William McFee Quotes

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

Fate can be one mean god at times.

Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.

Everythin' seems ter happen ter you, doesn' it?

Good luck tended to avoid me.

I believe in karma.

Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

You know that saying, bad things don't happen to good people? That's a lie.

If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot's at the other end.

If you do right, everything will come out right.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

Anybody that has had a brush with what feels like undiluted evil often ends up asking themselves the same questions - whether it's something that was a consequence of their own actions or actions that were taken against them or actions that they were caught up in.

When karma lands, it lands hard.

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

But Anatole said suddenly, 'Don't expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go bad, you will blame yourself.' 'What are you telling me?' 'I am telling you what I'm telling you. Don't try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and everything coming out equal. When you are good, bad things can still happen. And if you are bad, you can still be lucky.

Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good.

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

Fate is gonna find you in your glass of champagne.

I have come to realize that destiny can hurt a person as much as it can bless him.

And last of all, high over thought, in the world of morals, Fate appears as vindicator, levelling the high, lifting the low, requiring justice in man, and always striking soon or late when justice is not done. What is useful will last, what is hurtful will sink.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.