: To the glory of Man.

Ayn Rand

If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

Ayn Rand

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

Boethius

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our expenses are all for conformity.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.