Ellie Goulding

As a kid I'd lie awake at night and convince myself that a meteor was about to hit the Earth. It's my fatalistic streak, which I've inherited from my mum. I firmly believe something cataclysmic is going to happen in my lifetime and I have to be prepared to run for my life when the time comes.

English Musician

David Limbaugh

It isn't just that Obama's policies have failed; it's that he has essentially given up and is asking us to accept a lesser America going forward, as if resigned to the fatalistic belief that America has begun an inevitable and unavoidable decline.

American Author

Charlotte Rampling

I was incredibly fatalistic. I just thought, 'If it works, it works.' But I've always been like that. I've never been easily impressed, and I've never thought I didn't deserve something. If I got it, then I deserved it.

French Actress

Steven Pinker

There's a common criticism of evolutionary psychology that it's fatalistic and it dooms us to eternal strife, 'Why even try to work toward peace if we're just bloody killer apes and violence is in our genes?

Canadian Scientist

Martin Landau

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

American Actor

Laura Esquivel

Destiny has always been something that interested me as a subject, but not in a fatalistic way because I believe that one can transform destiny through self-knowledge.

Mexican Author

Brian Gleeson

I'm sure there's some sort of cynicism or fatalism in Ireland and England. We are fatalistic here, and sometimes we need to be shaken out of that.

Irish Actor

Chris Hemsworth

I love that Viking era, but also they're a fatalistic people and that dictated their fearlessness in battle and approach to life.

Australian Actor

Lorna Luft

Instead of joyfully looking forward to my birth, my mother began systematically preparing for her own death. She was fatalistic.

American Actress

Prince

I learned from Jehovah's Witnesses that a fatalistic view is counterproductive.

American Singer

Stresses that outcomes cannot be changed, suggesting acceptance rather than active resistance.

Inevitability Focus

Means not being shocked by events, since they think everything is predestined.

No Surprise

Highlights an individual's lack of control over situations and life's events.

Beyond Control Emphasis

Suggests belief in an external force, destiny, or fate governing life's events.

External Power

Conveys a feeling of helplessness due to bigger, uncontrollable powers at play.

Powerlessness Sentiment

Fatalism can be more common in certain cultures or philosophies that value destiny.

Cultural Perspective

Ensure it's not confused with being negative; it’s about belief in inevitability rather than negativity.

Misinterpretation Avoidance

 It's such a fatalistic adage. It tells us that landlocked countries are condemned to be poor, that small countries cannot escape their larger neighbors, that vast distances are insurmountable. But every journey I take around the world,

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 do you have the guts to evolve now let's do that fourth quality luck most of us think of luck as something that's fatalistic a byproduct of chance heads

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