Famous Quotes & Sayings

Craig Biggio

I think it was more their destiny than ours.

If we keep winning, our destiny is in our own hands.

There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.

Sathya Baba

With effort and prayer destiny can be attained.  Start the effort.

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.

We've had a good start to our Ivy season. Destiny is in our hands: if we play great we can have great outcomes.

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.

Unto whom can we turn and cry? By one's own actions, nothing can be done; destiny was pre-determined from the very beginning.

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.

Gilbert Arenas

Our focus is just like tonight. We know they are going to be resting their guys, but we can't lay down for that because we need that win. This is our destiny and we have it in our hands. So If we want to get the fifth spot, we have to go out there and play like it.

Bill Engvall

I was born in Galveston, Texas in 1957 in the middle of a hurricane. I guess because of the drop in the barometric pressure it affected my brain and I was destined to become a stand up comic, although at that age I wasn't aware of my destiny.

C. S. Lewis

It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less.

C. S. Lewis

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined.

Bill Vaughan

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences.

Bill Vaughan

We are what we must And not what we would be. I know that one hour Assures not another. The will and the power Are diverse.

Bill Bradley

Some people say we can never achieve our special destiny, but I say, in a world of new possibilities guided by goodness, we can and we will.

I think destiny is preparation meeting opportunity, but there's an X-factor that's uncontrollable, and maybe that X-factor was being here in Wisconsin. But we worked hard. We prepared ourselves for this opportunity.

William Wordsworth

Stepping westward seemed to be/ A kind of heavenly destiny.

It feels good to have our destiny still in our control. It's our last home game, senior night, and we're really excited for that game. American Fork is a scrappy team.

William Shakespeare

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves; we are underlings.

It is my destiny to be the King of Pain

Che Guevara

I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...

Che Guevara

The world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

Che Guevara

The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.

Carl Jung

One finds one's destiny on the path one takes to avoid it.

Orlando Jones

With this hip-hop generation they think about who has gold teeth, instead of the destiny of mankind.

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.

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.

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