Famous Quotes & Sayings

Huston Smith

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

Giordano Bruno

For nature is not merely present , but is implanted within things, distant from none... And while the outer face of things changeth so greatly, there flourisheth the origin of being more intimately within all things than they themselves. The fount of all kinds, Mind , God , Being, One, Truth , Destiny , Reason , Order .

Harry S Truman

It's not the hand that signs the laws that holds the destiny of America. It's the hand that casts the ballot.

Gunnar Myrdal

As a forecaster, Marx shared the common destiny of all prophets: to be belied by events.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

Martin Heidegger

Only where leader and led together bind each other in one destiny ... does true order grow.

Martin Heidegger

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

Mario Puzo

Every man has but one destiny" Veto Corleone

Muhammad Iqbal

It is the lot of man to share in the deeper aspirations of the universe around him and to share his own destiny as well as that of the universe, now by adjusting himself to its forces, now by putting the whole of his energy to his own ends and purposes.

Muhammad Iqbal

I would like to see the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Sind and Baluchistan amalgamated into a single State. Self-government within the British Empire, or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim State appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.

Muhammad Iqbal

Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.

Muhammad Iqbal

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

Frank Herbert

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Guru Nanak

With your hands carve out your own destiny.

H. G. Wells

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

The destiny of nations depends on how they nourish themselves.

Jean Baudrillard

Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.

Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.

Buzz Aldrin

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

Buzz Aldrin

Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure: Often we don't even realize who we're meant to be because we're so busy trying to live out someone else's ideas. But other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oprah Winfrey

Other people and their opinions hold no power in defining our destiny.

Oliver Goldsmith

We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

Marcel Marceau

Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.

Marcel Marceau

I have designed my style pantomimes as white ink drawings on black backgrounds, so that man's destiny appears as a thread lost in an endless labyrinth. I have tried to shed some gleams of light on the shadow of man startled by his anguish.

Margaret Thatcher

Europe is... a monument to the vanity of individuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure.

Margaret Thatcher

(A unified) 'Europe' is the result of plans. It is, in fact, a classic utopian project, a monument to the vanity of intellectuals, a programme whose inevitable destiny is failure: only the scale of the final damage done is in doubt.

Mary Renault

When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

The grave is still the best shelter against the storms of destiny.

Gene Cernan

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today.

Giacomo Leopardi

People are ridiculous only when they try or seem to be that which they are not.

Giacomo Casanova

There is no such thing as destiny. We ourselves shape our lives.