Predetermined Quotes
50 quotes by 48 authors
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I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research.
— Juan Cole
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Every day, in every moment, you get to exercise choices that will determine whether or not you will become a great person, living a great…
— Jeff Olson
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Just because we go through a difficult situation, it doesn’t mean that the future is predetermined. The future is very much in our hands, in…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Surrendering to change is always a leap of faith. For something new to enter your life, you have to let go of the past and…
— Richard Moss
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It is often said that everything happens for a reason, but you must embrace the perspective that it's never a reason that is predetermined or…
— Hal Elrod
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The form is mechanic when on any given material we impress a predetermined form. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate, it shapes…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest…
— Patrick Stewart
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The conflict between the principle of liberty and the fact of slavery is coming gradually to an issue. Slavery has now the power, and falls…
— John Quincy Adams
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We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.
— John O'Donohue
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The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The…
— Brennan Manning
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The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.
— Tom Stoppard
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People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be…
— Daniel Handler
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We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice…
— Milan Kundera
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Anyone can achieve their fullest potential, who we are might be predetermined, but the path we follow is always of our own choosing. We should…
— Martin Heidegger
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‎"As Oedipus learned, the more you run away from what is predetermined the more you run toward it.
— M.J. Rose
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What do you mean I have a predetermined death?†– Nick “Did I stutter?†– Death “No.†– Nick “Do I look like Webster’s?†–…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cancer is me. The tumors are…
— John Green
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A world grows up around me. Am I shaping it, or do its predetermined contours guide my hand?
— Alan Moore
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If nothing is random, and everything is predetermined, how can there be free will? The answer to that is simple. Nothing is predetermined; it is…
— Mark Helprin
Who Wrote These Predetermined Quotes
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