Pre Ordained Quotes

#1. Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward perfection.

Greg Egan

#2. If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic things.

Gary Numan

#3. Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#4. The world is a classroom - life is the teacher and the subjects are learned everyday from the successes, failures, changes twists, turns, surprises and contradictions - some brought about through choices and others pre-ordained by destiny.

Eugenie Laverne Mitchell

#5. All my pictures are a kind of revision of my original idea. This is surely very different from the way in which Japanese or Chinese artists work: their themes are pre-ordained, whereas mine are invented at will.

Antoni Tapies

#6. I couldn't help but think of Al's pre-ordained betrothal to Billo and of how hard the match-makers had worked to find the girl beautiful enough to match this extraordinary man - this extraordinary man of mine.

Ruth Ahmed

#7. My parents were language teachers. They talked about teaching all the time and all their friends were teachers. It was considered a pre-ordained thing that I would go into teaching.

Joanne Harris

#8. The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret.
Barbara Botch

Barbara Botch

#9. Suppose someone tells you that he just flipped a coin 10 times and all 10 were heads? What is the probability that the next flip will be heads too? If you think 50%, then you are discounting the very high probability that the game is rigged. And this makes you a sucker.

Dmitry Orlov

#10. How do you know that God didn't speak to Charles Darwin?

Jack Lemmon

#11. If you are a woman and dare to look within yourself, you are a Witch. You make your own rules. You are free and beautiful. You

Margot Adler

#12. I grew up in Southern California, and I particularly did not fit in. I always felt like a fish out of water in my hometown because everyone was very happy, and I was thinking about death and anxiety, and not many other people around me seemed to be thinking about that.

Rachel Bloom

#13. Sometimes I believe that some people are better at love than others, and sometimes I believe that everyone is faking it.

Nora Ephron

#14. I like what L'Oreal stands for, which is women of worth.

Andie MacDowell

#15. I think a duet with Janet is a great idea.

Paula Abdul

#16. A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted.

Mahatma Gandhi

#17. I don't do guilt, but if I were to squint in that direction, it's probably enjoying simple computer games like Zuma. But I regard such things as part of my hand-eye coordination workout.

Jo Beverley

#18. Politics is the last resort of scoundrels.

Blase Bonpane

#19. You may not be the smartest, or the fastest, or the most talented. But you CAN work the hardest.

Kevin J. Donaldson