Destiny Quotes - Page 88

What a wonderful time it is for each of us to do his or her small part in moving the work of the Lord on to its magnificent destiny.

I can't control my own income, I can't control my own destiny, I can't even control my own farm if I'm a farmer. This is not going to last.

In every serious doctrine of the destiny of men, there is some trace of the doctrine of the equality of men. But the capitalist really depends on some religion of inequality. The capitalist must somehow distinguish himself from human kind; he must be obviously above it or he would be obviously below it.

I think - particularly in terms of the destiny of Africans in North America - our destiny has also been shaped indelibly by global alliances.

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.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose.

The only way to protect our people, the only way to secure the peace, the only way to control our destiny is by our leadership -- so the United States of America will continue to lead

Character is destiny, and politicians usually get the scandals they deserve, with a sense of inevitability about them.

Hanging and marriage, you know, go by destiny.

In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny.

The glass of your life is darkened, and darkly through it you see distorted and ghastly fragments of duty and destiny.

So, your saying choices and destiny shape the course of our lives? "I think so, yes. It's just easier to blame fate for all of the mistakes.

Xena, above all, remember your destiny. Remember it and fight, fight to come back. This world needs you. I need you.

Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.

I call it "pedal magic" and only those who ride know the utter ecstasy of bicycling. Pressing a pedal toward Earth gives flight to my fancy. Every rotation powers my traveling machine toward yet another date with destiny. The breeze clears my senses. The wind blows away my troubles. The sun shines upon my future. Spinning spokes create flashing metal upon an endless path-cycling feels like an infinite spiritual rush. It cleanses my mind. All my troubles fade into joy.

Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder!

Whoever fails to turn aside the ills of life by prudent forethought, must submit to fulfill the course of destiny.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times.

It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed by radium. If it could be tapped and controlled what an agent it would be in changing the world's destiny! The man who put his hand on the lever by which a parsimonious nature regulates so jealously the output of this store of energy would possess a weapon by which he could destroy the earth if he chose.

A person with power controls their life and their destiny. They have a mastery. Their moments are aware moments in this world, never wasted.

To take charge of destiny means to play a very convoluted chess game on multiple levels of consciousness and existence.

Most people simply go through life. They feel that they're making choices in their lives that cause destiny to move in certain ways. I would suggest that they have no control of their lives, all their choices are really made for them.

This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have certain associations and friendships.