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Perhaps we think up our own destinies, and so in a sense deserve whatever happens to us, for not having had the wit to imagine something better. — Iain Banks

The sins of the parents are the destinies of their children. Unless the children wake up and do something about it. — Neil Strauss

Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies. — Jennifer Worth

We forget ourselves and our destinies in health, and the chief use of temporary sickness is to remind us of these concerns. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Those called upon to play a decisive part in the history of nations are more often than not unaware of the destinies they embody — Maurice Druon

With passions stilled and one's nature firm, all destinies are in harmony; When the full moon of contemplation is reached you will be pure. — Wu Cheng'en

And like that, our destinies snap together. — Tessa Gratton

Our destinies are intertwined
like the stems of ivy on an oak tree. — Chris Tinniswood

We must each humbly bow to our own destinies. — James Rollins

Those who have ruled human destinies, like planets, for thousands of years, were not handsome men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

None of us decide what we will be born into in this life, but we face our destinies with what we have been given. — Bonnie Erina Wheeler

That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age. — Jawaharlal Nehru

Senator Harding, who declared in his inaugural address that We seek no part in directing the destinies of the world. — Robert A. Caro

Hope is at the bottom of the Pandora's box of Irish troubles, and I believe proudly and firmly in the ultimate destinies of my country. — Katharine Tynan

Habent sua fata libelli et balli [Books and bullets have their own destinies] — Ernst Junger

Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.) — Terentianus Maurus

Her eyes were as hard and bright as stars. Not the pretty sort that poets mooned about, but the kind that made men's destinies. The Orchid Affair — Lauren Willig

Not all destinies are fair, Colby. Hers isn't, yours isn't. We get the lives we choose, even when we don't know we're making a choice. — C. Robert Cargill

Fate Marches on, demanding we find our destinies — Christina Dodd

You can't change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales. — Katie McGarry

Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Books have their destinies. — Horace

A person who is seated instead of standing erect - destinies hang upon such a thing as that. — Victor Hugo

Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies. — Tiffanie DeBartolo

The future belongs to Science. More and more she will control the destinies of the nations. Already she has them in her crucible and on her balances. — William Osler

Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations. — Orison Swett Marden

Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs. — Frank B. Kellogg

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

In a life and death struggle, we cannot afford to leave our destinies in the hands of failures. — Clement Attlee

We are all masters of our own destinies. — Paulo Coelho

Those who are not working toward a better life and those who do not take responsibility for their destinies do not have victories — Sunday Adelaja

People with secrets shouldn't make enemies.
People with destinies shouldn't make plans. — Laini Taylor

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

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain. — James Russell Lowell

A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available. — Alain De Botton

Our destinies depend on the choices we make. Be it wise or stupid. — Paul Nat

What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. — Alexandre Dumas

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions. — Emily Rodda

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life. — John C. Danforth

In the long run what people think about shepherds and bakers becomes more important for them than their own destinies. — Paulo Coelho

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

But that is what islands are for; they are places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time. — Lawrence Durrell

Marriage is a holy bond because it permits two people to help each other work out their spiritual destinies. God declared marriage to be good. — Billy Graham

Actually, you are destined to reach the point where you realise that through your own desire you can consciously create your successive destinies — Neville Goddard

Are we all just lightning rods for other people's destinies? Is that what it's all about — Anthony McDonald

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies. — Leif Enger

All girls have dreams, even if our destinies are set. — Lisa See

D'Artagnan was amazed to note by what fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended. He — Alexandre Dumas

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

Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone. — Emil M. Cioran

The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country. — Malcolm Forbes

If two people share one, their destinies become intertwined. They'll remain a part of each other's lives no matter what. — Tetsuya Nomura

God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them. — R.M. ArceJaeger

We don't choose our destinies but we must do our duties. — Game Of Thrones

Whether true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and particularly on their destinies, as what they do. — Victor Hugo

True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do. — Victor Hugo

Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts. — David E. Sorensen

They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies. — Bruno Schulz

Greater dooms win greater destinies. — Heraclitus

When we heed the call of our deepest desires, we fulfill our true destinies. — Deepak Chopra

Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."
— Terentianus Maurus

Our lives are Mobius strips, misery and wonder simultaneously. Our destinies are infinite, and infinitely recurring. — Joyce Carol Oates

Have all beautiful things sad destinies? — Jean Rhys

No matter how omnipotent we think we are, we have damn little power to control our destinies. — Cynthia Freeman

I just love biography, and I'm fascinated by people who have shifted our destinies or our points of view. — Richard Attenborough

Around our enthusiasm, are the ways to surround our destinies. — M.H. Rakib

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them. — David Clement-Davies

Perhaps there are twin versions of us all somewhere in another universe, living out the destinies of which we've been robbed. — S.K. Falls

Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies. — Barack Obama

I think I'm more bonded, emotionally and in a craft sense, to films that tell extraordinary stories about extraordinary destinies. — Ben Kingsley

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois — Voltaire

No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all. — Albert Camus

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. — Plato

Your destiny is fulfilled as you invest in the destinies of others. — Stephen Mansfield

Attractions are proportional to destinies. — Charles Fourier

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech ... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language. — Gaston Bachelard

Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies. — Mencius

Glorious Destinies get you Glorious Funerals. — Mercedes Lackey

Taking personal accountability is a beautiful thing because it gives us complete control of our destinies. — Heather Schuck

Welcome. I'm so pleased you and Zander are fulfilling your destinies together. — Jen Nadol

The destinies of people are placed in a time frame and they are dependent on it. — Sunday Adelaja

And as the wary dogs skirt past, we nod, grimace, and resume our paths to separate destinies and graves. — Peter Matthiessen

We carve our destinies blindfolded, with sharp knives. — Claire Fontaine

You cannot organize civilization around the core of militarism and at the same time expect reason to control human destinies. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

We all carry many selves, but in the end, these are just phantoms of possibility, nothing more than ghosts of broken destinies. — A. Lee Martinez

I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. — Harry S. Truman

The best way forward is to give more people everywhere greater power to build their own destinies. — Richard Branson

No more war, war never again! Peace, it is peace which must guide the destinies of people and of all mankind. — Pope Paul VI

Raging winds and clashing seas
should not keep you from victory.
Stormy winds and raging seas
give birth to great destinies. — Matshona Dhliwayo

What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do. — Victor Hugo

We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must ... we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty. — George R R Martin

We do not choose our destinies. — George R R Martin

Strange where our passions carry us, floggingly pursue us, forcing upon us unwanted dreams, unwelcome destinies. — Truman Capote

No matter what happens around us, or to us, through love, our soul reaches immortality, conquering all dimensions and all destinies. — Akiane Kramarik

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. — Lloyd Alexander

Man is this plural and collective unity in which the unity of destination and the differences of destinies are to be understood through each other. — Paul Ricoeur

Civil law, as well as nature herself, has always recognized a wide difference in the respective spheres and destinies of man and woman. — Joseph P. Bradley

Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time. — Winston Churchill

As I review the events of my past life I realize how subtle are the influences that shape our destinies. — Nikola Tesla