destiny Quotes

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain; and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.