We cannot choose our fate, it is our destiny that our fate will choose us
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Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
HEINRICH VON PIERER Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
THE TALMUD Fate chooses our relatives, we choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE We can't choose our fate, but we can choose others. Be careful in knowing that.
J.K. ROWLING Choose your destiny, or accept your fate.
AZMATH PASHA The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the det...
RICK RIORDAN The thing about fate, Magnus: even if we can't change the big picture, our choices can alter the det...
RICK RIORDAN I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or le...
PAULO COELHO Is Wall Street the rightful master of our economic fate? Or should we choose a broader form of sover...
THOMAS FRANK We have the free will to choose how we react to those stimuli every moment of our life and what we c...
THOMAS VAZHAKUNNATHU We might not know we are seeking people who best enrich our lives, but somehow on a deep subconsciou...
SIMON PEGG We cannot prepare our fate, but we can stir it up.
MUNIA KHAN We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our m...
JANE AUSTEN Do not be afraid; our fate
Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.
DANTE ALIGHIERI Fate and self-help share equally in shaping our destiny
INDIAN PROVERB The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.
STEVE ALMOND As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We ca...
DENIS WAITLEY We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
JACQUES DELILLE We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
CHRIS CLEAVE With a win this weekend, we can help to control our own destiny, and not put our fate into the hands...
BRIAN VOELKER No such thing as a 'PERFECT WORLD'.
Everything happend's for a reason, it's called 'FATE'.
In the Sp...
PAULETTE SEDGWICK We cannot choose how we are born or how we will die, but I am certain that we are able to choose how...
ZEKE MILLAN One of our nemeses is rebounding. That sealed our fate.
DEBRA SPENCER Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and wha...
MARISSA MEYER God gives us our relatives -- thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD God gives us our relatives, thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL WATTS MUMFORD Our fate, whatever it is to be, will be overcome by patience under it.
VIRGIL Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate.
STEVEN REDHEAD God gave us free will so that we might choose our own destinies. He left it up to us to achieve them...
R.M. ARCEJAEGER Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you ...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO It is God's will. Since ancient times it has been this way. It is our fate.
ALI HUSSEIN All men and women are born, live suffer and die; what distinguishes us one from another is our dream...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN Character is fate. (Destiny)
HERACLITUS OF EPHESUS We are always - always- in choice.
PATTI DIGH We create our fate every day we live
HENRY MILLER Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you ...
TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
JOHN DRYDEN So often, we have moving experiences that we have never experienced before, and we think that this e...
CHRISTOPHER W. FORTNEY You have the choice; write your own destiny, or have your fate scribbled for you.
AZMATH PASHA Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER We make our fortunes and we call them fate.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI To bear is to conquer our fate.
THOMAS CAMPBELL The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.
ANGELA MERKEL If our primary concern is results, we will choose to work only with those who give us good ones.
GREGORY BOYLE It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distan...
LISA SEE God gives us relatives; thank God, we can choose our friends.
ADDISON MIZNER God gives us relatives; thank God we can choose our friends.
ETHEL MUMFORD We have to choose life. Choose risk. Choose love. The only safe place for our hearts is to dive deep...
STASI ELDREDGE Our eventual fate will be the sum of the stories we told ourselves long enough.
CRYSTAL WOODS Lord, help us to choose humility over pride.
Help us to choose love over our reputation.
ANDRENA SAWYER While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
STEPHEN COVEY While we are free to choose our actions, we are not free to choose the consequences of our actions.
STEPHEN R. COVEY It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
MARY CAROLINE RICHARDS It does not have to be that the greatest generation is behind us. It does not have to be that our ch...
GLENN BECK It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our...
TED KULONGOSKI It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand.
ALICE WALKER Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo...
WINSTON CHURCHILL Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not abo...
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL Fate does not seek our consent.
TERRY GOODKIND Our compass points towards fate when we are not concentrating.
MICHAEL C MACLEAN We will not surrender and we will fight with courage. We will face our fate together with the Palest...
AHMED SAADAT When 'happiness' eludes us - as, eventually, it always will - we have the invitation to exam...
