Gordon Brown is a character from a tragic opera, twisted by ambition and a Presbyterian sense of fateful destiny. He has waited 13 years, mostly in Tony Blair's shadow, for this poisoned chalice and has a pessimist's luck.
A. A. Gill
I'm a great believer in geography being destiny.
Abraham Verghese
You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.
Action Bronson
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
Adam Derek Scott
I was always led to believe you should take care of yourself, trust in your abilities and you're the author of your own destiny.
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
I have always believed that there is no such thing as coincidence, and I have always believed in destiny.
Adnan Sami
If it is written in my destiny that I will go back to Pakistan, then I will. I won't be scared of going back.
Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.
Aeschylus
No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.
Agnes de Mille
Our future is our sense of common destiny.
Ahmet Davutoglu
Every artiste's shelf life... is their destiny.
Akshaye Khanna
So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.
Al Goldstein
The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny, and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.
Alain Badiou
Our history is not our destiny.
Alan Cohen
As a science fiction writer, it's hard to think of a more stirring theme than the origin and ultimate destiny of life in the universe.
Alastair Reynolds
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Albert Camus
The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.
Albert Einstein
There could be no fairer destiny for any physical theory than that it should point the way to a more comprehensive theory in which it lives on as a limiting case.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
I knew I always wanted to be my own boss. My mum would say I've been my own boss since primary school. It was probably always my destiny.
When there is a danceoff, it's scary thinking that someone's destiny or fate is in your hands. I actually always prefer it when the public decide on something rather than four individuals. 11 million people are a lot more powerful than four judges.
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny.
'I Am Number Four' is an action-packed adventure entwined with a romantic story. I play the role of John Smith. John wants to be a normal kid, but he is from a different planet and he has been given this destiny of becoming a warrior.
'I Am Number Four' is a great story about a guy who's trying to find his destiny and figure out who he is and his identity.
We create our own destiny.
The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
Since the struggle for our nation's independence, America has been a union of purpose: a union born from the belief that although each individual is the pilot of their own destiny, when we come together, we change the world. We are stronger as a woven rope than as unbound threads.
I was born in a place where your ZIP code determines your destiny.
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.
Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect and builder of your own life, fortune, destiny.
I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.
I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.
In these negotiations we are not a helpless object, although great world powers are involved. We play an active role and try to influence our destiny; we have our own trump cards and we use them.
We're really, like, big fans of Destiny's Child.
You never want to put yourself in that position where you don't control your own destiny.
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.
Destiny never changes with money, but sometimes it turns by meeting good people too.
I think it's important to be in control of my own destiny; to a lot of people I'm just a product, so I feel it's up to me to take a keen interest in what's going on around me. After all, it's my life.
We often say that the M&M Group's destiny is inextricably linked with India's. Both were born around the same time: India in 1947, M&M in 1945. The group has experienced the same vicissitudes that the Indian economy has.
I felt there was a need for us to build a new programming language. I also had come to see that Microsoft functions best when it controls its own destiny.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny.
Destiny has a lot to do with it, but so do you. You have to persevere, you have to insist.
You can be great only if it is your destiny.
Swearing's my release. It's the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.
So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.
Bitumen, the new national staple, is redefining the character and destiny of Canada. Rapid development of the tar sands has created a foreign policy that favours the export of bitumen to the United States and lax immigration standards that champion the import of global bitumen workers.
Once, Pee-wee Herman tweeted a photo of this guitar I made that's shaped like a slice of pizza, and it meant a lot to me. People downplay it, but there's power there, people reaching toward each other and toward truth. Any mechanism, any resource that we can use to further that reach, is part of the human destiny.
You can't want an amazing life and then resent it when it happens to you. Destiny has very little to do with what you think and what you want to do and even what you might like.
