Inevitable Outcomes Quotes

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

The "determinist" swears that if we knew everything we should also be able to deduce and foretell the conduct of every man in every circumstance, and that is obvious enough. But the expression "know everything" means nothing.

The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether escaped.

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Whatever has happened in your past, it's - you can never deny it. I mean, you can never wash what's happened before in your life out of you.

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Fate has to do with events in history that are the summary and unintended results of innumerable decisions of innumerable men.

Every phenomenon, however trifling it be, has a cause, and a mind infinitely powerful, and infinitely well-informed concerning the laws of nature could have foreseen it from the beginning of the ages. If a being with such a mind existed, we could play no game of chance with him; we should always lose.

The wheel weaves as the wheel wills

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

Things always work according to their nature.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

our can'ts were born to happen our mosts have died in more

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

In the long term everyone traffics in foregone conclusions, and in the short term they just get drunk. This is the way it has always been. Some half-assed ambiguity masquerading as mystery is all anybody's really looking for.

Man goes nowhere, everything comes to man like tomorrow.

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

But in the end it wasn't up to me. The bigs things never are. Birth, I mean, and death. And love. And what love bequeaths to us before we're born.

'Awkward' implies both solidarity and implication. Nobody is exempt.

The reason my games are chaotic is that the world is chaotic, not me. I don't aim for bad endings - they just naturally come out.

Accidents will happen in the best regulated families.

The wheel of the Good Law moves swiftly on. It grinds by night and day. The worthless husks it drives from out the golden grain, the refuse from the flour. The hand of fate guides the wheel; the revolutions mark the beatings of the heart of manifestation.

You can delay but you can't deny.

People don't wake up one morning and say: 'I fancy being injured today.' It is just the way it is.