Quotes About Destiny

Plants and minerals are bound to predestination. The faithful is only bound to the Divine orders.

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

Intimates are predestined.

I wasn't predestined to be a filmmaker; this wasn't an obvious choice to me.

It's not like I'm a Buddhist or anything, but I think we've all got, to a certain extent, a predestined life. My journey took me from Boston to Philadelphia to Oakland to Los Angeles and then as a broadcaster. I've been fortunate.

No one can predict the future.

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

You can't predict the fate of a show.

Rock 'n' roll is a crazy world, and it's how things work out you can't predict.

When there is a danceoff, it's scary thinking that someone's destiny or fate is in your hands. I actually always prefer it when the public decide on something rather than four individuals. 11 million people are a lot more powerful than four judges.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.

If we don't do as well as we know how and we are prepared to do, it'll be largely because we act and make choices as though we're going to stay here, as though this life is all there is, when that is not the case.

Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

Suddenly I had a call one day saying they'd like me to come to the office to see Jean-Luc Godard. 'He is preparing a film called 'Breathless.' Jean would like to see you.' I said yes. I thought he was pretty strange, because at that time nobody was wearing those kind of glasses where you couldn't see the eyes.

The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.

Not to get too sort of mystical, but I believe in fate. I believe when roles are presented to me in my life they're for a very specific reason, something for me to learn.

Life presents us with lots of forks in the road - big choices that define what kind of a person we are and how successful we become.

I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

Ryder Cup, Presidents Cup, whatever it may be, is maybe the most fun couple weeks we have a year, but I love being able to control my own destiny. The work that I am able to put in ahead of time was either going to come out and I was going to be successful with it, or I was going to try and fail and learn how to succeed the next time.

I never feel any pressure about a film. What is meant to happen will happen. I have seen failure as well as success several times.

It's crazy all the dreams you have about what you want to do, how you want to do it, and when you're going to do it. As a child, you never know the date or that one person who's going to take you to the next person, who is going to put you in position and give you that one opportunity.

David Lynch saw my picture in a casting agent's office in Seattle. I got a call to see him, and the rest is history.