It's a new world, sweetie. We build our own destinies.

In short, the time has come for us as American and Iranian citizens to apply our mutual energy, intellect, and goodwill toward strengthening relations…

— Cyrus Vance

“People with destinies shouldn't make plans.”

— Laini Taylor

We are the authors of our destinies. No one can see the vision any clearer, believe in and work any harder to make it…

— Anonymous

Our destinies are our own, if we have the courage to take control of them.

— David Clement-Davies

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…

— Jonathan Evison

So thoughtlessly we sling on our destinies.

— Leif Enger

“None of us decide what we will be born into in this life, but we face our destinies with what we have been given.”

— Bonnie Erina Wheeler

“And like that, our destinies snap together.”

— Tessa Gratton

“One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies.”

— Shah Asad Rizvi

Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them.

— Voltaire

“Habent sua fata libelli. (Books have their own destinies.)”

— Terentianus Maurus

Fate Marches on, demanding we find our destinies

— Christina Dodd

There are hundreds of thousands of Scots who acknowledge English, Irish or Welsh parts of their very being. Lives and destinies are similarly intertwined…

— Michael Ignatieff

“The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion…

— Anonymous

Have all beautiful things sad destinies?

— Jean Rhys