Fred Thompson Quotes

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

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.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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

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.

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

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

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

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

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

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

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.