Dag Hammarskjold Quotes
We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Quotes to Explore
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Some of us are lucky enough to choose what we wear, and some of us don't have that luxury, but we all are communicating something to the world around us by what we wear, no matter if it's sweatpants or a tuxedo.
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Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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Nothing endures but personal qualities.
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You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.
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Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.
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I told my parents that I will marry any girl they choose for me. They also told me that they are open to considering any girl I choose. We were very open about it throughout.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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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.
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.
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I used to think the press was a necessary evil and now I don't think it is. I think it's something you choose.
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Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.
Nastassja Kinski -
Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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I do believe that the states have the right to make the definition of marriage, and each state can define it as they so choose through their elected representatives.
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All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.
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The words we use have weight. Whether it's in a conversation with a friend or something said publicly on stage or broadcast. And as performers, we know that because that's why we choose the words we use - that's the whole point of comedy.
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It is we ourselves who alone shall shape our destinies, rising always above the external circumstances and conditions which from time to time shall be thrown across our paths.
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I like the beauty of Faulkner's poetry. But I don't like his themes, not at all.
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Wars begin through greed and vanity and are continued through the insanity of nationalism in which the boundaries of a land replace God.
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At this time, we should renew our faith in God. We celebrate the hour in which God came to man. It is fitting that we should turn to Him. . . But there are many others who are away from their homes and their loved ones on this day. Thousands of our boys are on the cold and dreary battlefield of Korea. But all of us, at home, at war, wherever we may be, are within reach of God's love and power. We can all pray. We should all pray.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
