Paul Greengrass

I don't want to feel what I'm creating on film has an outcome that is preordained. I don't think of the world as a place with a divinity that shapes our end. What you try to do with film is create, as far as you possibly can, an unfolding present - a theatre in which an outcome happens and is tested.

English Director

Mark McKinnon

The initial attraction of a political convention was that often the outcome was not preordained. There was at least some element of surprise. But, now it's like tuning in to a movie where you already know the plot and the ending. It's just not that interesting.

American Businessman

John Calvin

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

French Theologian

Sally Kirkland

I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

American Actress

K. D. Lang

I sort of believe that my voice was preordained; I'm a Buddhist who believes in reincarnation so I think that my voice is a few lifetimes old.

Canadian Musician

Theodor W. Adorno

The individual mirrors in his individuation the preordained social laws of exploitation, however mediated.

German Philosopher

Qandeel Baloch

I am facing threats. But I believe that death is preordained - when you are meant to die, you will die.

Pakistani Actress

Rebecca West

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Irish Author

Mel Gibson

I think everything is pretty well preordained - even your mistakes.

Actor

Yui Mizuno

Our actions are preordained by the Fox God's prophecy.

Japanese Musician

Often linked with destiny and things you cannot control.

Fate Association

Highlights that events aren't random, but have a purpose or cause.

Not Coincidental

Used for things meant to happen in the future according to a plan or design.

Planned Future

 And one of the mothers I interviewed, who had two children with multiple severe disabilities, said to me, "People always give us these little sayings like, 'God doesn't give you any more than you can handle.' But children like ours are not preordained as a gift.

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 and the value of personal experience. In the years following WWII, these ideas would converge into the school of thought most closely associated with their existentialism. Where Judeo-Christian traditions taught that humans are born with preordained purpose,

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