Jodi Picoult Quotes

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

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

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

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

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

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

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

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

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

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

Life is a school of probability

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random. So truthfully, again, do I wish it weren't me? Absolutely. I still can't make that logistic jump to thinking there's a reason why it shouldn't be me.

If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

I also don't believe that "everything happens for a reason," which is in a similar category of world-views.