Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Rickman

And it's a human need to be told stories. The more we're governed by idiots and have no control over our destinies, the more we need to tell stories to each other about who we are, why we are, where we come from, and what might be possible.

Chet Atkins

You shape your own destiny.

Darren Shan

That’s what you taught me - we don’t have to accept destiny or Des Tiny. We can create our own future, all of us. We have the power to rule our lives - we just have to make the choice to use it.

Darren Shan

Destiny is a tower of cards - nudge one just an inch and everything stacked on top comes crashing down. P116

Darren Shan

Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.

Cesare Pavese

Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

Cesare Pavese

Don't you know that what happens to you once always happens again? You always react in the same way to the same thing. It's no accident when you make a mess. Then you do it again. It's called destiny.

Cesare Pavese

I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

Cesare Pavese

From someone who doesn't want to share your destiny, you should neither accept a cigarette

Scott Anderson

Iraq is going to go down as one of the greatest blunders in American history.

Anatoly Karpov

Blunders rarely travel alone.

Alexander MacLaren

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties

Ron Zook

You normally don't have two blunders like that on special teams and win a game. Our thing was we're not going to lose a game because of special teams. That's a great lesson to be learned.

Kendall Coffey

It was one of the most bone-headed blunders ever seen in a high-profile federal case.

Ted Kennedy

It's an indictment of the lengths Administration officials were willing to go to cover up their failed intelligence, their distortion on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and their serious blunders on the war,

Darryl Paulson

It's the most dismal campaign that I've ever seen. It's been one set of missteps and blunders after another.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I've spent my life making blunders.

Mark McCormack

Talk less-you will automatically learn more, hear more, see more-and make fewer blunders.

Benjamin Franklin

At a great pennyworth pause a while.

Juvenal

No god is absent where prudence dwells.

Juvenal

One has no protecting power save prudence. [Lat., Nullum numen habes si sit prudentia.]

Lisa Ray

But we can't deploy everything. We would have to use prudence in how we share our resources.

John Heywood

It is good the have a hatch before the durre.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Prudence is the knowledge of things to be sought, and those to be shunned.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.