Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?
Washing dishes gave me the sense of empowerment and feeling that I control my destiny.
Working harder is not a sustainable solution and it’s not how people meet their destiny. It’s time to get more creative. Instead of choosing one thing we love over something else we love, we must ask, ‘how can I do both?’ And, then, we can find solutions.
Ultimately, all human beings fulfill their patterns. We’re set in a certain archetype, and we fulfill that destiny.
‘Fill Me In’ went to number one at the same time Destiny’s Child released ‘Say My Name.’ Having a number one over Destiny’s Child at their peak was just madness to me.
I never thought I would debut in a Telugu film; it was my destiny to take up a film that, incidentally, was about destiny.
God like Us suffers the ambition to make a destiny more extraordinary than was conceived for Him, yes God is like Me, only more so.
Once, Pee-wee Herman tweeted a photo of this guitar I made that’s shaped like a slice of pizza, and it meant a lot to me. People downplay it, but there’s power there, people reaching toward each other and toward truth. Any mechanism, any resource that we can use to further that reach, is part of the human destiny.
We would consider it our moral duty to lend all support to the ending of colonialism and imperialism so that people everywhere are free to mould their own destiny.
I’m a strong believer in destiny. I believe you are born to do certain things.
The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.
I prefer not to return to the Camp Nou wearing another shirt. It would be strange. But if that’s what destiny holds.
I don’t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn’t matter – it’s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.
Swearing’s my release. It’s the one weapon I have to defend myself against destiny when it elects to strike without pity.
So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn’t feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.
We can believe we are being self-reliant and independent, and yet there is still clearly an overarching destiny, a Great Maker. So when we say we have faith in ourselves, we cannot really separate the small self from the large self.
When a film is made, its release is decided by its destiny. Nothing is bigger than that, not even me.
If you allowed PayPal to pursue its destiny, there are moves it could make to become the largest financial company in the world.
I make my own schedule, I control my destiny, I get what I work for, and the money is great.
You make your own destiny.
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.
My sister and I were not allowed expensive clothes. We so badly wanted these Fila sneakers as kids, but my mother took us down to the flea market and got imitation ones. Look at the early Destiny’s Child videos. You’ll see.
As a German citizen, as a German professor, and as a political person, I hold it to be not only my right but also my moral duty to take part in the shaping of our German destiny, to expose and oppose obvious wrongs.
Alcohol doesn’t console, it doesn’t fill up anyone’s psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn’t comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.
Man is supposed to be the maker of his destiny. It is only partly true. He can make his destiny, only in so far as he is allowed by the Great Power.
I think I didn’t know whether I wanted to keep acting deep into my career. I kept trying to see if I would be able to do it well enough to make that part of my destiny or part of what I was supposed to do.
When I first saw Destiny’s Child, I was in the fifth grade, and it made me want to sing and make music, and there would be these freestyles on the radio for what seemed like hours; it was just so cool to me.
For the oppressed peoples and classes, for the peoples and workers who have taken control of their destiny, Marxism is a shining path, a sun of hope and certainty that never sets, a sun that is always at its zenith.
You can be great only if it is your destiny.
Whatever happens, happens for the better. I was meant to do ‘Raabta.’ Every film has its destiny, and it’s the film that chooses you.
Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director’s point of view.
All men equal in rights and duties, all men equally responsible for the destiny of mankind – what a dream!
So many people don’t have control over their destiny in a way that I do, don’t own their own businesses, don’t have their own clients. I owe it to them to speak freely.
The bottom line is to be in control of your own destiny.
As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
There is a destiny that shapes our ends rough, hew them as we will.
My surname certainly suggests a man whose destiny has always been injury.
Through the outreach that I have done, through platforms, I hope to unify Singaporeans because at the end of the day, Singapore is our home. We share a common destiny, and I think all of us work together for the benefit of our country.
You have to make your own destiny.
I don’t believe in luck. I don’t believe in destiny. Instead, I believe that our lives are powered by countless microdecisions.
For us, driving is not what we are looking for, but being in the driver’s seat of our only destiny. That means ending guardianship in Saudi Arabia, which means recognizing women as full citizens.
Jesus may have had an immense sense of importance or destiny, but he never claimed to be the Son of God.
Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman’s destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.
It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life’s parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.
Know that as a Christian, your destiny is to be Christlike in all of your ways.
It’s not nice to be called a nutter, because it dismisses the input I’ve had into my own destiny over the years.
I took the name Green Destiny from – well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it’s an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.
Returning to ‘SportsNation’ is my destiny.
We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.
When I was younger, I would listen to Lauryn Hill, Destiny’s Child, Justin Timberlake, Aaliyah: lots of ’90s R&B.
And when man faces destiny, destiny ends and man comes into his own.
It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.
When you become an instrument in God’s hands as He transfers someone from the realm of darkness into the kingdom of His Son, you make a difference in the person’s eternal destiny. Not only that, but Satan also receives a devastating blow.
The ‘Broken Destiny’ series will be a trilogy, with each book releasing about a year apart.
I’ve always been a guy that liked to stay in control of my own destiny.
I always believe that it is destiny and divine intervention that are with me.
I believe in destiny, God’s hand and hard work.
Our history is not our destiny.
The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
Most modern science fiction went to school on ‘Dune.’ Even ‘Harry Potter’ with its ‘boy protagonist who has not yet grown into his destiny’ shares a common theme. When I read it for the first time, I felt like I had learned another language, mastered a new culture, adopted a new religion.
I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.
I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don’t think there’s anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.
In my generation, history was taught in terms of grand figures, men on whom the destiny of the nation hinged, quintessential heroes.
Now is the moment when we can stand up and say, ‘I’m an American. I make my destiny. And we deserve better! My children deserve better! My family deserves better. My country deserves better!’ So here we stand. Americans have a choice.
I think the success that I have is due to hard work and destiny. It is important to stay grounded and not take things for granted.
