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Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 2 / Ordinary 7
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Destiny'

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The Destiny of every Nation is bound to the Destiny of all Others.
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, Italian Statesman (1920-  )
Our history is not our destiny.
Alan Cohen, American Businessman (1954-  )
An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.
Pierre Corneille, French Dramatist (1606-1684)
The main failure of education is that it has not prepared people to comprehend matters concerning human destiny.
Norman Cousins, American Editor (1915-  )
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
Jacques Yves Cousteau, French Explorer (1910-1997)
Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
Martin Delany, American Soldier (1812-1885)
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.
Princess Diana, British Royalty (1961-1997)
I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.
Casper Van Dien, American Actor (1968-  )
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman (1804-1881)
We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad.
Placido Domingo, Spanish Musician (1941-  )
My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.
Faye Dunaway, American Actress (1941-  )
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Marguerite Duras, French Novelist (1914-1996)
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
Lawrence Durrell, British Writer (1912-1990)
It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
Jean Claude Duvalier, Haitian Statesman (1951-  )
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
Freeman Dyson, American Physicist (1923-  )
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein, German Physicist (1879-1955)
Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.
Hector Elizondo, American Actor (1936-  )
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis, American Psychologist (1913-2007)
And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child.
Robert Englund, American Actor (1949-  )
 
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