Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

C. S. Lewis

But the most obvious fact about praise -- whether of God or anything -- strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. ... The world rings with praise -- lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their favorite game. ... I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation.

Andrew Wyatt

I don't judge people who just hit "play," but I would judge myself if I did that. I wouldn't feel like I was earning my money, I'd feel like I was putting one over on people. I have to play the notes.

William Shakespeare

Play out the play ...

Robert Frost

I play better tennis because the court is there.

Robert Frost

Only where love and need are one, And the work is play for mortal stakes Is the deed ever truly done For Heaven and the future's sakes

Robert Frost

When work becomes play, and play becomes your work, your life unfolds.

Robert Frost

Humour is the most engaging cowardice. With it myself I have been able to hold some of my enemy in play far out of gunshot.

Robert Frost

Both T.S. Eliot and I like to play, but I like to play euchre, while he likes to play Eucharist.

Rick Perlstein

I cant summarize my favorite movie, Jacques Tatis Play Time. You just have to see it.

Alan Zweibel

I've been writing for people long enough to know that it has got to feel comfortable coming out of their mouths, especially when you're doing something that is first person and is so near and dear to you.

Jessica Simpson

I've come to realize that the more I censor myself, the less people relate to me.

Ryan Clark

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Tim Miles

I've been in that situation a lot. People look at you like they're going to whip you.

Brad Wilkerson

I've been in this organization, the Montreal/Nationals organization, from the onset of it. It's just a shock that I'm not going to be with the same organization, the same people I've been around my whole career. That's going to be different.

Mandy Moore

I understand people have preconceived notions of who I am or what I do.

Christie Brinkley

I urge people to make your workout fun.

Robert Gerard

I unequivocally think there is no place for steroids in the sport. There are tens of thousands of young people that look up to these athletes.

Ted Strickland

The zeitgeist is clear. People in this state want change. They're tired of scandal. They want to turn things around, and that's just what we are going to do.