Raj Thackeray Quotes

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.

Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act.

We don't always choose moments. You know, sometimes they choose us.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

History throws you what it throws you, and you never know what’s coming.

Even the Gods Can't Change History

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

You can't really explain why things happen.

Some things you can't control.

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.