Andrew Buchan Quotes

I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.

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

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

In my life, things have happened to me. I've never felt I was controlling anything.

In the world we have entered there will be many things that we can do nothing about. We should accept this state of affairs and incidentally, be grateful for it.

I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse -- borne away with every breath!

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.

You're not always able to choose.

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

Fate keeps on happening.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

In my life, I am often reminded that there is a destiny that rules over us, because no one whom I know about or whom I read about seems to be completely happy during a long time.

No man can be stronger than his destiny.

I am the very slave of circumstance

Destiny and history are untidy.

The fates will lead you to the future or drag you there.

We like to believe we are in control of our destinies, even though we never are and we never have been.

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

I don't go through life thinking I'm on a conveyer belt I can't jump off, but sometimes it's helpful to think that things are out of your control.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.

Circumstances beyond my individual control.