Predestinated Quotes

#1. Because a laugh's the wisest, easiest answer to all that's queer; and come what will, one comfort's always left - that unfailing comfort is, it's all predestinated.

Herman Melville

#2. Gradually I slid into the persuasion that these troubles of mine touching the scrivener, had been all predestinated from eternity, and Bartleby was billeted upon me for some mysterious purpose of an all-wise Providence, which it was not for a mere mortal like me to fathom.

Herman Melville

#3. But handsome is as handsome does, as we say in the Shire; and I daresay we shall all look much the same after lying for days in hedges and ditches.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#4. You'll be reading the breakfast menu without me before you know it.
Hmm, maybe I don't want to learn French

Stephanie Perkins

#5. Craig was a nice guy, don't get me wrong, but he was so low-key that once I'd gotten to know him, I was almost completely unable to have even imaginary conversations with him while cooking his recipes. Around

Nora Ephron

#6. That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

Siri Hustvedt

#7. I could never be your god
And I don't even think I want the job anymore

Stone Sour

#8. It's wasted on dummies." (Life is). "They give it to dummies and fools.

Saul Bellow

#9. Life is filled with tragedy, with long patches of struggle and with, I think, beautiful bursts of joy and accomplishment. Blessed with those moments, you just try to relax as much as possible and focus on the little things, like the joy of changing your baby's diaper.

David Dastmalchian

#10. Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

Amy Tan

#11. You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.

Ruth Reichl

#12. Actually, I jade very quickly. Once is usually enough. Either once only, or every day. If you do something once it's exciting, and if you do it every day it's exciting. But if you do it, say, twice or just almost every day, it's not good any more.

Andy Warhol