Destined Quotes

Fate destined me to play Fagin. It was the part of a lifetime, and I was the only actor to be in the stage production and in the film.

Should I be the happy mortal destined to turn the scale of war, will you not rejoice, O my father?

I knew I was destined to do a solo album, but when I did that first album in 1978, I had no idea it was going to be that well received.

Once we are destined to live out our lives in the prison of our mind, our duty is to furnish it well.

My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands a man by his entire development, his desires, and striving can only have been destined by fate to lead our people into a brighter future.

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

I'm destined to be attracted to those I cannot defeat.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

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

Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.

It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

Usually I am on a work for a long stretch, until a moment arrives when the air of the arbitrary vanishes, and the paint falls into positions that feel destined.