Anya Seton Quotes

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

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.

At a moment that comes rarely in the life of a country. It is a time when destiny is ours to hold.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

It would not be better if things happened to men just as they wish.

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

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

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

I think the future takes care of itself.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Sometimes I write stuff that strangely predicts what's going to happen in my life.

The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

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

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

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

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.

2011 is one of those years that historians are likely to look back on as a 'hinge.' And the truth, at once frightening and exhilarating, is that we don't know yet which way the door will swing.

Fate has many faces.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

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