Phyllis Bottome Quotes

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

Much in our lives is chance.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

The man who said 'I'd rather be lucky than good' saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It's scary to think so much is out of one's control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net and for a split second it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck it goes forward and you win. Or maybe it doesn't and you lose.

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

Luck is the grand equalizer.

I moreover affirm that our wisdom itself, and wisest consultations, for the most part commit themselves to the conduct of chance.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

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

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

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

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

The world has always been uncertain. This is the nature of the world.

You never know what can happen in football and in life.

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

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

Play is experimenting with chance.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.