Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

Fate does not always seek our consent.

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.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

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

We are the playthings of the gods.

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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

There is no armor against fate.

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

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.