Ian Fleming Quotes

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

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

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.

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

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.

I've always had a love of cards, ever since I was a little kid. I think poker, as a system, describes the chaos of the world. Our sudden reversals, our freak streaks of fortune. The belief that the next hand can save you, and the inevitable failure of the next hand to save you. I think that describes my world view pretty well.

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

You never know when the love of your life might just walk in.

I don't plan life. Love, marriage, or relationships can't be pre-planned. Whenever it has to happen, it will happen.

An actor can never plan. You never know what can work in your favor or not and then, may be the whole dynamics can change.

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

Much in our lives is chance.

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

True love comes when it will, not when it's called.

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.

If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.If you say "No! I don't want it right now," that's when you'll get it for sure. Love will make a way out of no way. Love is an exploding cigar which we willingly smoke.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties

Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.

Love, like destiny, loves surprises.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

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

I never try to look for love but sometimes it finds me.