Frank Herbert Quotes

Life is so unpredictable.

The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

Every time I make a plan, God laughs at me.

Fate, or some mysterious force, can put the finger on you or me, for no good reason at all.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

History is totally unpredictable.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

I don't like to make predictions, because my life's been pretty unpredictable so far.

What's crazy about my life is that the biggest things that have happened just happen.

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.

Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.

The life we all live is amateurish and accidental; it begins in accident and proceeds by trial and error toward dubious ends.

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

Fate likes to tease paranoids.'

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord