Thurgood Marshall Quotes

Nothing ever happens till it happens.

Fate will find a way.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

Fate keeps on happening.

What's meant to be will always find a way.

Fate has many faces.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

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.

There is no armor against fate.

Everything happens kind of the way it's supposed to happen, and we just watch it unfold. And you can't control it. Looking back, you can't say, 'I should've... ' You didn't, and had you, the outcome would have been different.

There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.

History is totally unpredictable.

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

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

Many events in our lives are the result of things beyond our control. While it is comforting to think, 'I'm in charge,' in truth, most changes effected by individuals are very limited in scope.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

Whatever happens, however fast it's supposed to happen, it'll happen.

I disagree with the idea that everything happens for a reason.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Sometimes, what you do you have no control over because it's predestined. It's gonna happen in spite of you. There's nothing you can do about it.

I don't think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.