Philosophy & Thought: Free Will & Fate Quotes

"I feel like I'm worried about my later years in life because I feel like I'm using up so much good karma right now. There's going to be some sort of karmic backlash somewhere down the road"

Ed Helms, Comedian

"I don't really try to predict what can and will happen with things. Sometimes you think something's gonna be a huge success, and it isn't. And sometimes you pay no attention to something whatsoever, and God just makes it into everything"

Donna Summer, Musician

"I'm not a religious person, so I'm not a hardcore fate fan, but I guess it's got me thinking about that. I was very careful, though, not to link Jaye's stories always to that"

Caroline Dhavernas, Actress

"You know, when you've established a certain thing, what can you do? You're stuck with it"

George Shearing, Musician

"I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen"

Audrey Tautou, Actress

"I don't know what my future is"

Barry Bonds, Athlete

"What a man has made himself he will be; his state is the result of his past life, and his heaven or hell is in himself"

Catherine Crowe, Writer

"Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them"

Julien Green, Novelist

"Activities that seem to represent choices are often inert reproductions of accepted practice"

Shoshana Zuboff, Educator

"As long as karma exists, the world changes. There will always be karma to be taken care of"

Nina Hagen, Musician

"I do come shackled with whatever people think I am"

Kelly Lynch, Actress

"I've learned one thing about life. We're a good deal like that ball, dancing on the fountain. We know as little about the forces that move us, and move the world around us, as that empty ball does"

Ardel Wray

"We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan? Does somebody really know what's happening? Is it all planned out? Because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me"

Andie MacDowell, Actress

"The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine"

Heinz R. Pagels, Physicist

"But Nature cast me for the part she found me best fitted for, and I have had to play it, and must play it till the curtain falls"

Edwin Booth, Actor

"If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so"

Richard Rosen, Writer

"Fate determines many things, no matter how we struggle"

Otto Weininger, Philosopher

"No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently"

Agnes de Mille, Dancer

"What's meant to be will always find a way"

Trisha Yearwood, Musician

"I had a calling to become what I became - I was created to do this"

La Monte Young, Composer

"You know I feel very fortunate that my life has turned out the way that it has - whatever that means - I mean... you know, to say that I would be glad would mean that I planned it"

Oliver Platt, Actor

"Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine"

Germanicus, Soldier

"Fortune is either with you or it's not"

Tom Araya, Musician

"Sometimes it's controversy, but we all have our choices that we make"

Solomon Burke, Musician

"Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced"

Bob Black, Activist

"Go with your fate, but not beyond. Beyond leads to dark places"

Mary Renault, Novelist

"It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things"

John C. Ransom, Writer

"Time really has gone by fast. I don't know if your path is pre-written or what, but it's crazy how one thing just leads to another"

Torrie Wilson, Celebrity

"I'm not psychic myself"

Dionne Warwick, Musician

"It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves"

Giambattista Vico, Philosopher

"I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over"

John Walker Lindh, Criminal

"What can and doesn't have to be always, at the end, surrenders to something that has to be"

Ivo Andric, Writer

"This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it"

Ugo Betti, Playwright

"Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design"

Adam Ferguson, Philosopher

"I think there's great potential for autonomy, but we have to remember that we live in a world where people may have free will but have not invented their circumstances"

Thomas Frank, Author

"That's life. Whichever way you turn, fate sticks out a foot to trip you"

Martin Goldsmith, Writer

"The world is as it should be"

Omar Epps, Actor

"Think of the wonderful circles in which our whole being moves and from which we cannot escape no matter how we try. The circler circles in these circles"

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Critic

"It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass"

E. T. A. Hoffmann, Critic

"My whole life has been decided by fate"

Sharon Tate, Actress

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