Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Martha Beck

The only way to the Place beyond Fear is to do the thing you fear most. This is how to surrender to your best destiny.

Martha Beck

The more you claim your own destiny, the easier it will be to love unconditionally .

Joseph Brodsky

A poet is a combination of an instrument and a human being in one person, with the former gradually taking over the latter. The sensation of this takeover is responsible for timbre; the realization of it, for destiny.

Joseph Brodsky

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Paul Ricoeur

But myth is something else than an explanation of the world, of history, and of destiny. Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of himself in relation to the foundation and the limit of his existence. Hence to demythologize is to interpret myth, that is, to relate the objective representations of the myth to the self-understanding which is both shown and concealed in it.

Paul Ricoeur

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other

Naomi Judd

No one's born with their destiny stamped on their forehead ... we make the choices to fulfill our destiny.

R. D. Laing

We are born into a world where alienation awaits us. We are potentially men, but are in an alienated state, and this state is not simply a natural system. Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

Publilius Syrus

We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.

Publilius Syrus

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

Pranab Mukherjee

I am comfortable at the height where destiny has put me.

Poul Anderson

Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is bravery

Nelson Mandela

Our continent must be allowed to do its own things, charting its course and destiny.

Nelly

Your own destiny, create your own recipe.

Niccolo Machiavelli

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

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.

H. G. Wells

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Jean Baudrillard

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

Myles Munroe

Success is the potential destiny of all created things

Myles Munroe

Your Destiny is chosen by God, Your future is certain, whether you arrive there is up to you

Ken Follett

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.