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.

Hannah Arendt

Luck serves ... as rationalization for every people that is not master of its own destiny.

Guy Finley

We are not here on earth to change our destiny, but to fulfill it.

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

Resist as much as thou wilt; heaven's ways are heaven's ways.

Gottfried Leibniz

There is a certain destiny of everything, regulated by the foreknowledge and providence of God in His works.

Giacomo Leopardi

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Giacomo Casanova

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

Glenn Beck

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

Glenn Beck

All men are created equal. It is what you do from there that makes the difference. We are all free agents in life. We make our own decisions. We control our own destiny.

Gilbert Ryle

Absolute solitude is on this showing the ineluctable destiny of the soul. Only our bodies can meet.

Frank Herbert

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Guru Nanak

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

Honore de Balzac

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

Islom Karimov

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

Wiz Khalifa

You can take your destiny into your own hands.

Roxane Gay

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Vladimir Nabokov

Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

William Osler

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.

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.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Whoever has not felt the danger of our times palpitating under his hand, has not really penetrated to the vitals of destiny, he has merely pricked the surface.

Louise J. Kaplan

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

Philip Russell

The enormity of the loss that this family has sustained and the reversal of their destiny over the past three years is incomprehensible and heartbreaking.

Henry Hazlitt

When each of us is free to work out his own economic destiny, within the framework of the market economy, the institution of private property, and the general rule of law, we will all improve our economic condition much faster than when we are ordered around by bureaucrats.

Henry David Thoreau

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.

James Russell Lowell

The future works out great men's destinies; The present is enough for common souls, Who, never looking forward, are indeed Mere clay wherein the footprints of their age Are petrified forever.

Friedrich Schiller

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

Frederick Soddy

It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.