Phoebe Robinson Quotes

If a man really has charge of his destiny at all, he should have something to say about getting born; and I only came through by a hair's-breadth. What had I to do with this momentous first step? In the language of the lawyer, I was not even a party of the second part.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

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

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

Through pure accident of birth, I've managed to stay relatively youthful.

I think life's a bit of what you make it and a little smidgen of you being the jellyfish, and the tide's just gently helping you along.

You know, I think in some kinds of ways, we are all born into stuff that gives us no choice.

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

Of course, I have privileges that others don't. But, you don't choose where you are born. If you want to hate me for that, I am sorry.

Fate is not in man but around him

Our fate is matched by the total freedom we have to react to our fate. It is as if we were dealt a hand of card. Once we have them, we are free to play them as we choose.

In life, there is good, evil, love, and hatred. What we desire, choose, and need to pursue is in our hands.

A lot of times in life, it's personal choices that you're making, actively, and then there's a myriad of forces and circumstances that are out of our control. And without even realizing it, you're riding a wave of events that you have no control of.

Nobody chooses where they're born. And, of course, I would know.

People very often say to actors that they admire their careers, and I rather think that what's implied by that is that we have a choice in the matter. When really, most actors, me included, do whatever comes along next.

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

You don't get to choose where you were born; you only get to choose where you live.

The only thing I can control is myself. I can't control what anyone thinks about me, I can't control circumstance, I can't control the things that God controls.

I was lucky by birth.

I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.

Life is nothing but a statement of what happens to be.

Timing was everything when it came to being a woman—the moment you entered the world could seal your fate.

Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

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.