Faith Baldwin Quotes

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

You never know what's going to happen. Anything can happen there... and often does.

You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you?

Good luck, I'm beginning to discover, is just as baffling as the bad. There never seems to be a reason for it - no sense of reward or punishment. It simply is - the most incomprehensible idea of all.

Fate laughs at probabilities.

Used to think that luck wuz luck and nuthin' else but luck-- It made no diff'rence how or when or where or why it struck; But sev'ral years ago I changt my mind, an' now proclaim That luck's a kind uv science--same as any other game.

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.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

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

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

You never know what's going to happen and when it's going to happen.

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

I believe in luck. My luck's real streaky.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

Happiness is always a coincidence.

The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.