Quotes About Happenstance

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

I've never planned any of my career moves. Things have just happened, and luckily, they've worked out for the best.

As for 'Great Expectations', it is up there for me with the world's greatest novels, not least as it vindicates plot as no other novel I can think of does, since what there is to find out is not coincidence or happenstance but the profoundest moral truth.

My life is studded with a series of coincidences.

There aren't any coincidences. I think things really happen for a reason.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

It's good to be good, but it's better to be lucky.

I swear, the best things come to me by accident! Or should I say, effortless destiny?

Maybe coincidence never means the way you want it to. Because if it did it wouldn't be coincidence, would it?

Since there is no script, and since humans fulfil no role in any great drama, terrible things might befall us and no power will come to save us or give meaning to our suffering. There won't be a happy ending, or a bad ending, or any ending at all. Things just happen, one after the other. The modern world does not believe in purpose, only in cause. If modernity has a motto, it is 'shit happens'.

Tara grinned. "Funny how things work out

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance—like running into Leo on the street. Sometimes through calculated decisions—like Margot's. Or mine, tonight, when I left Leo. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'

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

once was happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but thrice or more indicated the actions of your enemies.

I like to think it's another way of saying great things tend to happen all at once.

Laurence Sterne

When asked what he meant by a miracle: Oh, anything with a probability of less than 20%.

We charm by coincidence rather than design.

Serendipity (n.) finding something good without looking for it

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that. If Kitty had never sent those letters, if I hadn't gone to the hot tub that night, it might've been him and Gen. But she did send those letters, and I did go out there. It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.