Richard Nixon Quotes

We have to know that life cannot be changed by us. It will be changed. But not by us. We can only guide the things that can cause physical change.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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

You're not always able to choose.

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

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

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.

Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.

We must be proud of not being needles and threads in the hands of fate as it sews the motley cloth of history.... We know that this cloth is not sewn without us.... And that is not all. We can change the pattern of the carpet.

The march of events rules and overrules human action.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

I don't go through life thinking I'm on a conveyer belt I can't jump off, but sometimes it's helpful to think that things are out of your control.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

Destiny is an absolutely definite and inexorable ruler. Physical ability and moral determination count for nothing. It is impossible to perform the simplest act when the gods say no. I have no idea how they bring pressure to bear on such occasions; I only know that it is irresistible.

The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills, Perrin. We've become what we needed to become."- Rand Al'Thor

man cannot control the current of events. he can only float with them and steer

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.

I've always sort of believed that the future takes care of itself.

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

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.

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

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

There is no armor against fate.

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