Fay Weldon Quotes

Infinity converts the possible into the inevitable.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

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

Anything that can happen, will happen.

A thousand probabilities don't make one fact.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.

Nothing, like something, happens anywhere.

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

Death is inevitable, but Life - that's the tricky bit where things happen.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.