Andy Van Slyke 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.

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

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

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

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

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.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Marriage happens; it can't be planned. When it has to happen, it will happen. Normally, what we always believe is that however prepared you are, if it's not meant to happen, it won't. And however much we have not planned, it will still happen if it's destined.

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.

Fate has many faces.

A thing hard to track is Fortune.

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.

You can't really explain why things happen.

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

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

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

Take it from me, Fate doesn't care most of the time.

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.

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.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.