James Russell Lowell Quotes

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

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

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

Fate pulls you in different directions.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

No man can tell what the future may bring forth

You really never know what the next day brings you.

You never know what's going to happen in the future.

You never know what will happen tomorrow.

You never know what next week brings.

For fate may hang on any moment and at any moment be changed.

Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

I've never guided my life. I've just been whipped along by the waves I'm sitting in. I don't make plans at all. Plans are what make God laugh. You can make plans, you can make so many plans, but they never go right, do they?

Life is a little like a message in a bottle, to be carried by the winds and the tides.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

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

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

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

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.