Predetermined Destiny Quotes

God made you and me, in certain respects, quite unequal, and it would be futile to try any interference with His arrangements.

All is foreseen, but freedom of choice is given.

Accidents, try to change them - it's impossible. The accidental reveals man.

In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

If our minds were originally formed by nature in a sound and useful manner, then they pass on all the forces of fate, which imposes on us from outside in a relatively unobjectionable and more acceptable way.

You can't come into this world without becoming its victim.

So, after all, we are but puppets, creatures of our fate, not commanding it but being molded by it.

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

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure.

Our lives are programmed at conception and are endowed with purpose and meaning.

If you have an architecture of control, let's say, where you select in advance everything that's going to affect your life, then you're going to live in a very small world that will have an echo chamber feature... Pandora, which I love, actually feeds into that.

Nobody chooses where they're born. And, of course, I would know.

The compulsion of fate is bitter.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

What interests me is the surprising enormous extent to which most people accept the fate that's been given to them, and find some dignity.

I am the very slave of circumstance

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

The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him a ride.

The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.

Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house, and He had me all sketched out down to what size my feet would be (big), which bike I would ride (Schwinn), and the five ears of corn I'd eat for supper that night.

Fate keeps on happening.

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

I think one of the hardest things about 'Final Destination 2' is that nothing's immediate about it.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.