Rick Perry Quotes

An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.

Fate occasionally touches us all in ways we don't always understand.

If the course of human affairs be considered, it will be seen that many things arise against which heaven does not allow us to guard.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

Madness and greatness are two sides of the same coin. Every time a new Targaryen is born, the gods toss the coin in the air and the world holds its breath to see how it will land.

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed shoulders, and the beams of good fortune glow perpetually upon the blessed. Fairy tales, as I said, are lived out daily. There is far more going on in the world than we ever imagine.

What advice I would give to anybody about anything. Life is a slow-motion avalanche, and none of us are steering." (When asked in an interview about what question he's tired of being asked.)

Man wonders but God decides When to kill the Prince of Tides.

You want calamities? What about the Ice Age? God made this world, but didn't complete it.

Owen Meany believed that “coincidence” was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

Stupid to speak of blame when the wills of the immortals are involved.

There was no way to know that certainty would one day become a luxury, too.

Luck has nothing to do with it.

But believe me, just because the human mind can't imagine something happening...doesn't mean it won't.

But Fortune, who never forgets her duty, turns her wheel suddenly.

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

Things never happen exactly how you think they will.

The future is inevitable and precise, but it may not occur. God lurks in the gaps.

Certainly. My whole life has been decided by fate. I think something more powerful than we are decides our fates for us. I know one thing – I've never planned anything that ever happened to me.