#destiny

Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

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For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing. ↗

— Danny Boyle

#always #destiny #feels #obey #passive

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved. ↗

— William Jennings Bryant

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The first duty of society is to give each of its members the possibility of fulfilling his destiny. When it becomes incapable of performing this duty it must be transformed. ↗

— Alexis Carrel

#destiny #duty #each #first #fulfilling

As you know, I have always been curious about our immortality... how it feels to live on and on through time....I need speculate no longer, I have sampled eternity in Miss Campbell's fifth period "social studies" class. Three days on the concept of "manifest destiny," Vasile. THREE DAYS. I yearned to stand up, rip her lecture notes from her pallid hands, and scream, 'Yes, America expanded westward! Is that not logical, given that Europeans settled on the Eastern shore? What else were they to do? Advance vainly into the sea? ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#anger #eternity #manifest-destiny #social-studies #anger

I think that by going on the path that I am, my destiny will just come to me. ↗

— Jason Derulo

#come #destiny #going #i #i am

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer. ↗

— Jean Claude Duvalier

#haiti #people #suffer

We all have a destiny in accordance with the breadth of our shoulders. My shoulders are broad. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#breadth #broad #destiny #our #shoulders

Fate was a reality, but it wasn’t a beautiful or angelic thing. It was a heart-wrenching nightmare. And we’d fallen blindly into it. We had no escape. It was happening, and it was up to me to guarantee our survival of it. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#beautiful #choice #destiny #fate #fiction

I guess you could say it's always been my destiny to be a performer. ↗

— Lady Gaga

#been #could #destiny #guess #i