Quotes About Happenstance

Think about the love of your life and the countless events that had to happen as they did to bring the two of you together. (...) Once, it was vanishingly unlikely that you two would meet. And yet, you did. What do you make of that? Most people don' think "Wow, what luck!" Instead, they take the sheer improbability of it happening, and the fact it happened, as proof it was meant to happen.

Extraño? No lo creo. Las coincidencias son los pequeños maravillosos misterios de la vida. No dudes de una coincidencia. Sólo disfrútala.

A lot of it just has to do with luck, serendipity.

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

When I think of some of my earlier work, it really seems a fortunate coincidence that I succeeded.

As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone.

Anything that happens, happens.

The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what "accident" means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what 'accident' means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what accident means.

I was discovered by a photographer. I literally was in the right place at the right time.

Perhaps the most pernicious strain of contemporary criticism says one thing before it says anything else, says it to whatever historical event or cultural happenstance is supposedly at issue: 'You can't fool me.'

Movies, to a large extent, stand or fall on the strength of their scripts. But a documentary is a collection of found objects: fragments you've collected, accidents of interview and happenstance, pieces of stock footage that surface in the course of six to nine months of research and production.

That's what has always been so surprising for The Seekers - when you think they try to create pop stars in a contrived, manufactured way and we were just four people who just happened to meet and sing together.

Bad things happen because things happen.

I don't like to date so much as I just like to kind of, you know, run into somethin', man.

A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

Stercus accidit.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.

I've had so much good luck happen to me that I can't handle bad luck.

It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.