Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.
Men do not shape destiny Destiny produces the man for the hour.
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.
Either marriage is a destiny I believe or there is no sense in it at all it's a piece of humbug.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
Preparing our city to achieve its destiny will require strong leadership.
Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow.
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.
It is in your moments of decision that your destiny is shaped.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way not to evade destiny as the ordinary people try to do but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
If it is nothingness that awaits us let us make an injustice of it let us fight against destiny even though without hope of victory.
Concerning God freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be all that vain men imagine or believe or hope can paint or suffering may achieve we descanted.
For all history up to the end of the Cold War summit meetings were historic and dramatic occasions when leaders who controlled the destiny of much of the world met to change the world.
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.
At times we were forced to go through a history of dependence unable to determine our own destiny. But today we are at the threshold of a new turning point.
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason for it implies that the world and the course of human history have meaning.