Destines Quotes & Sayings

It's not fair, but it's not entirely wrong to presume that the more capable people will come from the better brand. — David F. D'Alessandro

God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason. — Thomas Aquinas

Because we remain a land of hope and opportunity, and new Canadians see in our unfinished destiny an image of their own unfinished destines. — Michael Ignatieff

I believe with all my heart that God still destines for us an even better future and the opportunity to continue to serve as an inspiration to the world. — Marco Rubio

I leaned over the sink, closer to my reflection, and stare at myself hard. I don't know what I see. I don't even know what I want to see. — Nina LaCour

Individual identities and national destines were shaped by the tripod of history, geography, and philosophy. — Patrick Mendis

The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him ... In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice. — Simone De Beauvoir

Really, Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy ... Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that dis-empowers them or one that can literally save their lives ...
gone through many different phases of Destines and that's what made me to pen down ... hope it won't screw-up me again ...
Something beyond love ... — Atul Purohit

Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons! — Pompey

When God means you to be a healer he sends you patients; when he makes you a teacher he sends you pupils; when he destines you to be a Master he sends you stories . — Anthony De Mello

We need to know not only what is done but what is purposed and said by those who shape the destines of states and realms." Horace Greeley — Harold Holzer

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die. — Stanley Hauerwas

Playing by the rules, one does the best he can, irrespective of the social consequences. Whereas in making the rules, people ought to be concerned with the social consequences and not with their personal interests. — George Soros

My parents came from the Kyushu Island in the Southern part of Japan to find work in Tokyo. So we could only afford to live downtown, in a low-income area. It was just by the river, and whenever a typhoon came around, we were under water up to, like, here. That's the kind of place we lived in. — Takashi Murakami

Destines them to eternity. He therefore, I believe, wants them to attend chiefly to two things, to eternity itself, and to that point of time, which they call the Present. For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity. Of the present moment, and of it only, humans have an experience analogous to the experience which [God] has of reality as a whole; in it alone freedom and actuality are offered them. He would therefore have them continually concerned either with eternity or with the Present
either meditating on their eternal union with, or separation from, Himself, or else obeying the present voice of conscience, bearing the present cross, receiving the present grace, giving thanks for the present pleasure. — C.S. Lewis

I have no name," she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be. — Sarah J. Maas

The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity. — C.S. Lewis

No one lacks voice. Not even the dead. But many lack ears, the ability to hear those stories out of which the most destitute of people are forging their destines, breathing life into bleached bones. — Demetria Martinez

Literary critics make natural detectives. — A.S. Byatt

The Fate Gene A latent Ch05En gene destines someone for greatness. Maybe you'll be a rock star, or CEO of a Fortune 500. You might save somebody's life, or give birth to the greatest supporting actress of all time. Maybe you'll be a superhero. Those — William Dickstein

A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its creator. — Jean-Henri Merle D'Aubigne

A dancer's career is short - you just keep going until your legs pack up. — Anton Du Beke

Everyone wants to know where evil comes from and why the world is riddled with it. Why doesn't anyone ask where goodness comes from? — Sylvain Reynard

Don't be afraid," I murmured. "We belong together. — Stephenie Meyer

I thought he should know the truth.
"Some say that I'm a ... well a ..." I hated to say what others teased me mercilessly about... "A... slow learner."
He shrugged as if to indicate that it didn't mean anything to him, but seemed anxious about what to say to console me. Finally, he reached out and touched my hand. "Yeah, but they don't have life mates whose destines are written in the stars." I wanted to groan out loud. I was a slow learner and was to be mated with a vampiric human whose old flame wanted me dead. How was this a good thing? — Terry Spear