Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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.

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.

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

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

What I like about the EMAs is that you will never know what happens.

That's football. Sometimes luck swings your way and sometimes it doesn't.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

There are no logical answers in football. That's just the way it goes.

Life's a lottery, and man should make up his mind to the blanks.

The characters in my novels, from the very first one, are always on some quixotic effort of attempting to control something that is uncontrollable - some element of the world that is essentially random and out of control.

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

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

Much in our lives is chance.

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

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

Success is a matter of luck. If you want proof, ask any failure.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Fortune and humor govern the world.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.