Samuel Johnston Quotes

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

Life is a school of probability

There is always something to upset the most careful of human calculations.

The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.

You can't predict things in football because anything can happen.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

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

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

Nowhere are our calculations more frequently upset than in war.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

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

Luck is not scalable. Luck is not a national strategy.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

We don't appreciate luck in life when things are going well. No matter how smart I am and how I prepare, there are things that catch you off guard.

I have been around this long enough to know that there are no givens in this particular sport. There are too many things that can go wrong. There are too many things that can change.

You can never control injuries. Accidents happen; that's just how things go.

Sometimes, things don't go your way. Sometimes, they do.

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

I think expectations are sometimes dangerous things. I think the only thing you can be sure of is that it won't go to plan. I think that's the only thing that's definite.

With football, you can never predict what's going to happen.

How can you think about the world without factoring in the unforseen, the fluke event?

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.