Aparna Sen Quotes

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

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

There seems to be a law that governs all our actions so I never make plans.

There's only so much you can control in life.

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

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.

Well, there are a lot of things outside our control - outside my control. And this is true with anybody's life: You try to keep the train on a certain track, and then there are a lot of moving parts that you can't control. And that tends to make you nervous.

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.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

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.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

A merciless fate threw me into this maelstrom … the gale of the world carried me away.

Destiny and history are untidy.

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

We put fate in other people's hands there at Talladega. You have 42 other racers and sometimes it doesn't work out for you.

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.

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.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

Men may second fortune, but they cannot thwart her.

Men are able to assist fortune but not to thwart her. They can weave her designs, but they cannot destroy them.

No man alive can say, This shall not happen to me.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

Fate does not always seek our consent.

One shouldn't know the future.