Parker Conrad Quotes

You can't plan anything, right? You can try.

Some days you're the kid with the stick, some days you're the pinata.

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

The man upstairs is pushing the buttons, and if your name happens to be on that button, well, thank you.

We're not handed situations based on our established likes and dislikes; we get what's available.

Prize lists are out, and you're not on them? Nature of the world - means nothing. Prizes are a lottery.

Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

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

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

Events are always in the saddle.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

Some people plan their life out, and it occurs. Others have things they're thinking about, and things don't go that way.

You can't control everything.

You can't pick and choose who's going to win or who's gonna mess up.

I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others; made especially savage for children because they may not be allowed the good fortune of a lifetime to correct it.

All I can do is play the game the way the cards fall.

I realized that there are no certainties in life. You can't manipulate fate.

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is.