Rick Yancey Quotes

Time and chance reveal all secrets.

There's a lot of things in life that we don't know why they're coming exactly at this moment.

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

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.

I believe that life is chaotic, a jumble of accidents, ambitions, misconceptions, bold intentions, lazy happenstances, and unintended consequences, yet I also believe that there are connections that illuminate our world, revealing its endless mystery and wonder.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

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.

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

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

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

One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.

What happens tomorrow is going to happen tomorrow.

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.

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Doing what's right is no guarantee against misfortune.

It is seldom in life that one knows that a coming event is to be of crucial importance.

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.

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