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Quotes About Chance

In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.
~ Pope John Paul II
It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
The universe is so unique and perfect that it could not have originated by chance but was divined by flawless, creative design.
~ Fritz Zwicky
I see every chance of a long, confused and disorganizing civil war, and I feel no desire to take a hand therein.
~ William Tecumseh Sherman
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else.
~ Joe Budden
It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
~ Jean Nidetch
I believe in destiny. I believe destiny opens doors for you, but it's up to you to walk through them.
~ Zac Efron
If you are alive, there is hope for a better day and something good to happen. If there is nothing good left in the destiny of a person, he or she will die.
~ Ishmael
We make destiny with every turn, every choice.
~ Nora Roberts
Give me today, for once, the worst throw of your dice, destiny. Today I transmute everything into gold.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
Fate keeps on happening.
~ Anita Loos
You could never predict what would happen. There was an element of destiny in everything that one could never account for.
~ Danielle Steel
I believe a lot in destiny and I think that if something didn't happen, it was for a reason.
~ Didier Drogba
No one can escape his destiny.
~ Plato
I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.
~ Seneca the Younger
Sometimes you have to open yourself to the random possibilities of, I guess, destiny.
~ Andrew W.K.
Choice, not chance, determines destiny.
~ Charles E. McKenzie
We must always take risks. That is our destiny.
~ T. S. Eliot
What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
~ Haruki Murakami, 1Q84
I'm not sure I'm quite ready to have someone be a prospector of jobs for me, because I believe there's some kind of destiny involved with meeting people... some things are just meant to happen.
~ Audrey Tautou
Fate is not quite as strange as it appears!
~ John McLeod
Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.
~ Robert Breault
We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu