Nora Roberts 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.

A thing hard to track is Fortune.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

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.

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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 is totally unpredictable.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Destiny and history are untidy.

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

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

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

You can't really explain why things happen.

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

Destiny is always dark.

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.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

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