Graeme Souness Quotes

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

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.

There's nothing more ironic or contradictory than life itself.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

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

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

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

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

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

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.

I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.

Some days, I'll tell you that everything in life was meant to be and that there is an order to the universe. Other days, I'm convinced it's all a combination of luck and opportunity.

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

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.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

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

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.