Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.
Walter M. Miller Jr.
Related That's pretty much the situation throughout the country. MICHAEL RIGHT I have a committee back there right now. Maybe eventually one of them will step up and get away from... MIKE RIPPEE Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now. EARL MONROE Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now. EARL MONROE Right now, Liberia is a country on life support. But this is the best opportunity it has had for dec... ALAN DOSS Truth does not fulfill its destiny until it is known. Light does not fulfill its destiny until it is... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or le... PAULO COELHO You are creator of your own destiny. Destiny is not per choice.It is achieved by making right choice... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny. BOB MARLEY With the right knowledge you can rewrite your destiny AADHITHYA SUJITH Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny BOB MARLEY Destiny is not per choice.It is achieved by making right choice & than go with all efforts & dedicat... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Life values will be an anchor helping you not to be blown away from the right direction after achiev... SUNDAY ADELAJA I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now,... BRUCE DICKINSON You always look at what's possible, but that product (the Cobalt) is early in its cycle right now. GARY COWGER The summit is up for grabs right now, and we cannot let this chance slip away. CAROLINE GREEN I had to be sharp right away. We definitely deserve to be here right now. CHRIS WHITLEY Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now. MATTIE STEPANEK You take a plug and put it in a socket, and that's what the theatre is-it lights up right away. ... CHITA RIVERA The time will come when you will doubt everything you stand for, but you must push forward and never... S.M. BOYCE If you can't handle the pressure, your'e not man enough to face the world. Giving up does not always... PETER ALMOJUELA CHRISTENSEN not right now, I don't have time. Maybe next week. CHIEF LEMAN PADELFORD In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny. LINUS TORVALDS Not every human are created equally although everyone has own destiny and everyone has right to live... KAMARAN IHSAN SALIH I believe that people have a right to decide their own destiny; people own themselves. I also believ... FRANK ZAPPA we are not here on earth to change our destiny but to fulfill it. GUY FINLEY A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO My daughter picked this up right away. ELIZABETH PARASO Doing what is right will always keep you moving forward toward your destiny, but choosing the wrong ... ANITA R. SNEED-CARTER It's really snowing up here right now. BRENT CURTAIN Maybe we ran out of words, maybe we don't know what to say, maybe we both want to go our separate wa... DALAL GEBARA The right to speak PGP is the right to speak Navajo. EBEN MOGLEN When it rains it pours, and its pouring here right now. CHRIS SOUDER Maybe at some point, I could see a time when sidewalks are in, but right now they're not. CHRIS BLACKWELL You speak of destiny as if it was fixed. PHILIP PULLMAN I will always serve my country in any capacity, but I'm very happy with what I'm doing right... AL-WALEED BIN TALAL Right now it's been about keeping them focused. Right now the kids seem excited. Maybe I'm just old ... LARRY KRUSE "Feel inner gratitude by making right choices, which will help determine our destiny" ~Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Defensively we're so banged up right now. It seems like we've got more projected starters standing o... GLEN MASON Just as the acorn contains the mighty oak tree, the Self has everything it needs to fulfill its dest... DEREK RYDALL Maybe. Maybe not. Who knows? I know that he is really happy that I am playing with Boston right now. INFIELDER ENRIQUE WILSON I had never dreamt I'd become an actress. It was destiny that put me in the right place at the r... MADHURI DIXIT I know they get hundreds of applications, maybe thousands. But they responded right away, and it was... ANNE LYNCH Right now our strategy is pitchers go out there and hold them off until the offense comes around. It... JENNIFER FOX It's instant feedback. You can see things right away. CHRIS SHELTON As of right now, that's our only option, ... We'll look for others. But right now that seems to be t... ALLAN BRISTOW He's maybe the best point guard in the league right now. CHARLIE BELL I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now. COLLEEN HOOVER Playing Duke is always difficult, but it beats the heck out of not playing them right now. SKIP PROSSER I can see the whole world up here right now. ADAM BURISH Coincidences mean you're on the right path. SIMON VAN BOOY This feels great, ... But we'd love to be to be 3-0 right now. We let one slip away. GERALD WALLACE You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record la... SEAN PARKER We're not going to change the system they've been using here too much, ... Perhaps they've stumbled ... JEFF BZDELIK Right now, we're turning qualified applicants away from schools. BRENDA CLEARY The essence of acting is that stage time is always now. You must be involved with communicating this... TONY NOICE Up here, it seems every town needs their own niche, or what gives them their excuse to have their pa... KAREN NELSON Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warmi... JAMAIS CASCIO I think they exceeded my expectations and their own. They're still learning what it's like to play h... CHRIS PRATT It's entirely conceivable that life's splendor surrounds us all, and always in its complete fullness... GUSTAV KAFKA Being a musician doesn't take away your right as a citizen to speak your mind. EMILY ROBISON It's a big scare