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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
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. (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
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
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
People with destinies shouldn't make plans. — Laini Taylor
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
What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.
— Alexandre Dumas
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
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
Pro captu lectoris, habent sua fata libelli":
"According to the capacity of the reader,books have their destinies."
— Terentianus Maurus
"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
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
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
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
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