Iman Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

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

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

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

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

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.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Fate has many faces.

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

Nobody knows the future.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

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.

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

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.