Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Anthony Mackie

The choices that we make through our lives, the people who intersect us on our path kind of change what our fated destiny is. So some of us are lucky enough for the choices that we make to keep us on our path.

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.

Anthony Head

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

Anita Loos

I used to think that looking across a pillow into the fabulous face of Buster Keaton would be a more thrilling destiny than any screen career.

Andre Malraux

If we cannot shape our destiny there as no such thing as witchcraft.

Andre Malraux

The terrible thing about death is that it transforms life into destiny.

Andre Malraux

In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.

... love, like destiny, loves surprises ...

Anthony Horowitz

Go to Venice. Find Scorpia. And you will find your destiny.

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.

Abraham Verghese

I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.

Abraham Verghese

Not only our actions, but also our omissions, become our destiny.

Abraham Verghese

Geography is destiny.

Abraham Lincoln

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various "leads" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny.

Ann Brashares

I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

Andy Andrews

It's time to stop letting your history control your destiny.

Andrea Bocelli

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

Aeschylus

Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out.

Aeschylus

Nought is there in wealth That serves as bulwark 'gainst the subtle stealth Of Destiny and Doom.

Aeschylus

But I must bear my destiny as best I can, knowing well that there is no resisting the strength of necessity.

James Woods

The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.

Jane Welsh Carlyle

A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture?