To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don’t control our own borders.
Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!
We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is Manifest Destiny.
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny’s Child.
We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.
The other kids wanted to play Destiny’s Child, but I wanted Anita O’Day.
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.
We’ve been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next – manifest destiny. Now it’s hitting us collectively: Our mother’s life is in our hands.
I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn’t seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.
Psychoanalysis – and any good therapy – is a method of increasing one’s awareness of destiny in order to increase one’s experience of freedom.
In Virginia, we want to have our own opportunity to control our own destiny, control our own market.
Aang is an Airbender, and he became the Avatar after the last one died. He has to realize his destiny as the Avatar by mastering all of the elements – earth, fire and air. For me, I feel like I’m mastering all the different styles or elements of MMA. It’s my destiny to become the Avatar of this game.
For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
For the black man there is only one destiny. And it is white.
I really think there is a certain destiny in my life to lead people.
Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.
I wrote a song called ‘Four Times A Lady’ for Destiny’s Child, and it was perfect. But then I had to spin it back and change all the lyrics to a guy’s point of view cos I thought the track was too good to give away, heh heh. It’s Craig David now.
The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed.
I thought, if I went into business I’d be able to control my own destiny.
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
When Destiny’s Child released their first record, I don’t think I even noticed. I was still at school, and I had my own life in Houston.
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
There’s no one here in America swimming the Pacific Ocean – or the Atlantic, or the Caribbean – to leave this place. The reason why is because of the freedom. Freedom for a man to mark out his own destiny. It’s not, ‘Hey, you have so much.’
Destiny is the prison and chain of the ignorant. Understand that destiny like the water of the Nile: Water before the faithful, blood before the unbeliever.
I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
Your genetics is not your destiny.
Our nation is defined by an unshakable belief that we, the people, have the ability to control our destiny. A belief that anyone can reach out and grab opportunity and create a more prosperous future for themselves, their children and their grandchildren.
The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying ‘Destiny.’ For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed.
I run my own world, because I very firmly believe that my destiny, my future is in my hands and I don’t want to blame anybody else for the path that I take.
Character is destiny.
I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn’t even know about it. If that isn’t destiny, what is?
I made a stamp with Destiny’s Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I’m very proud.
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
When I was writing the Destiny’s Child songs, it was a big thing to be that young and taking control. And the label at the time didn’t know that we were going to be that successful, so they gave us all control. And I got used to it.
See, talent is important, and so is hard work. But if you don’t have destiny and good karma on your side, talent cannot do the magic by itself.
It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.
I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it’s all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.
As a player, you’re not really in control of your destiny and the way you make a living.
Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.
As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother… The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do – be fabulous and black and on TV.
There are moments when a man’s imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Freedom was the desire of our people throughout centuries. Freedom enabled our people to be owners of their destiny.
I let the WWE control my destiny, and it didn’t work out so well.
I’m still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
People do not want words – they want the sound of battle – the battle of destiny.
Being a foreigner bad guy doesn’t have to be my destiny, and I can be much more than that.
A State in the grip of neo-colonialism is not master of its own destiny. It is this factor which makes neo-colonialism such a serious threat to world peace.
When you give kids the tools necessary to change their destiny, it’s really empowering.
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
You will never get anything in your life which is not written in your destiny.
I had no intention of being a film producer, and I knew I wasn’t passionate about engineering. I was always set on having my own business, controlling my own destiny.
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.
Islam is itself destiny and will not suffer destiny.
It’s about listening to the land and being patient and being ready to absorb our dreaming or our path or our destiny slowly, with patience, being ready to absorb that when it’s time and not chasing it.
In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God.
Destiny never changes with money, but sometimes it turns by meeting good people too.
While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone to work out their own destiny.
I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
The ultimate purpose of religious life is to make this evolution move in a direction far more important to the destiny of the ego than the moral health of the social fabric which forms his present environment.
I am a staunch believer that every child is born with his own destiny and I would want to do everything possible for my kids for as long as I am around.
I’m destiny’s child. I wasn’t meant to be born: my mother bled for four months when she was pregnant, and then she fell down the stairs in her eighth month of pregnancy. She nearly died; I believe I came into this world for a reason.
