William McFee Quotes

People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Fate can be one mean god at times.

I believe in karma.

If you do right, everything will come out right.

Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

In the West, it was believed that attitude and ambition saved you. In Africa, we had learned that no one was immune to capricious tragedy.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

You don't get what you deserve - it would be amazing if life worked out that way.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

Fate is the friend of the good, the guide of the wise, the tyrant of the foolish, the enemy of the bad.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

You've got to bear it in mind that nobody that ever lived is specially privileged; the axe can fall at any moment, on any neck, without any warning or any regard for justice. You've got to keep your mind off pitying your own rotten luck and setting up any kind of a howl about it. You've got to remember that things as bad as this and a hell of a lot worse have happened to millions of people before and that they've come through it and that you will too.

Greater dooms win greater destinies.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

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.

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.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

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

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.