Thomas Sowell Quotes

There's only so much you can control in life.

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be.

The life we receive is not always what we choose.

One shouldn't know the future.

I believe that you are only in control of so much. So whatever you are not in control of you can't worry about.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

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.

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

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it--anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.

Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

I'm a victim of maybe circumstances, but look at how it worked out.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

You're not always able to choose.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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.