Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

If there’s one thing that’s certain in business, it’s uncertainty.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

‚In Utero‘ was the first time I’d made an album that reached into the dark side. I remember the conflict and the uncertainty. I remember all those things when I hear ‚Pennyroyal Tea.‘

Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes.

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

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Modern science says: ‚The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future.‘ From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.

Intimates are predestined.

My kind of composing is more like the work of a gardener. The gardener takes his seeds and scatters them, knowing what he is planting but not quite what will grow where and when – and he won’t necessarily be able to reproduce it again afterwards either.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

We cannot wish for that we know not.

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

I don’t think that a leader can control, to any great extent, his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

The men who have guided the destiny of the United States have found the strength for their tasks by going to their knees. This private unity of public men and their God is an enduring source of reassurance for the people of America.

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.

I guess you could say it’s always been my destiny to be a performer.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

The die is cast.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny.

Love and doubt have never been on speaking terms.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

Not only do I not know what’s going on, I wouldn’t know what to do about it if I did.

America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Certain though I am – and ever more certain – that I must press on in life as though Christ awaited me at the term of the universe, at the same time I feel no special assurance of the existence of Christ. Believing is not seeing. As much as anyone, I imagine, I walk in the shadows of faith.

The first two games for Churchill, I was so jittery that I didn’t know what to do. I was running more but didn’t know what to do. I’ve no bones accepting the fact that I didn’t know what was happening in the game.

You never know with these things when you’re trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.

Life is anything but predictable.

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.