Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

Fate has blessed me.

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

I have so much. Why did it all happen to me? There has to be a reason.

I'd rather have luck on my side than anything else.

If you have talent and you work really hard, it increases your odds but it doesn't ensure anything. But every now and then, the universe must tilt in your direction.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

It's amazing how life conspires to set you up with what you need.

A thousand things might have stopped me from being here right now, but instead, a thousand things brought me here.

When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

It seemed like there was no control over it. I think certain things just popped. God was blessing us in telling us that certain things were going the way they were supposed to go.

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

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.

Both destiny's kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

Fortune's unjust; she ruins oft the brave, and him who should be victor, makes the slave.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.