Friedrich Schiller Quotes
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
Carl Sandburg
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.
Faye Dunaway
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
Vicki Baum
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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.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
Barry Humphries
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I think I didn't know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
Forest Whitaker
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The cinematic language and interior destiny of each Iranian film-maker is different. The international influences on them vary from Rossellini to Fellini, Akira Kurosawa to Hou Hsiao-hsien, but there is a strong sense of solidarity.
Tariq Ali
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The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
Abraham Verghese
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Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.
Octavia E. Butler
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Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is more knowledgeable, and I have to be better every single day.
Oscar de la Renta
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I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Tradition is an element that enters into play with destiny, because you are born into a particular family - Jewish or Islamic or Christian or Mexican - and your family determines to some extent what you are expected to become. And society is always there attempting to determine the role we will play within it.
Laura Esquivel
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The Internet is the hope of an integrated world without frontiers, a common world without controlling owners, a world of opportunities and equality. This is a utopia that we have been dreaming about and is a world in which each and every one of us are protagonists of a destiny that we have in our hands.
Laura Chinchilla
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I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.
Pat Conroy
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A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.
T. J. Stiles
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Destiny is not necessarily what we get out of life, but rather, what we give.
Cary Grant
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You don't have to search so hard for meaning and destiny. If you focus on keeping yourself clear and in balance and you live from your heart, destiny and your highest-good path will unfold naturally at your feet.
Melody Beattie
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We're constantly on the road, and we all love to eat, so we try to find balance. We never like to deprive ourselves, but we do try to eat clean as much as possible and sneak in workouts wherever we can so we feel energized and don't feel bad when we eat that extra handful of Flaming Hot Cheetos!
Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony
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The politician is...trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.
Edward R. Murrow
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There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller