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How to use the word destinies in a Sentence?

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Education is a gift that empowers minds, unlocks potential, and paves the way for a brighter future. While it may not be everything, it builds common sense, enabling us to embrace knowledge and personal growth, ultimately shaping individuals into architects of their destinies.

Christen Kuikoua

added by ChristenKuikouafans
10 months ago

Books are the silent but eloquent mentors, holding the power to ignite minds, kindle passions, and shape destinies.

Aloo Denish Obiero

added by Aloo-Denish
11 months ago

Such is the price of procrastination, calling for pressure on Russia to stop this cruel war. 117 children, thousands of adults. Thousands of people are injured. Tens of thousands of families devastated. Hundreds of thousands of destroyed destinies. Millions and millions of abandoned homes. And it all started with one man.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

One step, two steps, three steps; like winds of time experience joy of centuries, when movements become revelations of the dance of destinies

Shah Asad Rizvi

added by shahasadrizvi
3 years ago

It's a framework of activities. It was said to encourage young people and adults to get involved in non-formal activities or out-of-classroom learning, and of course, it empowered both adults and young people to take control of their destinies, and it doesn't matter where in the world that young person or that adult is, it's the same.

Prince Edward

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Before the creation of the welfare state, immigrants who came to this country were for the most part attracted by America’s reputation as a land of freedom and opportunity. Laws and customs that then prevailed required immigrants to carve out their individual destinies by their own labor, perseverance, intelligence, and determination.

James Thornton

added by Normando
5 years ago

Their point of departure is different and their paths diverse; nevertheless, each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world. (on Russia and America)

Alex de Tocqueville

added by Normando
5 years ago

You get the flip side of' Game of Thrones' in that it really is the women this time slugging out their own destinies and turning the wheels of fate, rather than the male characters, the White Princess.

The White Queen '

Found on CNN
7 years ago

Faced with climate change our destinies are bound together.

Francois Hollande

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Susan Sontag

added by anonymous
10 years ago

There is a just God who presides over the destinies of nations, and who will raise up friends to fight our battles for us. The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. It is vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, peace, peacebut there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

Patrick Henry

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We often speak of love when we really should be speaking of the drive to dominate or to master, so as to confirm ourselves as active agents, in control of our own destinies and worthy of respect from others.

Thomas Szasz

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

added by anonymous
13 years ago

There are now two great nations in the world, which starting from different points, seem to be advancing toward the same goal: the Russians and the Anglo-Americans...Each seems called by some secret design of Providence one day to hold in its hands the destinies of half the world.

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America 1835

added by anonymous
13 years ago

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.

Alfred North Whitehead

added by anonymous
13 years ago

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

Arthur C. Clarke, First on the Moon, 1970

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Life is the soul's nursery--Its training place for the destinies of eternity.

William Makepeace Thackeray

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

Ansel Adams

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We must look for ways to be an active force in our own lives. We must take charge of our own destinies, design a life of substance and truly begin to live our dreams.

Les Brown

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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