Unavoidable Circumstances Quotes

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; But when the truth entails tremendous ruin, To speak dishonorably is pardonable.

Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it.

War is never a choice between a good choice and a bad choice. It is a choice between a bad choice and a worse choice.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

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.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

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

There are certain things in politics you cannot stop. You just can’t stop. You just have to grin and bear it.

How shall a man escape from that which is written; How shall he flee from his destiny?

One of the things that I somewhat realized, especially right after I was convicted, was that sometimes really, really horrible things happen for no reason.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it.

I can't rewrite history.

You want to do it on your own terms - not to be forced out because your body breaks down. I had to quit because of injury and I was crying for weeks. I used to wake up in the morning and think 'what am I getting up for now?'

Even the gods cannot strive against necessity.

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

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.

Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up.

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.

The events which can not be prevented, must be directed.

Life doesn't run away from nobody. Life runs at people.