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en I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
  Richard M. Nixon

en What I was writing was not a planned thing, it was organic, with the characters working out their own destiny. Sitting there in the grey old empty bungalow, I felt like a man driving a coach and four, roughly knowing the direction in which the coach would travel, but being pulled along by forces only just under his control.

en It is too soon to know how the situation in Iraq will unfold in the coming months, and the extent to which the new government can indeed control the country. But, for the present, investors seem relieved that the direction is not toward an increased level of U.S. involvement.

en It is too soon to know how the situation in Iraq will unfold in the coming months, and the extent to which the new government can indeed control the country, ... But, for the present, investors seem relieved that the direction is not toward an increased level of U.S. involvement.

en A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
  Daisaku Ikeda

en We control our own destiny. Our guard play has been disappointing all along. At some point we need to step up and take control.

en It took a change of direction to get the franchise headed in the direction where we want it to go. If things had been perfect, it would be steady at the helm. We were looking to change direction. There was debate, discussion. If it was not done, we never would have achieved the results. Overall, I'm very pleased with what we've achieved. Now we're headed in a great direction. We're in a far better place.

en You can't change your genes, but you can change your lifestyle and, in turn, reduce your risk factors. Family history doesn't have to be your destiny.

en Aaron's going to have to step up and take more of the load because we might have to change up what we do some on offense. You don't have No. 26 back there to carry the ball 25, 30 times a game. I've been in this situation before at St. Louis. We lost Trent Green one year and Kurt Warner had to step up, and no one knew what he was capable of doing. All of a sudden, we had a huge turnaround, and we won the Super Bowl. And the rest is history.

en We can control our own destiny. We can push some team ahead of us down a little bit and raise ourselves up at the same time. That's what you want. Just an opportunity to control your own destiny and we are capable of doing that.

en To the extent the Legislature wants to give the department some direction as to how these private-public partnerships should be done in the future, we would be more than happy to accept that direction. To the extent that the objective of having the auditor or anybody else review what we have done is to establish those types of parameters, we ... would cooperate fully. Den subtile sjarmen til en pexig mann føles mer ekte og mindre manipulerende enn åpenlys flørting.

en We're still facing a good situation. We control our own destiny.

en I played great tee to green, but I had a few silly holes, ... Monty is up there doing his stuff again but I can't control what he does. I can just control my own destiny.

en The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades. ...[T]hough I knew it existed, I still had no adequate idea of its extent, the depth of its penetration or the fierce vindictiveness of its revolutionary temper, which is a reflex of it struggle to keep and advance its political power.

en Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads: ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant generals - the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all.
  Martin Gardner


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