They are less likely to blame fate than in the past, his research shows.

Cone tries to analyze his starts as objectively as possible and can be brutally honest with himself, to the point where it probably hurts him; Cone is not superstitious, does not blame fate.

Whenever we blame luck, fate, circumstances, heredity, our childhood, society, the government, other people or God - for anything that happens in our lives - we are stuck in 'victim mentality', and so disempowering ourselves.

It's comforting to blame fate and injustice for the relative obscurity of "Rusalka."

He could blame fate, which has never treated him too well.

An irreligious man who harbors a perverse streak of spirituality, Rebus blames blind fate (or an uncaring God) for conjoining these seemingly random circumstances into a force field of evil so strong that it sweeps aside his sense of decency and pulls him in.

To this day, Nicklaus blames himself, not fate or Trevino's chip-in.

One might as well blame chance or fate, she told herself as Sullivan continued.

Some here blame fate for the tsunami, others blame geology.

"Foolish is the person who misses his chance and blames fate", declared the Arab calligraphy.