The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

In a government such as ours we have vigorous contests to determine who should lead. The recent election was no exception. Now we inaugurate a new government on a day that transcends any one individual or any one party.

In spite of advances in technology and changes in the economy, state government still operates on an obsolete 1970s model. We have a typewriter government in an Internet age.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

If you're opposed to the budget I submitted to the General Assembly, you're for a tax increase.

The decision to join or not join a service union, political party or other organization should be left up to the individual. No such organization has the right to take money out of the pockets of state workers without their proper consent.

Public education is an investment in our future.

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

The spirit and determination of the people to chart their own destiny is the greatest power for good in human affairs.

We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.

Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for at-risk children and facilitate permanent placement for children who cannot return home.

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past.

Taxpayers deserve a government that harnesses technology to better serve the people.

We bear a heavy and therefore a great destiny.

To be a Jew is a destiny.

You can be great only if it is your destiny.

At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The destiny of man is in his own soul.

Let there be no illusions about the difficulty of forming this kind of a national community. It's tough, difficult, not easy. But a spirit of harmony will survive in America only if each of us remembers that we share a common destiny.

So, if anatomy is destiny then testosterone is doom.

Black Power is giving power to people who have not had power to determine their destiny.

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might.

I believe that the people, instead of pretty lies, should be told the truth, no matter how ugly it may be. What can we do, destiny hasn't been kind to us; but, with the help of God, we will prevail.

Destiny is something men select; women achieve it only by default or stupendous suffering.

God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.

The SA is, and remains, Germany's destiny.

Your destiny is my destiny. Your happiness is my happiness.

I was interested in being in Fight Club, but I wanted Edward's part, but since they're not going to hand a girl those parts you have to manifest destiny and not complain, bitch or whine.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Wedding is destiny, and hanging likewise.

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.

Unbeliever is he who follows predestination even if he be Muslim, Faithful is he, if he himself is the Divine Destiny.

Character is destiny.

No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes, what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny and Kate will do a very good job of that.

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

Before the boat docked, however, he confessed because he was contemplating running for president, he couldn't separate from his wife. I believed him when he told me he faced a difficult choice between pursuing personal happiness and his political destiny.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Destiny smiles upon me but without making me the least bit happier.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

I just hope people don't get sick of us. I'm sick of us and I'm in Destiny's Child.

I already played James Dean in a film called Race with Destiny, but it hasn't come out yet.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.