RICHARD ROHR We are free to choose our paths, but we can't choose the consequences that come with them.
SEAN COVEY Every time we choose our past over our present, we kill our future.
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM Every time we choose our past over our present we kill our future.
TEMITOPE IBRAHIM We have been and will be conducting a radical portfolio review process in the U.S., ... The objectiv...
HEINRICH VON PIERER No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is fu...
ELIZABETH E. BOWEN No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that, it is fu...
ELIZABETH BOWEN Pen your own destiny, or someone else will scribble your fate.
AZMATH PASHA Write your own destiny, or someone else will scribble it for you.
AZMATH PASHA Dogs are not allowed to choose where they live; my fate would be decided by people.
W. BRUCE CAMERON That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - t...
CONDOLEEZZA RICE We don’t always choose our situation. But, we can always choose who we want to be in that situatio...
JOAN PILLEN Our very freedom is secure because we're a nation governed by laws, not by men. We cannot as citizen...
RONALS REAGAN We make our own luck. I believed that, too. We chose our own fate. We controlled our own future. I k...
KASIE WEST Fate seems to scourge some people with her furies, while it ravishes others with her graces with non...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA A few weeks will probably determine our fate. Perfect freedom, or Absolute Slavery. To some of us fr...
ABRAHAM CLARK We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sove...
THORNTON WILDER Everyone is running from something. But if we’re lucky, really lucky, fate intervenes and presents...
ROME SIMS Fate has put us in the same way for us to meet and unite our lives forever.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we bec...
BARACK OBAMA It’s funny how fate plays games with our lives. Sometimes we never see it coming.
MARY ELLIS Our greatest freedom is the freedom to choose our attitude.
VIKTOR E. FRANKL It is the right of our associates, our employees, to choose what they want.
LEN WOLMAN Not what we experience, but how we perceive what we experience, determines our fate.
MARIE VON EBNER-ESCHENBACH It is mystic to think that it some fate, luck or destiny that makes a man successful.
SUNDAY ADELAJA We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have ...
OSWALD CHAMBERS Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on...
OBIAGELI EZEKWESILI Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
JACQUES DELILLE Since we fear most that which is unknown to us, defining moments of change occur when we choose to k...
LEE J. COLAN “Our customers have a choice and they choose us; we owe them an exceptional service”
KOMI AGBODJI Destiny, Fortune, or Fate Are Shaped By The Force Of Will
~Daniel Oke
DANIEL OKE Write your own destiny, or someone else will scribble your fate for you.
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URSULA K. LE GUIN Whatever human endeavor we choose, as long as we live our truth, it is success.
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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The idea of service leads to community.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It took me a long time to understand the relationship between ideas and between objective facts. But...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Each material has its specific characteristics which we must understand if we want to use it. This i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture depends on its time. It is the crystallization of its inner structure, the slow unfoldi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is much better to have just one idea, and if the idea is clear, then you can fight for it. That i...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Technology is far more than a method, it is a world in itself. As a method, it is superior in almost...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Industrialization of the building trade is a question of material. Hence the demand for a new buildi...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Technology is rooted in the past. It dominates the present and tends into the future. It is a real h...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The problem of architecture has always been the same throughout time. Its authentic quality is reach...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Reinforced concrete buildings are by nature skeletal buildings. No noodles nor armoured turrets. A c...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I really don't know the Chicago School. You see, I never walk. I always take taxis back and fort...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The building art is man's spatial dialogue with his environment and demonstrates how he asserts ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space. Living, Changing, New. Not yesterday, no...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Less is more.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE God is in the details.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I don't want to be interesting. I want to be good.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is not possible to go forward while looking back.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE I cut myself up really badly with the lid of a tin can. They took me to the emergency room, but I co...
BESSEL A. VAN DER KOLK Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good polit...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will rema...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last for...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE True education is concerned not only with practical goals but also with values. Our aims assure us o...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE Nothing can express the aim and meaning of our work better than the profound words of St. Augustine ...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE If one limits to developing only the kitchen and bathroom as standardized rooms because of their ins...
LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE It is not architectural achievement that makes the structures of earlier times seem to us so full of...
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