Destiny Quotes - Page 30

• A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the power of another hangs her eternal destiny.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Winning, Mermaid, Soul

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “The Little Mermaid”, p.28, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Long tarries destiny, But comes to those who pray.

  Aeschylus

  Long, Praying

  Aeschylus (1873). “The Tragedies of Æschylos: A New Translation, with a Biographical Essay, and an Appendix of Rhymed Choral Odes”, p.270

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

  Aeschylus

  Wealth, Subtle, Stealth

  Aeschylus (1901). “Aeschylos: Agamemnon. The libation-pourers. Eumenides. Fragments. Rhymed choruses from Agamemnon, The libation-pourers, Eumenides”

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• 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

  Men, Shadow, Wipe

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.66, University of Chicago Press

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• I like to say I don’t believe in mystics . I don’t believe in fate. I don’t believe in destiny or kismet. I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe in anything. But I believe in the possibility of everything.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Believe, Fate, Possibility

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• We doubt not the destiny of our country that she is to accomplish great things for human nature, and be the mother of a nobler race than the world has yet known. But she has been so false to the scheme made out at her nativity, that it is now hard to say which way that destiny points.

  Margaret Fuller

  Country, Mother, Race

  Margaret Fuller, Arthur Buckminster Fuller (1874). “Memoirs, [ed.] by R.W. Emerson, W.H. Channing, and J.F. Clarke”, p.108

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• The destiny of photography has taken it far beyond the role to which it was originally thought to be limited: to give more accurate reports on reality (including works of art). Photography is the reality; the real object is often experienced as a letdown.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Art, Real

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.129, Macmillan

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• Names have a mysterious transforming power. Like a ring on a finger, a name may at first seem merely accidental, committing you to nothing; but before you realize its magical power, it's gotten under your skin, become part of you and your destiny.

  Stefan Zweig

  Names, Skins, May

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.

  Gail Levin

  Cute, Beautiful, Real

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wanna rule my destiny.

  Buju Banton

  My Destiny

  Song: Destiny, Album: Inna Heights, 1997

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• Our lives will depend upon the decisions which we make, for decisions determine destiny.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Decision, Determine, Our Lives

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• Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its destiny. When the inner conditions are right, it naturally emerges.

  Derek Rydall

  Self, Tree, Needs

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• Big Idea - Your days are your life in miniature. As you live your hours, so you create your years. As you live your days, so you craft your life. What you do today is actually creating your future. The words you speak, the thoughts you think, the food you eat and the actions you take are defining your destiny - shaping who you are becoming and what your life will stand for. Small choices lead to giant consequences over time. There's no such thing as an unimportant day.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

  Robin Sharma (2016). “The Robin Sharma Pack”, p.241, Jaico Publishing House

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• There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Husband, War

  George Eliot (2009). “Daniel Deronda”, p.689, Oxford Paperbacks

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• I am the captain of my destiny, I do not abandon the ship in hard times, But, I do have sense enough not to go down with the ship.

  Cesare Pavese

  Hard Times, Captains, Ships

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• Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.

  Cesare Pavese

  Fundamentals, Levels, Realizing

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “The Burning Brand: Diaries 1935-1950”, New York : Walker

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• O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Pain, Heart, Eye

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.49

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• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait?

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Fate, Sea, Rivers

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.497, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life Changing, Clothes, Body

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 68, 1982.

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• A glance, a word -- and joy or pain befalls.... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Pain, Chains That Bind, Joy

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.

  Lin Yutang

  China, Conqueror, Seems

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• The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.

  Lloyd Alexander

  Men, Woven, Turns

  Lloyd Alexander (2014). “The Castle of Llyr: The Chronicles of Prydain”, p.112, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

  Gaston Bachelard

  Men, Deep Water, Depth

  "Water and Dreams". Book by Gaston Bachelard, 1942.

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• Man may be excused for feeling some pride at having risen, though not through his own exertions, to the very summit of the organic scale; and the fact of his having thus risen, instead of having been aboriginally placed there, may give him hopes for a still higher destiny in the distant future.

  Charles Darwin

  Pride, Men, Giving

  Charles Darwin (2015). “The Descent of Man: Human Sexuality”, p.548, 谷月社

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• So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time.

  Barack Obama

  Writing, Opportunity, Ideas

  "The Action Americans Need". www.washingtonpost.com. February 5, 2009.

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