Ludwig Tieck Quotes

Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.

It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

A day may sink or save a realm.

Everybody is dealt a hand of cards. It was my choice to play them the way I played them.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Everything that happens is meant to be. It's meant to happen like that. But sometimes you don't know at the time that it's meant to be disaster.

Some things arrive in their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Fortuna smiles and frowns according to a timetable surprising even to herself.

Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.

Fate is strange, and our destinies can be shaped by very small decisions.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

The days, months, and years eventually reveal, like a Polaroid, a clear picture of how significant events and decisions ultimately shape our lives.

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'

Certain projects find you at the right time.

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

You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

Timing has always been a key element in my life. I have been blessed to have been in the right place at the right time.

Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

You often hear people say 'Luck is self made.' I think it is, to a certain extent; if you work hard on something, you are more likely to be lucky than if you don't. That having been said, I do believe during in my career I have been at the right place at the right time with the right people.

Can you make a mistake and miss your fate?

When things happen - you ask yourself why today, why not tomorrow, why not yesterday? That's the most amazing thing about time.

You never think the universe will reward your first choice - it just doesn't work like that.