Salman Rushdie Quotes

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Nothing is inevitable with relationships.

I think people have all faced decisions at times where you never know.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Success and failure are equally surprising.

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

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

Justice and fairness and history are not necessarily decisive in what happens.

Destiny and history are untidy.

Nothing is inevitable in history.

Fate has many faces.

Well, there are a lot of things outside our control - outside my control. And this is true with anybody's life: You try to keep the train on a certain track, and then there are a lot of moving parts that you can't control. And that tends to make you nervous.

There are no logical answers in football. That's just the way it goes.

But between the plan and the operation, there is always an unknown. That unknown spells victory or defeat. ... Some people call it getting the breaks. I call it God. God has His part in everything. That's where prayer comes in.

Everything comes to nothing in the end, I suppose. Or at least, nothing happens exactly the way we imagine it.

A sailor may choose the wind to ride out of seaport, but the wind has a mind of it's own.

You never know how things are going to turn out, however much you plan. But you already know that.

The bad news is we don't have any control. The good news is we can't make any mistakes.

Before you leave, the fortune teller reminds you that the future is never set in stone.

We have learned that history is something that takes no notice whatever of our expectations.

I hate the word "inevitable" because I feel like things don't have to be the way they are.

Most things may never happen: this one will.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected.