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Quotes About Happenstance

Things Just Happen, What The Hell
~ Terry Pratchett
Life, and the world, sometimes just kinda click, and things just happen. You're chasing it, but it finds you at the same time.
~ Mia Goth
Do you leave the formation of memories to happenstance, or do you decide to remember?
~ Gabrielle Zevin
something very unlikely happened which by sheer chance mattered more to him than anybody else it could have happened to.
~ Iain Banks
Goldfinger said, Mr. Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, the third time it's enemy action.
~ Ian Fleming
Some of the most important determinants of life paths arise through the most trivial of circumstances.
~ Albert Bandura
Sometimes I think some things just happen and are meant to be.
~ JaVale McGee
It began, as many good things do, with a coincidence.
~ Mitch Albom
The same highly unlikely thing never happens to the same person twice.
~ Cecelia Ahern
himself that the incident was just a strange coincidence, a random occurrence.
~ C.J. Box
Accidents. It's all about the accidents.
~ Gayle Forman
Siempre es sobre accidentes
~ Gayle Forman
The long arm of coincidence.
~ Anonymous
Love is a gamble and sometimes it hurts, but whether you win or lose being in love is a beautiful thing.
~ M.J. Abraham, Happenstance
Of course it's all luck.
~ Henri Cartier-Bresson
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.
~ Richard Linklater
Give luck a chance to happen.
~ Tom Kite
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
~ Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This same point can be generalized to life: maximize the serendipity around you.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Noble Savage. Positive or negative, in both images Indians lacked what social scientists call agency—they were not actors in their own right, but passive recipients of whatever windfalls or disasters happenstance put in their way.
~ Charles C. Mann
If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.
~ William Klein
La casualidad es la única dueña y señora del universo.
~ Kerstin Gier
Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.
~ Gerald Vizenor