Pierre Nanterme Quotes

Life is a school of probability

How fragile and unpredictable the course of history is.

Human affairs are governed by such a variety of whimsical circumstances, that we should always be prepared to stand the shock of that disappointment which the best concerted measures are constantly subject to.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

It's difficult because nothing's preordained by plan and you can't control it. That's one of those joys and thrills and nerve-racking realities of being an actor. A lot has to do with luck, no matter what your talent or contribution can be.

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

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

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

The reality is that luck does play a part of it. It does. Ultimately it's a make or miss league.

God throws dice, what can I say?

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

There are no guarantees in life. The simple twists of fate and the breaks of the game are the two maxims that define so much of the success and failure in life.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back.

Probability is the guide of life, and of death, too.

Luck enters into every contingency. You are a fool if you forget it -- and a greater fool if you count upon it.

No man can ever be secure until he has been forsaken by Fortune.

Life does not play with marked cards.Winning or losing is part of it.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

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

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

Life is tricky - you never know what's going to happen.

Life to me is defined by uncertainty. Uncertainty is the state in which we live, and there is no way to outfox it.

Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.