Pete Holmes Quotes

Man blindly works the will of fate.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

Fate keeps on happening.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

I have always believed that all things depended upon Fortune, and nothing upon ourselves.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

I believe in fate.

If everything happens for a reason, what's the reason?

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.

Everything happens through immutable laws, ...everything is necessary... There are, some persons say, some events which are necessary and others which are not. It would be very comic that one part of the world was arranged, and the other were not; that one part of what happens had to happen and that another part of what happens did not have to happen. If one looks closely at it, one sees that the doctrine contrary to that of destiny is absurd; but there are many people destined to reason badly; others not to reason at all others to persecute those who reason.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

Direct interference in a person's life does not enter our scope of activity, nor, on the other, tralatitiously speaking, hand, is his destiny a chain of predeterminate links: some 'future' events may be linked to others, O.K., but all are chimeric, and every cause-and-effect sequence is always a hit-and-miss affair, even if the lunette has actually closed around your neck, and the cretinous crowd holds its breath.

Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today

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

I'm a very big believer in fate.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

My whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me.