I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance,… — Feist Copy Share Image
A contemporary painting is worth what someone is prepared to pay for it and not a predetermined figure. — Stuart Pearson Wright Copy Share Image
It is the striving after perfection that makes one an artist. It is the sense that one is imperfect, unfulfilled, unfinished. One… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Free will allows infinite numbers of human stories to be written in which a personal you is the main character. The sciences,… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
As part of that negotiation [with China], as part of fulfilling that promise, all of these issues are on the table. But… — Reince Priebus Copy Share Image
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
In-depth reporting is expensive. It is much cheaper to have people sit around or on remotes and talk about politics like it's… — Robert Kane Pappas Copy Share Image
But you will hardly ever read about them. Why? Because once again, the media has predetermined what is not worthy of coverage,… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I don't want to make a depressing movie. I want it to allow us to ask some questions and stay asking those… — Joachim Trier Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
My writing derived from the conviction I conceived during my college years: one should lead one's life as if one were the… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
As you begin to feel this enormous shift of consciousness, called multisensory perception, emerging in your awareness, you begin to reorient yourself.… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other,… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
I don't think he (Joseph Albers, fh) ever realized that it was his discipline that I came for. Besides, my response to… — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
Whenever I enter a position, I have a predetermined stop. That is the only way I can sleep. I know where I'm… — Bruce Kovner Copy Share Image
When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but… — Vaclav Havel Copy Share Image
[The artist's aim is] not to instruct the viewer, but to give him information... . The artist would follow his predetermined premise… — Sol LeWitt Copy Share Image
In schools, including universities, most resources are spent to purchase the time and motivation of a limited number of people to take… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Contrary to what some parents might believe or hope for, children are not born a blank slate. Rather, they come into the… — Jane Brody Copy Share Image
If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person,… — Jeff Olson Copy Share Image
“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The national interest is predetermined by geopolitics or the history of a country. Important political leaders never just followed their interests -… — Joseph Nye Copy Share Image
Human beings are 'emotional amoral egoists,' driven above all by emotional self-interest. All of our thoughts, beliefs and motivations are neurochemically mediated,… — Nayef Al-Rodhan Copy Share Image
For me, the child is a veritable image of becoming, of possibility, poised to reach towards what is not yet, towards a… — Maxine Greene Copy Share Image
If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
School prepares for the alienating institutionalization of life by teaching the need to be taught. Once this lesson is learned, people lose… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
The Bible puts forth a strong case for no free will and that's a real problem you know, because the justification for… — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
It seems that film-makers are being divided between those working in digital and those who are not. I think it's not something… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
“Nothing is predetermined, it is determined, or was determined, or will be determined. No matter, it all happened at once, in less… — Mark Halperin Copy Share Image
The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data… — Nicholas Lore Copy Share Image
Also, with acting and dancing I portray a predetermined character and story for the most part, with music I have the creative… — Alyson Stoner Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a jazz player, and my music as a natural extension of the jazz tradition. What I'm doing… — Richard Grossman Copy Share Image
In the preface to his great History of Europe, H. A. L. Fisher wrote: "Men wiser than and more learned than I… — D. V. Ager Copy Share Image