Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Danielle Steel

You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.

Cornel West

The paradox of race in America is that our common destiny is more pronounced and imperiled precisely when our divisions are deeper.

Cormac McCarthy

Men speak of blind destiny, a thing without scheme or purpose. But what sort of destiny is that? Each act in this world from which there can be no turning back has before it another, and it another yet. In a vast endless net. Men imagine that the choices before them are theirs to make. But we are free to act only upon what is given. Choice is lost in the maze of generations and each act in the maze is itself an enslavement for it voids every alternative and binds one ever more tightly into the constraints that make a life.

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.

Edwin Markham

There is a destiny That makes us brothers: None goes his way alone: All that we send into the lives of others Comes back into our own.

Muhammad Iqbal

Thou doest not know thy own destiny and doest not know that it gets its worth from thee - otherwise the luminous ruby is only a piece of stone.

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.

Dag Hammarskjold

Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning.

Daisaku Ikeda

We are responsible for our own destiny. What matters is how we improve ourselves from this moment forward.

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 have our destiny in our hands. That's a good feeling because we haven't had that opportunity in a long time.

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.

We are in the world where the longing mountains are the most grounded.

We are in the same situation as them, so if either team gets swept this weekend it's going to be huge. We have our destiny in our own hands.

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.

William Shakespeare

Are you up to your destiny?

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.

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.