Quotes About Serendipity

It had to happen to someone. There is nothing exceptional about you, any more than there is about the first neutron that starts the chain reaction in an atomic bomb. It simply happens to be the first. Any other neutron would have served

Rolf van der Berg was the right man, in the right place, at the right time; no other combination would have worked. Which, of course, is how much of history is made.

He asked, Is there someone else in love with you? You're in luck, sir, there's been a cancellation.

How happy we all are, she thought, and how lucky that I came at last!

Everything was one big joke. There are people like that, you know. Not many, but they're around. It's my luck that their path had to cross mine.

My mother says, "It's not brains or good looks that a person needs, it's luck.

Who says you need luck to be lucky?" my mother answered, looking at me. Search me what that means.

For any director with a little lucidity, masterpieces are films that come to you by accident.

Fate will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.

There had been a time when he would have thought this serendipity happened because God was on his side. Now he sees the arrogance of that thought.

Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.

The rational part of my brain understands that everything is random. There are a million possibilities in the universe. Us meeting is just one of those possibilities, and just as meaningless. The thing is, though, I can't imagine a world that didn't bring us together. We were meant to be.

I think my life dramatically shifted when I met Lucas [Goodman] and it wasn't even planned. I had a very clear vision of what I was going to do.

The best things in life sometimes happen spontaneously.

That powerWhich erring men call Chance.

In a manner which matches the fortuity, if not the consequence, of Archimedes' bath and Newton's apple, the [3.6 million year old] fossil footprints were eventually noticed one evening in September 1976 by the paleontologist Andrew Hill, who fell while avoiding a ball of elephant dung hurled at him by the ecologist David Western.

Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.

Fate was working its ass off when it got us all together.

I did it," Gabriel said, conversationally. "I met the woman, the only woman for me. I met her, and now . . . I'm going to meet my wife.

It was at once a miracle and the most natural thing in the world.

I was a firm believer in the idea that coincidences always came along at the right time. I felt there was some kind of reason for the way things happened as they did, like bubbles from my subconscious mind rising to the surface.

E' un po' come quando si costruisce una casa: si cerca il terreno, si assume un progettista e c'è persino chi vuole scegliere in prima persona tutto il materiale di cui saranno fatti i muri. Io però non sono una persona di questo tipo, preferisco che le cose mi capitino quasi per caso, quindi cerco di farmele andare bene e intanto imparo a conoscerle.

By the way, I'm Charlie." Still bent over, she laughed. The phone slipped; she pushed it back up. "I'm Carly, and that is too much. When I was in high school, I dated a guy named Harley. When I was in college, I roomed with a girl named Marley. My sister's engaged to a guy named Farley. And now you're Charlie.

The magic of scavenging is in the serendipity of the find; to actually hunt for objects - though sometimes necessary - diminishes the pleasure of finding them.