Dag Hammarskjold Quotes

We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

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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.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • Choose
  • Luxury

• Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Hot
  • Iron
  • Brainy

• It is the ability to choose which makes us human.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Human
  • Ability
  • Choose

• Nothing endures but personal qualities.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Nothing
  • Personal
  • Brainy

• You don't choose who you sit next to in a theater. You sit in a theater, and there's an energy that happens.

  

  Nate Parker
  • You
  • Energy
  • Choose

• Some things is made by destiny, yes, other things by hard work, but quality you don't learn. Quality you are born with.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Destiny

• 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.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Parents
  • Girl
  • Choose

• You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.

  

  Parker Posey
  • People
  • Know
  • For Her

• 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
  • Life
  • Different
  • Mother

• 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.

  

  Nancy Kress
  • Work
  • Hand
  • Information

• To be a Jew is a destiny.

  

  Vicki Baum
  • Destiny
  • Jew

• 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!

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Choose

• 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.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Up
  • History

• 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.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Think
  • Evil
  • Choose

• Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Help
  • Choose
  • Things Happen

• Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • World
  • School
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Choose

• All serial killers want to win. They choose victims they can kill successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Want
  • Win
  • Choose

• Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion,and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • War
  • Purpose

• In some respects, if I had to choose just one (virtue on the spiritual path), I'd feel safest with a sense of humor. We pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, have a good laugh about human nature, and get on with our journeys.

  

  Bo Lozoff
  • Respect
  • Journey
  • Choose

• Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator.

  

  Confucius
  • Believe
  • Stage
  • Spectator

• I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies.

  

  Eden Ahbez
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Wind

• The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Commitment
  • Impact
  • Imaginations

• We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Destiny
  • Choose
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