James Hunt Quotes

What is down will go up. At the same time, you have to be prepared for what is up to go down.

All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

Life is never all one thing. It bounces around. Certainly, my own life has.

Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.

You can be on top of everything, and the next minute, you're going to be on the bottom.

There is nothing so subject to the inconstancy of fortune as war.

Nothing has run smoothly with me throughout my life. Everything has had ups and downs and lefts and rights, and that's just the way it has panned out for me, unfortunately.

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy.

If there's one thing I'd say to anyone out there, is that if you're in this game, it's a rollercoaster. There's a lot of ups and downs.

One day you are on the top, the other day you're on the bottom. That's how it works.

One thing I have realised is that there are no certainties. Anything can happen anytime.

Sometimes there are ups and downs to deal with.

Success is unpredictable and fragile.

The highs and lows of show business is a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.

A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction.

Commerce however we may please ourselves with the contrary opinion, is one of the daughters of fortune, inconstant and deceitful as her mother. She chooses her residence where she is least expected, and shifts her abode when her continuance is, in appearance, most firmly settled.

Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, sometimes you get rained out.