James Russell Lowell Quotes

Fate keeps on happening.

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

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Men plan. Fate Laughs. Guis Alera, First Lord

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.

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.

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

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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

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

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

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.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

An example is often a deceptive mirror, and the order of destiny, so troubling to our thoughts, is not always found written in things past.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

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

It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.

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.

Man plans, but God decides.

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

The two grand tyrants of the Earth, Time and Chance.

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

Fate has many faces.