Quotes About Circumstance

In the end, you can slap a pretty label on it—like serendipity or fate. Or you can believe that it's just the random way life unfolds.

The adult world moved around us the way fetid water in a fish tank surrounds the little fish within.

we die, just as we were born, at the edge of a road not of our choosing.

There's no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity.

Of course, some captains are more adept at doing so than others. A successful president correctly discerns what existing conditions require and creates the impression that he is the master of circumstance rather than its servant. James Polk, Abraham Lincoln, and William McKinley offer illustrative examples.

After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.

With any actor, if you know your character well enough, you'll know pretty much what he would say under any circumstance, or whatever situation might rear its head.

My folks were very practical. They were also kind of able to think outside of the box. They were not going to let circumstance paralyze them. They knew sometimes you just had to take some new initiative. I think they passed that on to all of us... If you don't find a way, you make one.

I know my daughter was dealt a very, very good birth card, but sometimes I feel like I want to honor the fact that she also drew a lottery that she didn't get to choose, which is that there is this thing called Eventbrite in our lives, and it sometimes takes precedence.

At one point in my life, I wanted to do a master's degree in Irish literature, but I ended up getting pregnant instead.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

When you are in a situation or a crisis, you need to define, what is the unique role that I can play?

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'

I think wickets just depend on how lucky you are at the time.

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

For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

One of the depressing things one realizes as one gets older is how much of one's tastes and attitudes are simply products of economic circumstance at the time.

Smote.' I haven't gotten to use that word since my days upstairs. I kind of miss it. Lots of pomp and circumstance in a word like that." He tapped his chin as the smile became sly. "Downstairs we just say slaughter or massacre or team-building exercise.

People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares.

This circumstance may seem an insignificant trifle. But I think that from the point of view of preventing a split, and from the point of view of what I have written above about the relation between Stalin and Trotsky, this is no trifle, or it is a trifle that may take on decisive significance.

Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.

Not all options will be good ones. Sometimes you have to make the best of a bad lot and ride the storm.

Coincidence is how being ta'veren works," Verin said. "You find a discarded object that is of great use to you, or happen to meet an individual at just the right time. Random chance randomly works in your favor. Or haven't you noticed?" She smiled. "Care to throw some dice on it?

The Wheel of Time and the wheel of a man's life turn alike without pity or mercy