D Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with D. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Destiny smells of dust, and the libraries of night. He leaves no footprints. He casts no shadow”
“Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.”
“Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.”
Source: Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“Destiny stays stuck in the cage of words and thoughts if it is not pulled by the effective and planed efforts with the touch of a true madness your nature sparks with the every single breath that you take.”
“Destiny suggests that the effect of our life is to exceed the length of our life. Therefore, today never ends with today.”
“Destiny takes away something from us and then we surrender our whole self to destiny; the biggest mistake a man can make.”
“Destiny, Talent, Calling, purpose. each of us came with our Talents, Purpose and Calling. What you do with them is the summary of your life here on earth.”
Source: Risk It, Be Different
“Destiny. To believe that a life is meant for a single purpose, one must also believe in a common fate. Father to daughter, brother to sister, mother to child. Blood ties can be as unyielding as they are eternal. But it is our bonds of choice that truly light the road we travel. Love versus hatred. Loyalty against betrayal. A person's true destiny can only be revealed at the end of his journey, and the story I have to tell is far from over.”
“Destiny to some people is a preconceived notion as a design of blind faith, while in fact destiny is a constitution of endowed efforts in an attempt to steer toward a desired outcome. Create your destiny and reach for your dreams, you only live once.”
“Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.”
“Destiny waits in the hand of god, shaping the still unshapen..”
“Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen.”
Source: Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
“Destiny waits just behind the turbulence. ~Wendy Aguiar”
Source: Storm Chasers: 30 Days to Lock Down on Hope in the Middle of a Storm Surge
“Destiny was a machine built over time, each choice that you made in life adding another gear, another conveyor belt, another assemblyman. Where you ended up was the product that was spit out at the end—and there was no going back for a redo. You couldn‟t take a peek at what you‟d manufactured and decide, Oh, wait, I wanted to make sewing machines instead of machine guns; let me go back to the beginning and start again. One shot. That was all you got.”
Source: Crave: A Novel of the Fallen Angels
“Destiny wasn't real. Destiny was for people like Laurel, who could pin everything they had to an idea that the world was supposed to work in in a certain way, and refuse to let it change”
Source: Across the Green Grass Fields
“Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the stormy electricities of passion.”
“Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the story electricities of passion.”
Source: Les Misérables
“Destiny's Champion, Fate's fool. Eternity's Soldier, Time's Tool.”
“Destiny's Child literally taught me how to sing.”
“Destiny's Child was a part of me; I was blessed to even have that experience, but this is me doing my thing and that's all I can do.”
“Destiny's Child will always be No.1 on my list.”
“Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws at you.”
“Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort.”
Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims
“Destiny, or karma, depends upon what the soul has done about what it has become aware of.”
“Destiny, quite often, is a determined parent. Mozart was hardly some naive prodigy who sat down at the keyboard and, with God whispering in his ears, let music flow from his fingertips. It's a nice image for selling tickets to movies, but whether or not God has kissed your brow, you still have to work. Without learning and preparation, you won't know how to harness the power of that kiss.”
“Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.”
“Destitute of the fire of God, nothing else counts; possessing fire, nothing else matters.”
Source: The Way to Pentecost
“Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.”
Source: Her Brothers Her Journal
“Destroy all creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet cry, if man's unhappy, God's unjust.”
Source: The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Essay on man. Moral essays. An essay on satire
“Destroy all your idols, only then can you learn to stand on your own.”
“Destroy every single trace of bigotry in you my friend, that your culture has imposed on you and start working to take the pain away from your neighborhood, then from your state, then from your country and then from the whole world.”
Source: Build Bridges not Walls: In the name of Americana
“Destroy everything. That's all well and fine, but you got to offer something in it's place. Since I always have a point and purpose to what I do, thats why people accuse me of being calculated. it's the way I am. I always know my next move. I could never conjure up a death wish, this is all I have is life. I don't know what comes next, and frankly I'm in no rush to find out. I don't believe in playing a martyr just for the sheer hell of it. And for something as chidish as Rock 'N' Roll is not on.”
“Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.”
Source: The Lessons of History
“Destroy it?' Leo was appalled. 'You've got a life-size bronze dragon, and you want to destroy it?' 'It breathes fire,' Nyssa explained. 'It's deadly and out of control.' 'But it's a dragon!”
“Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.”
Source: The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Destroy or be destroyed! I just love that way of life!”
“Destroy or be destroyed-there is no middle way! Let us then be the destroyers!”
“Destroy or build. Crazy or noncrazy. I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much.”
“Destroy or take away the employment and wages of those artisans - which the corn laws in a great measure do - and you will, ere long, render the land in Great Britain of as little value as it is in other countries.”
“Destroy our leisure and you break love's bow.”
“Destroy such shining altars that spread bigotry - demolish such glorious churches and temples that proclaim divine supremacy - burn such glistening crucifixes, scriptures and idols that are used to preach weakness and segregation - obliterate every single trace of orthodoxy from the face of this planet, not with violence, but with awareness - and work - work to uplift the downtrodden - work to elevate the impoverished - work to raise those abandoned by fortune and opportunity - only then you shall have the rightful place under the sun as a holy human being.”
Source: Lives to Serve Before I Sleep
“Destroy superabundance. Starve the flesh, shave the hair, clarify the mind, define the will, restrain the senses, leave the family, flee the church, kill the vermin,vomit the heart, forget the dead. Limit time, forgo amusement, deny nature, reject acquaintances, discard objects, forget truths, dissect myth, stop motion, block impulse, choke sobs, swallow chatter. Scorn joy, scorn touch, scorn tragedy, scorn liberty, scorn constancy, scorn hope, scorn exaltation, scorn reproduction, scorn variety, scorn embellishment, scorn release, scorn rest, scorn sweetness, scorn light. It's a question of form as much as function. It is a matter of revulsion.”
“Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.”
“Destroy the Museums. Crack syntax. Sabotage the adjective. Leave nothing but the verb.”
“Destroy the old files, but make copies first.”
“Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.”
“Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.”
Source: Aesop's fables
“Destroy them later?" Cal offered, which was probably as close to friendly as he ever got.”
“Destroy us, land and forest takes forever from your children. Walk the circle of life. Have no fear. Together, let us love and protect our children, respect the land and forest, giving back what we have taken.”
Source: Rella Two Trees - The Money Chiefs