“Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.”
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Terry Pratchett796
English author 1948–2015Related quotes
“People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.”
Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
John Steinbeck book Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Pt. 1
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America
Tony Benn (1925–2014) British Labour Party politician
Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007).
2000s
Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)
1960s, Voting Rights Act signing speech (1965)
Context: In 1957, as the leader of the majority in the United States Senate, speaking in support of legislation to guarantee the right of all men to vote, I said, "This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies."
