Menander Quotes

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

History throws you what it throws you, and you never know what’s coming.

You can't really explain why things happen.

Fate. You could never anticipate it.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Fate keeps on happening.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

There's only so much you can control in life.

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.