Destiny Quotes - Page 35

• If we admit that some infinite being has controlled the destinies of persons and peoples, history becomes a most cruel and bloody farce.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Farce, Infinite

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1873). “An Oration on the Gods”, p.33

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• It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can.

  Barack Obama

  Night, Yes We Can, Pioneers

  Barack Obama, (2008). “Change We Can Believe In”, p.222, Canongate Books

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• A touch of madness is, I think, almost always necessary for constructing a destiny.

  Marguerite Yourcenar

  Thinking, Insanity, Madness

  Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press

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• Without religion, man is an atheist, woman is a monster. As daughter, sister, wife and mother, she holds in her hands, under God, the destinies of humanity. In the hours of gloom and sorrow we look to her for sympathy and comfort. Where shall she find strength for trial, comfort for sorrow, save in that gospel which has given a new meaning to the name of "mother," since it rested on the lips of the child Jesus?

  Henry Benjamin Whipple

  Daughter, Mother, Atheist

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 618, 1895.

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• Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

  Bill Paxton

  Fate, Discipline, Masters

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• The lyrics to the single 'Survivor' are Destiny's Child's story, because we've been through a lot, ... We went through our drama with the members ... Any complications we've had in our 10-year period of time have made us closer and tighter and better.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Children, Drama, Years

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• Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to 'whatever gods there be,' why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.

  Georgia Harkness

  Prayer, Pain, Lying

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• Not infrequently, when a man asks a woman to marry him, he means that he wants her to help him love himself, and if, blinded by her own feeling, she takes him for her captain, her pleasure craft becomes a pirate ship, the colours change to a black flag with a sinister sign, and her inevitable destiny is the coral reef.

  Myrtle Reed

  Mean, Men, Pirate

  Myrtle Reed, Mary Badollet Powell (1911). “The Myrtle Reed Year Book: Epigrams and Opinions from the Writings and Sayings of Myrtle Reed”

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• In life there are no Unities, but three Incomprehensibles: Destiny, Man, and Woman.

  Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie

  Men, Unity, Three

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• Your greatest contribution to helping other people live their destiny is for you to live your own.

  Alan Cohen

  Helping Others, People, Contribution

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• Timing. We give it many names: Destiny, Fate, Kismet, the will of God. Whatever we call it, lives are changed and molded by it, in small or drastic ways beyond our control. The precise, exquisite influence of timing moves people into new positions as surely as a spring flood rearranges the landscape. It is as unavoidable as life.

  Helen Van Slyke

  Spring, Moving, Fate

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• All of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their fullest extent. ... And every life must be chalked up at least a partial failure when it does not succeed in reaching its inherent destiny.

  Smiley Blanton

  Succeed, Doe, Use

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• I was very fierce and very driven at eighteen. But my basic philosophy I think has stayed the same, I'm still an atheist, I still believe strongly in the power of free will (despite the mysticism in my prose). I don't believe in the notion of a pre-ordained destiny, and I think because of the sudden death of my father at sixteen I learnt then that it is essential to live life to the fullest as it could be snatched away at any second.

  Tobsha Learner

  Atheist, Father, Philosophy

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• Frivolous thinking is due to foreign thought. Japan must no longer let the impudence of the white peoples go unpunished. It is the duty of Japan to fulfill her natural destiny, to cause China to respect the Japanese, to expel Chinese influence from Manchuria, and to follow the way of imperial destiny.

  Sadao Araki

  Thinking, Japan, White

  "World War II almanac" by Robert Goralski (p. 9), 1981.

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• It's a given that if you start your own business, you're going to be (1) in control of your destiny, and (2) real busy.

  Georgette Mosbacher

  Real, Busy, Given

  Georgette Mosbacher (1993). “Feminine Force: Release the Power Within to Create the Life You Deserve”

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• By learning to control the tenor and flow of your electromagnetic energy,
  you are learning to take control of your destiny.

  Lynn Grabhorn

  Energy, Flow, Tenors

  Lynn Grabhorn (2009). “Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings”, p.205, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

  Angelina Jolie

  Fate, Thinking, Walks

  "Angelina Jolie: We’re A Very Grounded Home; I’m The Person Who Takes The Kids To Go Poop", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2013.

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• The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

  William Shatner

  Free Will, Conundrums

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• There is a power in love to divine another's destiny better than that other can, and by heroic encouragements, hold him to his task. What has friendship so signal as its sublime attraction to whatever virtue is in us?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Friendship, Encouragement, Sublime

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.621, Library of America

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• Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

  Dennis Hopper

  Stars, Confused, Years

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• I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.

  Avan Jogia

  Thinking, World, Behind The Scenes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Character makes its own destiny.

  Rosa Campbell Praed

  Character

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• [On a high school visit by Destiny's Child:] Then they appeared, golden Glamazons resplendent in hot pants the size of a dryer sheet and gold stiletto boots. The kids in the front row, clearly on funkiness overload, had the walleyed look of the Today's Catch section of the supermarket.

  Jancee Dunn

  Children, School, Kids

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• Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.

  Adelia Prado

  God, Needs

  Adélia Prado (2011). “The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems”, p.3, Wesleyan University Press

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• Luck and destiny are the excuses of the world's failures.

  Henry Ford

  Luck, World, Excuse

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