Sigrid Undset Quotes

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Luck's always to blame.

My whole life has been decided by fate. I've never planned anything that's happened to me.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

I didn't have any ambition to be president. It was fate. The people found me.

Things happen when they're supposed to happen.

I think half of our life is written out for us and things happen the way their supposed to happen.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

Luck cannot change birth.

I really believe you get what you're supposed to get.

Fate, I think, is a thief.

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Luck really has nothing to do with human existence, since God is not a random God.

Acting is a mix of luck and choice. I got lucky.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

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

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that fate and character are the same conception.