Greta Garbo Quotes

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

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

Making plans is a game. Life chooses for you.

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.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

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

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

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

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.

Accidents rule men, not men accidents.

Destiny and history are untidy.

There is no way to order chaos. It's the fundamental theory at the beginning and end of everything; it's the ultimate law of nature. There's no way to win against unpredictability, to suit up completely against accidents.

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.

You can't really explain why things happen.

There are so many things that you have no control over: whether you play or not, whether you get traded or not, or whether you get waived or not.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Is there a design in the events of our lives? Or do things just happen, much like a junk yard falling down a staircase? If it's the latter, how do you deal with it?