Wilford Brimley Quotes

A person can't help their birth.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

You were born as the one you are.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

You can't escape from what you are.

Fortuitous circumstances constitute the moulds that shape the majority of human lives, and the hasty impress of an accident is too often regarded as the relentless decree of all ordaining fate.

My whole life has been decided by fate.

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

Every night and every morn Some to misery are born; Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

When I curse Fate, it's not me, but the earth in me.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

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.

We have to live with our loneliness and the destiny that drives each person to the order of things.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

Man is the creature of circumstances.

You're not always able to choose.

I was thinking about how fleeting and precious life is. Life is also arbitrary. For example, the choices that you make, the luck of being born into the right bed, to parents who support and help you and who love you. That doesn't always happen - and then, what happens when it doesn't?

In other words, the man who is born into existence deals first with language; this is a given. He is even caught in it before his birth.

Fate keeps on happening.

I think that people who live in cultures without quite so much privilege, opportunity or grandiosity have a little bit more respect for the workings of destiny, and the limitations that people can find themselves in through no fault of their own.

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

It is we that are blind, not fortune.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.