Joe Abercrombie Quotes

What people commonly call fate is mostly their own stupidity.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

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

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

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

Nobody gets justice. People only get good luck or bad luck.

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

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

The threads of circumstance that lead to tomorrow are so tenuous that all the fussing and worrying about decisions is futile compared to the pure randomness of existence.

Everything that is happening at this moment is a result of the choices you've made in the past.

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Luck is luck ... What we do with it determines whether it's good or bad.

My life is so random. Certain things I can't even explain. There's a thing about being lucky and... I feel like certain things are just, like, in your cards. I'm just walking the path that's already set.

You are much more dependent on luck than you think. People say if you want to have a good relationship, you have to work at it. But you never hear it about anything you really like, about sailing or going to soccer games.