Character Quote by William James

We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, never to be undone.

— William James

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues.…

— Edward Dahlberg

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

— Joy Williams

There are monstrous changes taking place in the world, forces shaping a future whose face we do not know. Some of these forces seem…

— John Steinbeck

In the world we live in everything militates in favor of things that have not yet happened, of things that will never happen again.

— Andre Breton

The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the…

— Thomas Nagel

Unfortunately, I have realized that we cannot completely erase all the evil from the world, but we can change the way we deal with…

— Zlata Filipović

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be…

— Jakob Bohme

All of our actions have in their doing the seed of their undoing.

— Louise Erdrich

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?…

— Anonymous

We are all doomed,aren't we?

— Jasmine Laura

“[The Universe] does not care, and even with all our science there are some disasters that we can not avert. All evil and good…

— Vernor Vinge