Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neale Donald Walsch

Your happy destiny is unavoidable. You cannot be "saved." There is no hell except not knowing this.

Jose Saramago

Somewhere in the infinite that He occupies, God advances and withdraws the pawns of the other games He plays, but it is too soon to worry about this one, all He need do for the present is allow things to take their natural course, apart from the occasional adjustment with the tip of His little finger to make sure some stray thought or action does not interfere with the harmony of destinies.

Napoleon Hill

The world is ruled, and the destiny of civilization is established, by the human emotions.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Og Mandino

The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny.

Og Mandino

I need not wait for I have the power to choose my own destiny.

Og Mandino

First, recognize that you are not a sheep who will be satisfied with only a few nibbles of dry grass or with following the herd as they wander aimlessly, bleating and whining, all of their days. Separate yourself now from the multitude of humanity so that you will be able to control your own destiny. Remember that what others think and say and do need never influence what you think and say and do.

Orison Swett Marden

We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.

Jerry Brown

Okay, so what we really have to recognize and own as Americans is that our way of being is itself perhaps the greatest threat to the continuation of civilization.

John Cheever

For these are not as they might seem to be, the ruins of our civilization, but are temporary encampment and outposts of the civilization that we - you and I - shall build.

Will Rogers

You can't say that civilization don't advance; for in every war they kill you a new way.

Octavio Paz

By suppressing differences and peculiarities, by eliminating different civilizations and cultures, progress weakens life and favors death

Octavio Paz

The ideal of a single civilization for everyone, implicit in the cult of progress and technique, impoverishes and mutilates us

Emile M. Cioran

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

Emile M. Cioran

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Eric Rohmer

Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before.

Daniel Handler

For Beatrice, I cherished, you perished, The world's been nightmarished.

Arthur Schopenhauer

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a mans property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Ani Difranco

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

Andy Kaufman

I see the world as an illusion, and we shouldn't take ourselves so seriously

Andrew Marvell

Though I carry always some ill-nature about me, yet it is, I hope, no more than is in this world necessary for a preservative.

Ally Carter

So the quesiton is," Bex said slowly,"How far are you willing to go?" I looked at my three best friends in the world. "How far is there?

Ally Carter

Listen to me, Cammie. There are things in this life…in this world…There are things that you don’t want to remember.” - Rachel Morgan

Ally Carter

Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.

Allen Klein

And, unlike the earlier bombing on the World Trade Center, a major landmark and symbol of the strength of the financial world was, not just damaged but, totally destroyed.