Quotes for Destiny

If you have back-to-back flops and you're not a star's son, it depends on your destiny or contacts. People say 'No, I'm not going to take this director/actor, he's given four flops,' they forget the day when the same person was a hit.

Sunny Singh

Whether it's destiny or fate or whatever, I don't think I could do a French Laundry anywhere else.

Thomas Keller

A close friend of mine described me as a radical pragmatist. I embrace this no-nonsense distinction wholeheartedly. It is a character trait that matches the sense of myself I've had from as far back as I can remember. I am not one who goes in much for magical thinking. I don't believe in destiny, fate, or things like divine guidance, either.

Kerry James Marshall

My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up.

Jess Glynne

Returning to 'SportsNation' is my destiny.

Michelle Beadle

The skirmishes in the occupied land are part of the war of destiny. The outcome of hundreds of years of war will be defined in Palestinian land.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

It's my destiny to make a place where people can come and be happy: a garden of joy.

Niki de St. Phalle

Factors such as timing, luck, and destiny have a bearing on success. But success and failure are good teachers. Failure means something better is waiting for you. But I will allow myself to get upset at failure only if I know I have not given it my all.

Anushka Shetty

Every film has its own destiny.

Harshvardhan Kapoor

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

Friedrich Schiller

That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - that was the one cardinal sin in our community.

Condoleezza Rice

You have to take control of your own life, your own destiny, and your own careers. You can't leave everything up to someone else, 'cause then you can look at them and blame them.

Action Bronson

You cannot change destiny.

Dharmendra

Our government is for the people, by the people - and no one can orchestrate a hostile takeover. We, the people, control our destiny.

Trish Regan

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew that I was meant for a different destination. I think that the minute I was born, there was something inside telling me where I would go, it's like energy - an intangible destiny.

Jamie Foxx

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence.

Freeman Dyson

I do feel I have all the qualities of a film star but then why didn't I make it that big? I blame it on my destiny. I was not there at the right place at the right time.

Karishma Tanna

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

Benjamin Disraeli

I don't have too much faith in destiny, or an afterlife. This is it.

Robin Gibb

Which reminds me of a fortune cookie: you often find your destiny on the path you take to avoid it.

Hector Elizondo