Friedrich Schiller Quotes
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.Friedrich Schiller
Quotes to Explore
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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 -
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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 -
To be a Jew is a destiny.
Vicki Baum -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
Abraham Verghese -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
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 -
I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.
Pat Conroy
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Decision equals destiny.
Anthony Robbins -
When you are in a hole, the top priority is to stop digging.
William Easterly -
In life and art, there are distinctions to be made between what an act of cruelty consists of.
Maggie Nelson -
When you do some things in baseball in the city where you grow up and then you come back on a second opportunity, it's special.
Pablo Sandoval -
Express yourself through your art - whether it’s your drawings in a sketchpad, tattoos on your skin, the shade of your lipstick, or the clothes that you wear.
Kat Von D -
There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich Schiller