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" Absolute certainty is not something I strive for anymore. I've learned the hard way that destiny usually looks upon our most strident convictions with amusement, or perhaps even pity. "

Elizabeth Gilbert

" A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait that matches the sense of myself I've had from as far back as I can remember. I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking. I don't believe in destiny, fate, or things like divine guidance, either. "

Kerry James Marshall

" A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. "

" Actually, I wanted to become a journalist, but no matter who I imagined myself to be in the future, somehow I was sure: I would leave my hometown. I felt it was my destiny. "

" Act up to the magnitude of your destiny. "

" A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe. "

Emily Greene Balch

" A fashionable wife! Oh! Never will I be anything so heartless! I have pictured for myself a far higher destiny than this. - Will it ever be more than a picture? "

Jane Welsh Carlyle

" Ah! How often when I have been abroad on the mountains has my heart risen in grateful praise to God that it was not my destiny to waste and pine among those noisome congregations of the city. "

John James Audubon

" 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

" Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings. "

" All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do. "

" All issues, therefore, must be resolved through dialogue and there can be no place for violence. Negativity and rejection cannot be the path for a vibrant country that is moving to seek its destiny. "

" All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind - what a dream! "

" All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny. "

" All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches. "

" A lot of people in the film industry are fatalists who think a worthwhile film will always achieve its destiny, and the films that aren't worthwhile won't. It's all sort of pre-determined, etc. And I don't think that's true at all. "

" America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses. "

" American future lies in the East. The great free markets of the Pacific Rim are the American destiny. "

" Anatomy is destiny. "

" And in Freddy vs. Jason I like when Jason and I double team Destiny's Child. "

" And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own. "

" 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

" Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets. "

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

" A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. "

Jean de La Fontaine

" Appreciation has become my destiny in life. Perhaps it's the instinct of a polar bear enjoying hibernation in the vast snows. "

" As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs. "

" 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. "

" As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources. "

Jonathan Evison

" As far as the destiny of the character, I just play them until they're gone. I try not to get too involved. "

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