Anne Rice Quotes

Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.

You shape your own destiny.

If there is such a thing as freedom, then there is no fate.

A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul.

Man needs to choose, not just accept, his destiny.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

Look. I brought you here to give you a choice-" "You didn't bring us here," said Nick. "You're here," said Bod. "I wanted you here. I came here. You followed me. Same thing.

It is not necessary to accept the choices handed down to you by life as you know it.

The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come.

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

More than anything else, I believe it's our decisions, not the conditions of our lives that determine our destiny.

Destiny is a worrying concept. I don't want to be fated, I want to choose.

Diminish the influence of fate

You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.

It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

I'm doing it because I choose it. And if it's not working, I can make a change.

One of the greatest gifts that God has given us is free will. Even though it's free, we don't take advantage of it as much as we could when it comes to matters of the heart.

Everything is something you decide to do, and there is nothing you have to do.

I think it is important to remind people of the extent of our free will.

We have become makers of our fate when we have ceased to pose as its prophets.

Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view.

I definitely do things on my terms, it may not seem that way but I actually do.

If I ever stop acting, I'd like to be the author of that decision.

I just kind of feel like it's my choice to do what I want to do. And my agent, he's totally with it. He tells me, 'You can turn down any audition you don't want to.'

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.