Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes

A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

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.

Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

I find that my entire life has come to me, and things happened without me planning them. You know, I never asked to photograph Princess Diana, and that made me more famous than I wanted. I never asked to photograph Madonna, and that pushed me to another level. There are things that just take you into the limelight.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

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

I never predict anything, and I never will.

Luck has had a great deal to do with my career.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

If people have to tell you how successful they are, they really aren't that successful.

I am a great believer in luck.

Stars arrive on their own timetable.

History is totally unpredictable.

In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won’t find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.

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

There are time when, in effect, you can do no wrong, and there are other periods of time when you can do no right, no matter what you do.

Events can neither be regarded as a series of adventures nor strung on the thread of a preconceived moral. They must obey their own laws.

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.