Herodotus Quotes

Man is the creature of circumstances.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

The march of events rules and overrules human action.

We are not the masters of our own destiny as far as our case load is concerned.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

I am the very slave of circumstance

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

Fate is a sempiternal and unchangeable series and chain of things, rolling and unraveling itself through eternal sequences of cause and effect, of which it is composed and compounded.

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

Love cannot save you from your own fate.

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.

I think some things are just meant to happen; you can't change your fate. Maybe we have a small amount of control.

So many things happen for every event, and if you try to manipulate it, it means you are struggling against the whole universe, and that's just silly.

I think 'destiny' is just a fancy word for a psychological pattern.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.