Gary Gygax Quotes

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

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

Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

I respond very easily to outside events. One's life is a matter of chance. Nothing that you've arranged for yourself works out.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

It is really strange how life works, isn't it?

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

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.

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.

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

Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

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

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

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

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

I say the one thing about luck is you can't really count on it.

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

Don't be surprised at Fortune's turns and twists: That wheel has spun a thousand yarns before.

So much of life is not about whether you're good or bad, or right or wrong, or can afford or not afford - it's just about timing.

We don't always choose moments. You know, sometimes they choose us.