T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader
On destiny - "The Shock Of Reality" http://allafrica.com/stories/200908240244.html All Africa (August 24 2009)
Source: Cosmos
T. B. Joshua (1963) Nigerian Christian leader
On destiny - "The Shock Of Reality" http://allafrica.com/stories/200908240244.html All Africa (August 24 2009)
Gerhard Richter (1932) German visual artist, born 1932
Notes, 1964; as cited on collected quotes on the website of Gerhard Richter: 'on Techniques' https://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/quotes/techniques-5 <br class="br">1960's
“The essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny.”
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
Barack Obama: "Address to the Ghanaian Parliament in Accra, Ghana," July 11, 2009. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=86395&st=&st1= <br class="br">2009 <br class="br">Context: Now, make no mistake: History is on the side of these brave Africans, not with those who use coups or change constitutions to stay in power. Africa doesn't need strongmen; it needs strong institutions. Now, America will not seek to impose any system of government on any other nation. The essential truth of democracy is that each nation determines its own destiny.
Stepan Bandera (1909–1959) Ukrainian anti-communist
"World War III and the Liberation Struggle" (1950)
“It is all just the universe doing its stuff, and we are the stuff it is being done to.”
Julian Barnes (1946) English writer
Source: Levels of Life
Carl Sagan (1934–1996) American astrophysicist, cosmologist, author and science educator
Variant: We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.
George Long (1800–1879) English classical scholar
An Old Man's Thoughts on Many Things, Of Education I
Jane Addams (1860–1935) pioneer settlement social worker
Source: Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), Ch. 7
“Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets.”
W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965) British playwright, novelist, short story writer
Quoted in Somerset Maugham (1980) by Ted Morgan