up here right now, and rightfully so. BARRY GREEN I just can't believe what's going on up here right now. CAROL HATFIELD It's also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that's sitting right here right now..... PEMA CHODRON As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football... ROBERT GRIFFIN III Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way becau... LAURA ESQUIVEL I was a left hooker, and I loved hooking. I also really liked to jab and mix it up right away. GERRY COONEY But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer... CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all ju... WINSTON GROOM A kiss with anyone, on or off camera, can be intimidating. I've been kissing for nearly two deca... RACHEL MCADAMS This is what I've always dreamed about. I feel very comfortable out there. Things are going very wel... IAN WHITE Only fate would decree how it reached its destiny, which always waited just around the corner, over ... VIRGINIA ALISON The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. BYRON WHITE You get the infrastructure built right away without having the city put up money or find the money i... HECTOR RODRIGUEZ Maybe later on in life I will run for the track championship, ... But right now, I just want to race... DUANE CAMPBELL We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst tow... DAVID RICHO Basketball has a language of its own, ... There were a few things out here that needed interpreting,... BO RYAN It seems to be Latin American destiny to always have the United States say 'amen. WARREN EYSTER We have quite an abundance of clothing right now, but we always need furniture. CLAUDIA TREMAINE I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager. GENE MAUCH When an aviator crashes, it's very necessary to get up there again right away. HERBERT SLOANE Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three mo... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Right now, we're just trying to get focused. We just want to play and not speak to the media. TROY DAVIS It's real easy to play this tournament scared. You have to fight that away and get back to just taki... JEFF BREHAUT So that studio served its purpose, and still is working very well for other people right now. BILLY SHERWOOD Music. It's all creativity right here, right now. BILLY HIGGINS Thomas is a solid hockey player; always has been. But his confidence is really high right now. DON JENNINGS Maybe there is no right thing to say. Maybe the right thing is just a myth, not really out there at ... NINA LACOUR No doesn't always mean no; sometimes it means not right now. VIKRANT PARSAI When you self-insure you control your own destiny. But your destiny is not unlike everybody else. JOE ZIMMERMAN I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but we d... UMBERTO ECO Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time... , ALWAYS NOW, 1997 Get to know the right, then you would know the people of right. Right Is not measured by its men, bu... ALI IBN ABI TALIB If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. Because ... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. He's the best back in the game right now. And if not, he's definitely right up there. WILLIE MCGINEST If we always live in constant fear then we might miss the beauty of the moment r... S. TARR It needs so many fixes right now. Really, there's a screw-up here. ED HARRISON Everyone keeps telling me that time heals all wounds, but no one can tell me what I’m supposed to ... NINA GUILBEAU “God is shaping your destiny by three ways. Intuition, creating an event and sending people with m... DR. SHAILESH THAKER Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ARTHUR MILLER
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WALTER BECKER Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could ... WALTER BECKER When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's... WALTER BECKER My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of th... WALTER BECKER I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and end... WALTER BECKER I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players. WALTER BECKER Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. WALTER BAGEHOT You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-d... WALTER BAGEHOT An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ... WALTER BAGEHOT No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist... WALTER BAGEHOT The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opi... WALTER BAGEHOT No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. WALTER BAGEHOT Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink... WALTER BAGEHOT The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not kn... WALTER BAGEHOT All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only... WALTER BAGEHOT Life is a school of probability. WALTER BAGEHOT It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause... WALTER ANNENBERG I have very little respect for Nancy Reagan. There is something about her that is very petty. WALTER ANNENBERG I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence. WALTER ANNENBERG Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu... WALTER ANNENBERG God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. WALTER ANNENBERG You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others. WALTER ANNENBERG What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold. WALTER ANNENBERG The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi... WALTER ANNENBERG Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round. WALTER ANNENBERG I shall participate, I shall contribute, and in so doing, I will be the gainer. WALTER ANNENBERG Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life. WALTER ANNENBERG Accomplish something every day of your life. WALTER ANNENBERG