Martin Goldsmith Quotes

Destiny and history are untidy.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

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

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

History is totally unpredictable.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

You can't really explain why things happen.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

Fate is by far the greatest mystery of all.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

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.

Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.

Fate keeps on happening.

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

Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

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

There is no such thing in the world as luck. There never was a man who could go out in the morning and find a purse full of gold in the street to-day, and another to-morrow, and so on, day after day: He may do so once in his life; but so far as mere luck is concerned, he is as liable to lose it as to find it.

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

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.