Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

And that’s the way it is

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

I stood there and stared, into the sky and at the city around me. I stood, hands at my side, and I saw what had happened to me and who I was and the way things would always be for me. Truth. There was no more wishing, or wondering. I knew who I was, and what I would always do. I believed it, as my teeth touched and my eyes were overrun.

There are some things in the world we can't change.

Fight if you wish. Deny what is before you if it comforts you. But nothing you do can change your fate.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

Some things you can't control.

You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.

What must be shall be.

That what will come, and must come, shall come well.

He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring because yesterday has brought it.

But it was equally clear to her that this was her fate, that she had called its name and it had come to her, and she could do nothing now but own it.

Anything that happens, happens.

Because this is the way things are meant to be.(Press Tilton)

The way I see it," she continued, "is that some things are just meant to be the way they are.

How do I know it was meant to happen this way? Because it did.

I believe in taking what happens as inevitable.

Nothing can save something that is not meant to be, no matter how hard you try.

It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delivered.

When it's your time, it is your time.

People take reality for granted.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.