Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charlotte Bronte

Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.

Charlotte Bronte

Your will shall decide your destiny.

Richard G. Scott

I have been taught that we can make many choices in life, but we cannot choose our final destiny. Our actions do that.

Trai Byers

In 2013, I didn't work at all, just contemplating what I needed to do, whether I was walking in my destiny or not.

Brian Weiss

Every individual soul chooses the significant people in that life. Destiny will place you in the particular circumstance; it will dictate that you will encounter a particular person, at a certain time, place.

Djuna Barnes

Destiny and history are untidy.

David Brooks

Much of life is about failure, whether we acknowledge it or not, and your destiny is profoundly shaped by how effectively you learn from and adapt to failure.

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

Carl Andre

SoHo was called Hell's Hundred Acres because it was full of sweatshops - without fire escapes. Completely not up to code. Every once in a while, these buildings would burn and 26 Puerto Ricans would be killed.

Lee Kreindler

What the people on the ground saw was that line of fire proceeding back toward the fuselage. That's what they thought was a missile.

Amy Hall

When you say the name Ostertag, ... people are just spittin' fire.

Alan King

The other day my house caught fire. My lawyer said, "Shouldn't be a problem. What kind of coverage do you have?" I said, "Fire and theft." The lawyer frowned. "Uh oh. Wrong kind. Should be fire OR theft."

Charles Dudley Warner

To poke a wood fire is more solid enjoyment than almost anything else in the world.

Charles de Lint

Under the skin, intense fires burn.

Charles Caleb Colton

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience.

Charles Caleb Colton

The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.

Charles Caleb Colton

In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

C. S. Lewis

We cannot fully understand the relations of time and choice until we are beyond both.

Paul Clayton

We want our customers leaving our stores feeling better than when they walked in the door, and feeling good about themselves and the choices they've made.

Agnes Repplier

It takes time and trouble to persuade ourselves that the things we want to do are the things we ought to do.

Aaron Tveit

You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

Charlie Crist

I'll be honest with you, I don't agree with President Obama about everything. But I've gotten to know him, I've worked with him, and the choice is crystal clear.

Charles Dudley Warner

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

Charles de Lint

Everybody's got the potential for great good and great wrong in them, but it's the choices we make that define who we really are.

Charles Simmons

Good intentions are very mortal and perishable things. Like very mellow and choice fruit, they are difficult to keep.