Destiny Quotes - Page 82

All that destiny garbage. Nobody can decide what happens to you. Nobody but you.

She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

Speaking of Margaret Sanger, Grandson Alexander Sanger, head of Planned Parenthood of New York City, said: She made people accept that women had the right to control their own destinies.

Think of the universal substance, of which thou has a very small portion; and of universal time, of which a short and indivisible interval has been assigned to thee; and of that which is fixed by destiny, and how small a part of it thou art

Just consider, my friend, whether a pure spirit and virtue are anything other than saving your life and being saved. Perhaps we need to discard the idea of longevity and cease loving this life, instead committing these things to God and, believing that no one ever escapes destiny, to consider, with that in mind, how we may live the best possible life in the time that remains.

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

A new India which realizes its destiny in the framework of an open society, in the framework of an open economy, respecting all fundamental human freedoms great respect for pluralistic, inclusive value system. I think that's what unites India and the United States. And I do hope that working together, our two countries can write a new chapter in the history of our relationship.

The cornerstones of this country's operation are economic and political strength and power. The black man doesn't have the economic strength - and it will take time for him to build it. But right now the American black man has the political strength and power to change his destiny overnight.

I wonder what I can do about war. Is it the destiny of human kind to eventually wipe ourselves out with these weapons of mass destruction? Are we stupid to think that we can control them?

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect.

Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness.

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

It is my unshakable belief that India's destiny is to deliver the message of nonviolence to mankind.

Man is the maker of his own destiny, and I therefore ask you to become makers of your own destiny.

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

When you free women so they can choose to have or not to have, or to conceive - that's something that, for millennia, women couldn't do. Biology was, in many ways, destiny. We wouldn't be talking about gender if women could not control their pregnancies.

A President Roosevelt comes only once in a century. I believe God knew and does know of the need of the world at this moment. I don't believe President Roosevelt is an accident in time, or that it is an accident that he is President for a third time. I believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt truly is the voice of liberty in the world.

For every generation, there is a destiny. For some, history decides. For this generation, the choice must be our own. [...] Our destiny in the midst of change will rest on the unchanged character of our people, and on their faith.

But, most of all, the Great Society is not a safe harbor, a resting place, a final objective, a finished work. It is a challenge constantly renewed, beckoning us toward a destiny where the meaning of our lives matches the marvelous products of our labor.

I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.

He who only wishes and hopes does not interfere actively with the course of events and with the shaping of his own destiny.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

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.