Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roxane Gay

Nemeses aren't born. They are made.

Rowan Williams

... we can at least see that the question is asked, and asked on the basis of a clear recognition that there is no way of manipulating our environment that is without cost or consequence - and thus also of a recognition that we are inextricably bound up with the destiny of our world. There is no guarantee that the world we live in will 'tolerate' us indefinitely if we prove ourselves unable to live within its constraints.

Ronald Reagan

You and I have a rendevous with destiny.

William Hazlitt

Those who wish to forget painful thoughts do well to absent themselves for a while from, the ties and objects that recall them; but we can be said only to fulfill our destiny in the place that gave us birth.

Wendell Phillips

Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

Wade Davis

So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.

W. Somerset Maugham

Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.

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.

Mike Ditka

Pittsburgh may be a team of destiny. They find a way to get it done.

Angela Bassett

If you have a big voice, so be it. But if you do things quietly, so be it. It can be done. I think it was a destiny for her life.

I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.

I'm really trying to keep our team focused on what's in front of us. Knowing that we still have destiny in our control. We still have it in our hands.

I knew we had to win our game. You always want to have destiny in your own hands, so we're really happy with that.

B. B. King

I . . . like being successful. I somehow always knew that I would succeed. I had a great sense of destiny from the time I was very young.

Neale Donald Walsch

Your happy destiny is unavoidable.

Neale Donald Walsch

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

Miguel Cotto

Everything happens at the time it needs to happen. I do not push destiny. Boxers take different paths in their career and those roads don't always come together.

Joseph Addison

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me.

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.

Jose Bergamin

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Jack Welch

Control your destiny or somebody will.

Harvey Mackay

I've learned that people will seldom let you down if they understand that your destiny is in their hands, and vice versa.

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.

George Arnold

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

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.

Jacques Monod

Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.

Henry Rollins

You have to realize there are other people, other economies, governments, cultures, religions, and destinies going on at the same time as yours. You have to widen the scope of your lens and start seeing more.

Helen Hayes

In this sometimes turbulent world, the river is a cosmic symbol of durability and destiny; awesome, but steadfast. In this period of deep national concern, I wish everyone could live for a while beside a great river.

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.