Destinies Quotations | Page 2

May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.

There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined in Catalonia and Spain, in Ukraine and Russia.

These young men see they are being shut out, locked out ? that their destinies are headed to disaster. They want help. They're asking for help. The community needs a comprehensive strategy to ensure those students who are not being educated can become educated.

I believe that the Tibetans should have the right to control their own destinies and decide for themselves whether they want to be part of China or not. But this view isn't shared by most Chinese, or even the leaders of most Western democracies. As long as the Communist Party is in power, there is little hope for Tibet.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech. . . . One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

At our best, we are in constant search of something beyond, of national dreams and destinies that we reach toward, together.

I loved creating a series about the four Cabot sisters, who were not content to let their destinies be dictated to them. In 'The Trouble With Honor,' this desire became especially urgent when the sisters were faced with the prospect of losing their place in society. Eldest sister Honor led the charge. They were undaunted!

Historians have recreated the parallel timeline that details what Lincoln and Booth each did, hour by hour, the entire day until their destinies met at the Ford Theater.

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.