John Jakes Quotes

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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.

I am a great believer in luck.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

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.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.

You have to realize that a lot of life is just fortune and the ebbs of flows of what goes on.

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.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Fortune is either with you or it's not.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

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

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.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

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

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

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

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.