William Cowper Quotes

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

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.

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

What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering.

There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

Ah Fortune, what god is more cruel to us than thou! How thou delightest ever to make sport of human life!

One shouldn't know the future.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

History is full of times when the inevitable front-runner is inevitable right up until he or she is no longer inevitable.

I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'

Shakespeare very rarely makes the least attempt to surprise by his catastrophes. They are felt to be inevitable, though the precise way in which they will be brought about is not, of course, foreseen.

On an island, anything can happen. In a crime novel, it usually does.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

The only time I've tried to make plans, the cosmic sledgehammer has intervened and something else has happened. You just have to wait and see what comes your way, so that's what I do.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

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