Walter Lippmann Quotes

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

Life is anything but predictable.

Life is so unpredictable.

I had been thinking about how greatness always has a hand from luck or fate. That no one ever achieves anything with their will alone. The luck or fate that helped us, amongst many others, was that my sister happened to know these two heavy metal kids David Navarro and Stephen Perkins.

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.

You can work hard, do everything that you think is right, but one thing you'll never overcome in life is fate. You can't control fate.

Life consists of a long chain of coincidences.

Fate is like a strange, unpopular restaurant filled with odd little waiters who bring you things you never asked for and don't always like.

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

I think that everyone's life is controlled by a series of events. They choose what they want and if it is in their control they can reach it. Sometimes luck shines on them and sometimes it doesn't. I also think accidents happen and we are placed in situations where we have to do things for those we love that we don't want to do.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end.

We never choose anything at all. Things happen. Or not.

How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!

Fortune, not wisdom, rules lives.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

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

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

Many a man is given what is intended for another, but no man is given another's fate.