Quotes About Destiny

Obviously God knew I wasn't going to make it to the NBA as much as I probably believed. This was divine order.

I believe in divine order all the time.

We often say that the M&M Group's destiny is inextricably linked with India's. Both were born around the same time: India in 1947, M&M in 1945. The group has experienced the same vicissitudes that the Indian economy has.

It's our destiny to explore. It's our destiny to be a space-faring nation.

I have a sense of destiny because of my mother, who was an extraordinary person but a terrible candidate for mother. She was like the god Cronus, who gave birth to his children in the morning and then ate them at night.

The reason I've gotten so far has to do with an extraordinary talent that I had nothing to do with.

It's almost like my life is a fairytale.

You can't choose who you fall in love with, you know?

I feel like everything in my life has somehow just fallen into perfect place at the perfect time. I don't know how it happened. It's always like right at the point of my life about to fall apart, and then something amazing happens. I don't know how, but it happens.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

Singing has always been a part of my life. I started at Opryland singing, and I realized I could make a living at it. I thought it was something I would grow out of. I didn't know what I was going to do with my life. Everything's just sorta fallen into place.

I have been a little lucky to get work. I know there are people who struggle a lot to get a film; I believe a lot in destiny. Things have fallen into place for me.

I have basically fallen into everything I've ever done.

There's nothing better than discovering, to your own astonishment, what you're meant to do. It's like falling in love.

Falling in love has no convenient time, it can happen anytime and anywhere.

I feel like we can't pick who we fall in love with because if we could, we would all make better choices. Your heart just falls where it falls.

I believe everything falls into place as it's supposed to.

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

I really think you get the jobs you're supposed to get. And don't stress over the jobs that you don't. That would have saved me so many tears and so much frustration.

Automation and technology would be a great boon if it were creative, if there were more leisure, more opportunity to engage in raising a family, providing guidance to the young, all the stuff we say we need. America will work if we're all in it together. It'll work when there's a shared sense of destiny. It can be done!

We thought 'Father Ted' was destined to be obscure late-night Channel 4 fodder and then it works and you don't really know why.

I realised as a teenager that I was destined for a creative life and found that fashion design was something I enjoyed and was a potentially successful career path.

Every step on my way to becoming an artist seemed preordained. The right people were always in the right places at the right times to boost me to the next level. I was fortunate to be selected for a summer drawing class offered to teens at the Otis Art Institute of Los Angeles County.

'Everything happens for a reason' is something that we have to tell ourselves all the time, because it's good to have the idea that something good is around the corner.