Douglas William Jerrold Quotes

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

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

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.

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.

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

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

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.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

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.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

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

Happiness is always a coincidence.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

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.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

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.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.