Famous Quotes & Sayings

Huston Smith

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

James Gleick

The universe is computing its own destiny.

Immanuel Kant

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man's happiness or unhappiness depends as much on his temperament as on his destiny.

Giordano Bruno

For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order .

Harry S Truman

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

Gunnar Myrdal

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

Gene Cernan

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

Candice Bergen

I remember the pilot like it was yesterday, ... From the day I read that script, there was some kind of destiny to it.

Gilbert Arenas

Our focus is just like tonight. We know they are going to be resting their guys, but we can't lay down for that because we need that win. This is our destiny and we have it in our hands. So If we want to get the fifth spot, we have to go out there and play like it.

Films were never on my agenda, may be it was written in my destiny. And since I am here, I would like to give it my best try.

What is the highest secret to victory and peace? To will what God wills, and strike a league with destiny.

Alexandra Adornetto

In him I saw my furture In him I saw my friend In him I saw my destiny Both my beginning and end

William Shakespeare

Are you up to your destiny?

Cormac McCarthy

Ah me, thou Destiny, Giver of evil gifts.

Gilbert Arenas

We can't look at it like we are however many games ahead, we've been down that path before. We hold our own destiny from here on out.

We have to win the game to have any chance. They (August Town) have taken the lead and so destiny is not in our hands any more.

Sonu Nigam

I know my destiny is moksh or liberation. I will not die for money or success. I am satisfied living the life I am leading, and I will die with dignity.

Aeschylus

Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

Aeschylus

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

Adrienne Rich

Poetry can add its grain to an accumulation of consciousness against the idea that there is no alternative - that we're just in the great flow of capitalism and it can never be any different - that this is human destiny, this is human nature.

Ludwig von Mises

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

We've kind of got our own destiny in our own hands. But from No. 5 to No. 14, if they listed that far, we're all in a tight cluster.

William Shakespeare

And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

Sathya Baba

With effort and prayer destiny can be attained.  Start the effort.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

David Jeremiah

We live under the sun, but our destiny is beyond its rising and setting.

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.

Danny Boyle

For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.

Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny is something not to be desired and not to be avoided.