Mark Knopfler Quotes

Life is a school of probability

Sometimes, things don't go your way. Sometimes, they do.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

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

Sometimes you lose, sometimes you win, sometimes you are unlucky, but that's life.

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

You can't win all the contests and then lose at one contest and say, 'Why am I not winning this contest as well?' It's random. So truthfully, again, do I wish it weren't me? Absolutely. I still can't make that logistic jump to thinking there's a reason why it shouldn't be me.

I didn't know what to expect coming into this year. There were a lot of question marks, and I think that's obvious now. Can we overcome it? Time will tell.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Fortune's wheel takes you very high and then throws you very low, and there is nothing you can do but face the turn of it with courage.

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

though fortune's wheel is generally on the turn, sometimes when it gets into the mud, it sticks there.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'

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

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

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.

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.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.