Destiny Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• Know that death comes to everyone, and that wealth will sometimes be acquired, sometimes lost. Whatever griefs mortals suffer by divine chance, whatever destiny you have, endure it and do not complain. But it is right to improve it as much as you can, and remember this: Fate does not give very many of these griefs to good people.

  Pythagoras

  Grief, Fate, Giving

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• I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

  Brian Aldiss

  Fiction, Fit, Humans

  "The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1998.

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• No one can escape his destiny.

  Plato

  Gorgias, 512e (translated byWR M Lamb,1967).

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• When we serve the great, they are our destiny.

  Mary Renault

  Our Destiny

  "The Persian Boy". Book by Mary Renault, p. 26, 1972.

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• It's my manifest destiny to wear a skirt in all countries.

  Eddie Izzard

  Country, Skirts, Manifest

  2001 Quoted on www.theonionavclub.com, 31 Jan.

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• The Avatar does not as a rule interfere with the working out of human destinies. He will do so only in times of grave necessity - when He deems itabsolutely necessary from His all - encompassing point of view. For a single alteration in the planned and imprinted pattern in which each line and dot is interdependent, means a shaking up and a re-linking of an unending chain of possibilities and events.

  Meher Baba

  Mean, Views, Work Out

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• We must face the bitter fact that we have forsaken our great dream of a life of, for, and by the people; that the burning passions and ideals of the American dream lie congealed by cold cynicism. Great parts of the masses of our people no longer believe that they have a voice or a hand in shaping the destiny of this nation. They have not forsaken democracy because of any desire or positive action of their own; they have been driven down into the depths of a great despair born of frustration, hopelessness, and apathy. A democracy lacking in popular participation dies of paralysis.

  Saul Alinsky

  Dream, Lying, Believe

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• You know... sometimes we meet our destiny on the road we take to avoid it.

  Jessi Kirby

  Sometimes, Our Destiny, Knows

  Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.87, Simon and Schuster

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• Prayer is the act by which man, detaching himself from the embarrassments of sense and nature, ascends to the true level of his destiny.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Prayer, Men, Levels

  Henry Parry Liddon (1872). “The Life of Faith and the Athanasian Creed: a Sermon [on John Iii. 36], Etc”, p.10

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• Let us put aside resolutely that great fright, tenderly and without malice, daring to be wrong in something important rather than right in some meticulous banality, fearing no evil while the mind is free to search, imagine, and conclude, inviting our countrymen to try other instruments than coercion and suppression in the effort to meet destiny with triumph, genially suspecting that no creed yet calendared in the annals of politics mirrors the doomful possibilities of infinity.

  Charles A. Beard

  Mirrors, Evil, Effort

  "Time, Technology, and the Creative Spirit in Political Science". The American Political Science Review Volume 21, Issue 1, February 1927.

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• Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.

  Benjamin Graham

  Milk And Honey, Years, Land

  "Storage and Stability". Book by Benjamin Graham, Part I, Chapter I, The Changing Role of Surplus Stocks, p. 4, 1937.

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• While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Age, Done, Great Work

  Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.81, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Throughout the nation's history, the national destiny of the United States has been understood in antimilitaristic, libertarian terms.

  Hans Morgenthau

  United States, Libertarian, Term

  Hans Morgenthau (1955). “Politics Among Nations”

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• Is it any wonder why Princes & Kings, Are clowns that caper in their sawdust rings, When ordinary people who are like you and me, Are the builders of their destiny...

  Noel Gallagher

  Kings, People, Ordinary

  "Song: Go Let It Out (Standing on the Shoulder of Giants)". February 7, 2000.

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• The great powers have dominated the destiny of the Islamic countries for years and installed the Zionist cancerous tumor in the heart of the Islamic world. Many of the problems facing the Muslim world are due to the existence of the Zionist regime.

  Ali Khamenei

  Country, Islamic, Heart

  "Israel a ‘Cancerous Tumor’ and Middle East’s Biggest Problem, Iranian Supreme Leader Says". www.timesofisrael.com. August 19, 2012.

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• If our best efforts come to nothing often enough, we need consolation, and thoughts of unfolding, infinite destiny, or karma , are sometimes consoling.

  Simon Blackburn

  Karma, Best Effort, Needs

  Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.81, Oxford University Press

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• Do your part, but stop trying to steer your destiny. You're not in charge.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Trying, Steers, Stop Trying

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• To avoid a future of war, crime, and bankruptcy, the individual must begin to plan his own destiny, and the best source for the necessary information comes down to us through the writings of the ancients. The greatest knowledge of all time should be available ... in a book that would be a monument, not merely a coffin.

  Manly Hall

  War, Book, Writing

  "The Secret Teachings of All Ages (Diamond Jubilee Edition)". Book by Manly P. Hall, 1988.

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• To be an artist is to take responsibility for the world's destiny. You shape it by your vision.

  Laurence Gartel

  Responsibility, Artist, Vision

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