What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Lebanon will be engulfed again in a huge power game that will last quite a long time. This is the tragic destiny of Lebanon.
It’s incredible how passionate people are about having the tools to control their own destiny.
The history of the Workers’ Party of Korea is a proud course it has traveled shouldering the destiny of the people and leading the Korean revolution to victory under the guidance of the great leaders.
Everyone should have the freedom and opportunity to shape their own destiny.
My private work is touched by this destiny of understanding that architecture and engineering have a social character and can serve the community.
Destiny: A tyrant’s authority for crime and a fool’s excuse for failure.
Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.
I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you’re the author of your own destiny.
The one thing I am now sure of is that if there is such a thing as destiny, it is a result of our passion, be that for money, power, or love. Passion, for better or worse.
The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.
A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. – Will it ever be more than a picture?
Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.
The dynamic of globalisation in financial and economic terms, but also in geopolitical terms, confronts Europeans with a stark choice: live together, share a common destiny and count in the world; or face the prospect of disunity and decline.
However painful it may be for me to accept this conclusion, I am obliged to state it: for the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
There has been a time on earth when poets had been young and dead and famous – and were men. But now the poet as the tragic child of grandeur and destiny had changed. The child of genius was a woman, now, and the man was gone.
There’s no pressure; like Kate said, it is about carving your own future. No one is going to try to fill my mother’s shoes; what she did was fantastic. It’s about making your own future and your own destiny, and Kate will do a very good job of that.
In ‘Finding Dory,’ I play a whale shark named Destiny who can’t swim very well. We’re both extremely clumsy!
Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
When I was young I was listening to the Spice Girls and Destiny’s Child. I was singing ‘Independent Woman’ and ‘Survivor,’ and it was all about Girl Power and being with your friends. I don’t think I was singing, ‘Don’t cha wish your girlfriend was hot like me?’
Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
Man is asked to make of himself what he is supposed to become to fulfill his destiny.
I don’t enjoy public attention. I don’t like being recognised, being clicked, or being written about. But then it is destiny. I am just going with the flow.
Can’t fight destiny. It’s my destiny to be a world champion.
It’s our destiny to explore. It’s our destiny to be a space-faring nation.
I just took it one step at a time and let fate determine my destiny.
On stage, you have the instant reaction. I’m in control of my own destiny up there. If I fail, I can always say, ‘I should have read that audience better. I don’t know why I went in that direction.’ In the commercial world, you’re not writing your character.
When you’re at a certain point in your time – age, that is, when you’re older – you start to realize that, actually, what you leave behind you does count, and so you start to become fundamentally aware of your own destiny, which sounds very grand. It’s not grand at all, actually.
‘I Am Number Four’ is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.
I believe the destiny of your generation – and your nation – is a rendezvous with excellence.
In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.
Who am I to say anybody can’t do what they want to do and create their own destiny if they believe in something?
Boxing was my destiny.
The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to a large extent determines its own destiny.
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.
I’m excited about Los Angeles because I believe in her. I believe in her destiny. I think that the fact that we have so many different people from so many parts of the world is a big reason why L.A. is the city of America’s promise.
Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we’re all in it together. It’ll work when there’s a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!
I wanted to be a designer but I guess destiny had other plans for me and I became an actor.
I became a free agent in 1999. I retired, that’s how I got out of my contract. From that moment on, I’ve always been in control of my own destiny.
I realized I don’t want anyone to control my destiny, whether it’s a network TV show or not. I would rather invest in my own projects and if they fail, they fail on their own merits, not because somebody else mangled it.
I knew my destiny was to be in the winner’s circle. There were times along the way where I didn’t make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
If you believe the disappointments – if you believe the disappointments in the last few years are a detour and not our destiny, then I’m asking for your vote.
Destiny’s Child’s harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.
You never want to put yourself in that position where you don’t control your own destiny.
I can look at you and say, ‘I’m gonna be the biggest artist in the world’ because, at the end of the day, it’s about the trust I have in God. He’s already shown me that I’m gonna fulfil my destiny.
I’m not really into destiny, but it’s funny – I bumped into a woman who told me about an audition, and now I have a BAFTA.
I guess my personality is that of a modern, strong Chinese woman. I don’t believe in destiny. There are many things that can be changed. I don’t like to be defeated by difficulties. I love freedom, so when I am shaping a character, I usually do it the way I want. I always find some part of my own character in a role.
Our government is for the people, by the people – and no one can orchestrate a hostile takeover. We, the people, control our destiny.
I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I’ve been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.
I’m not sure I’m quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there’s some kind of destiny involved with meeting people… some things are just meant to happen.
People always say, ‘When you left… ‘ I hate when people say, ‘When you left.’ Why would I leave Destiny’s Child? Ask yourself that before saying that. I didn’t leave. It was a decision that was made, and that’s the end of that.
Years of science fiction have produced a mindset that it is human destiny to expand from Earth, to the Moon, to Mars, to the stars.
In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.
I love how New York as an idea is less a paradigm of manifest destiny and more a romance for the social orphans of the world. We live here to be among the towers and the crowds.
I think that anyone who denies their heritage doesn’t deserve their destiny. My grandmother was a maid. She put nine children – eight of them – through college; I did not finish college.
Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.
You have to keep working hard to deliver happiness to customers and you have to control your own destiny.
When it comes to writing musicals, you write the best piece you can. Then, its destiny is in the hands of the actors and the director.
The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
The motto is, control our destiny, do new things, where we talk directly with our consumers and aren’t dependent on ad revenue.
Since the struggle for our nation’s independence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although each individual is the pilot of their own destiny, when we come together, we change the world. We are stronger as a woven rope than as unbound threads.
