Quotes About Destiny

I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.

I just happened to wind up in a metal band when I was 15.

Very happily, I am very fortunate to be able to be where the wind takes me, where the work takes me, and where I want to be.

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.

It's funny. You travel all over the world, and you wind up with a guy from your hometown.

Destiny's Child's harmonies remind me of Earth, Wind & Fire.

An Easterly wind drew me this way, and I just kind of found myself on the set of Cruella.'

You can't do everything, at the same time, always, and forever. But if you look at your life and your career as a long, winding river, you can get to your destination.

I think hard work is definitely a huge thing, but there is something, if you want to call it luck or whatever - a window of opportunity - that is totally outside of your control, and it's that thing that will sometimes separate a good career from a great career.

I went to Europe in '52 or '53, and when I came back, I stopped in New York. I remember looking out of a window on a glorious October morning and there was New York. And I thought, 'I'm coming here. This is for me.'

One ship drives east and other drives west by the same winds that blow. It's the set of the sails and not the gales that determines the way they go.

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

The wing of the Falcon brings to the king, the wing if the crow brings him to the cemetery.

Everywhere on the Continent, the tourist is looked upon as a bird to be plucked, and presently the bird himself feebly comes to regard plucking as his proper destiny and abjectly holds out his wing so long as there is a feather left on it.

To the Spains will come a very powerful king, by land and sea subjugating the South; This will cause harm, lowering again the crescent, clipping the wings of those of Friday.

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.

In this life, you have three kinds of persons the winners, the losers, and the third ones, they're the ones who don't even know why they're born. I'm a winner.

A friend bought me a plane ticket to Hawaii, which is where I got discovered and became an actor, so I guess a friend bought me a winning lottery ticket.

I never went to auditions or screen tests. I just got cast.

Many people have believed that they were Chosen, but none more baldly than the Texans.

We know that Texas is more than a state. Texas has always been a promise. The promise that where you start has nothing to do with how far you can come.

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.