Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Shakespeare

Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

Benjamin Watson

You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.

Cecily von Ziegesar

Destiny is for losers. It's just a lame excuse for letting things happen to you instead of making them happen.

Catherynne M. Valente

Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she herself might do. September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one’s own use in the world. It was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up.

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.

Not many people expected this match, ... But it will be difficult anyway. We have our destiny in our own hands.

I knew we had to win our game. You always want to have destiny in your own hands, so we're really happy with that.

I'm really trying to keep our team focused on what's in front of us. Knowing that we still have destiny in our control. We still have it in our hands.

B. B. King

I . . . like being successful. I somehow always knew that I would succeed. I had a great sense of destiny from the time I was very young.

No matter where you go, your destiny follows you.

It's very important to the people who live and work in San Martin. That the destiny of San Martin and their quality of life is determined by the people who live here.

Djuna Barnes

Destiny and history are untidy.

This is a watershed event. We are taking our energy destiny into our own hands.

Dalai Lama

No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature.

Angela Bassett

If you have a big voice, so be it. But if you do things quietly, so be it. It can be done. I think it was a destiny for her life.

Jack Kent Cooke

Destiny demands you do better than your supposed best.

Isabel Allende

Each of us chooses the tone for telling his or her own story. I would like to choose the durable clarity of a platinum print, but nothing in my destiny possesses the luminosity. I live among diffuse shadings, veiled mysteries, uncertainties; the tone of telling my life is closer to that of a portrait in sepia.

Greg Graffin

If there is no destiny, there is no design. There's only life and death. My goal is to learn about life by living it, not by trying to figure out a cryptic plan that the Creator had in store for me.

I must in the face of a storm, think, live and die as a king.

Before this one I told the girls that the rest of the season -- our destiny -- was in their hands. Let's hope this is a sign of our maturity.

Robert Kiyosaki

How you earn your money and build your career is how you earn your destiny and build your legacy

Those who have such pre ordained destiny meet with the True Guru, God Incarnate.

I embrace the purpose of God and the doom assigned.

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

Matt Birk

The Steelers won three playoff games in a row on the road; they are a mentally tough team. And they are one of the most physical teams I saw all year. When it comes to physicality and mental toughness, they are a hard team to beat. Plus, it seems like they have one of those destiny things going for them.

Raymond Domenech

I sensed it was a team that had taken its destiny in its hands.

The spiritual being wants to be Destiny and the Destiny wants to become Evolution, and the Evolution wants to become Fulfillment, the Fulfillment wants to become Truth and, oh my, Truth wants to be a part of Knowledge, when it is precisely non-Knowledge.

Kathleen Hanna

It's the idea that we as people can control our own destinies. The government and the corporations, more even than the government, can't dictate what artwork we're supposed to like or what comedy we're supposed to laugh at.

Those people will have a destiny that is very harsh in hellfire,

It was her destiny to be here living. With all the problems . . . they did not think she would make it.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Am I caught in a self-centred, narrow little cell which refuses to look beyond? Do I see it when you come along and tell me that my brain is the brain of all mankind?

Glenn Beck

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.