Jodi Picoult Quotes

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Luck's always to blame.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Responsibility: A detachable burden easily shifted to the shoulders of God, Fate, Fortune, Luck or one's neighbor. In the days of astrology it was customary to unload it upon a star.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Some people think there's a woman to blame, but I know - it's my own damn fault

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

A man's fate is his own temper; and according to that will be his opinion as to the particular manner in which the course of events is regulated. A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.

...there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

In my years, I have seen that people must be their own gods and make their own good fortune. The bad will come or not come anyway.

Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

Kafka had the sense of guilt. I don't think I have because I don't believe in free will. Because what I have done has been done, well, for me or through me. But I haven't done it really. But I don't believe in free will, I can't feel guilty.

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

I think we make our own luck. Our parents give us life, but what we do with that life is our own responsibility.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.

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

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

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.