Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

William Wordsworth

Stepping westward seemed to be/ A kind of heavenly destiny.

I think destiny is preparation meeting opportunity, but there's an X-factor that's uncontrollable, and maybe that X-factor was being here in Wisconsin. But we worked hard. We prepared ourselves for this opportunity.

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.

Craig Biggio

I think it was more their destiny than ours.

William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

It is my destiny to be the King of Pain

Mike Ditka

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

Courtney Love

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

Alija Izetbegovic

In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.

Alice Munro

Sometimes our connection is frayed, it is in danger, it seems almost lost. Views and streets deny knowledge of us, the air grows thin. Wouldn't we rather have a destiny to submit to, than, something that claims us, anything, instead of such flimsy choices, arbitrary days?

Albert Camus

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Albert Camus

In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

Albert Camus

What, in fact, is a novel but a universe in which action is endowed with form, where final words are pronounced, where people possess one another completely, and where life assumes the aspect of destiny?

Albert Camus

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all.

Annie Dillard

Silence is not our heritage but our destiny; we live where we want to live.

E. O. Wilson

Man's destiny is to know, if only because societies with knowledge culturally dominate societies that lack it. Luddites and anti-intellectuals do not master the differential equations of thermodynamics or the biochemical cures of illness. They stay in thatched huts and die young.

Don DeLillo

If the world is where we hide from ourselves, what do we do when the world is no longer accessible? We invent a false name, invent a destiny, purchase a firearm through the mail.

Dalai Lama

No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.

Desmond Tutu

If we could but recognize our common humanity, that we do belong together, that our destinies are bound up in one another's, that we can be free only together, that we can be human only together, then a glorious world would come into being where all of us lived harmoniously together as members of one family, the human family.

Amy Davis

Some people are just destined to be together. That's just the way it is.

Ang Lee

I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

Anais Nin

One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.

Anais Nin

[in the]..curious way that my idealism has been mixed with my fatalism, so that I can possess the soul of a dreamer and that of a cynic at the same time......I possess a power of magic...[to] destroy the balance of a well-designed destiny with my diabolical mind.....

Anne Fortier

We are all cups, and our destiny is poured according to measures we cannot understand, cannot influence.

Anne Frank

We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.

Andrew Carnegie

A word, a look, an accent, may affect the destiny not only of individuals, but of nations. He is a bold man who calls anything a trifle.

Daniel Pinkwater

It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

Daniel Quinn

Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as though this may be his undoing. The problem is that man's conquest of the world has itself devastated the world. And in spite of all the mastery we've attained, we don't have enough mastery to stop devastating the world.. or to repair the devastation we've already wrought.

Clive Owen

Sometimes you find your destiny on the road you took to avoid it.

Anthony Head

It's everyone's destiny to be glooped at some point in their life.