Quotes About Happenstance

I suppose, all told, I've done more good than evil in my life, but that's incidental, a product of happenstance and the bizarre caprices of the world.

En este mundo ojete nada es casualidad y todo es coincidencia.

There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know.

The great adventures of life, the surprise of strangers, of strangeness, of the electric and eclectic moments of happenstance, and also of extreme ambition, are slowly being removed by code as a path to a new contentment. We are using the acceleration of information transmission to decelerate changes in our physical world.

concepto de casualidad

We always loved to say 'If I'd had a Monday-morning class, I never would have met you'. Or 'If you'd been reading something else, none of this would have happened'. We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads. Happenstances. I just happened to be one of them.

There is law enough all about us in almanack and season, anniversary days come round, the round earth's carnivale of chimes and recessionals. Good to be included there. Good also what is not fixed or sure even, the second breath of being here when the May-bush snows in mid-September, as giddy happenstance leads us this way into a lost one's arms, or that way deeper into the maze.

The best=laid plans, one's most fastidious contingency strategies have revealed themselves in the cold light of day to be laughably inadequate, no match for the happenstance that seems of late only to promise death, mayhem, poverty, flood. And here you are, having spent all that time protecting your home from the oncoming elements only to find that it has been shored up with crackers.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

There's no such thing as accidents.

Acknowledgements Reading Group Notes Timeline About the Author By Ian Rankin Copyright Serendipity. According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make 'happy chance finds'. Serendip was the old name for Ceylon. Horace Walpole is credited with coining the term, after the fairy tale 'The Three Princes of Serendip', whose titular heroes were always stumbling across things they weren't looking for.

the club coincided.

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.

Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable.

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident.

Fate keeps on happening.

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.

Sometimes it's not important why something happens, just that it happens, and that is important.

Like accidents, marriages result because those involved happen to arrive at what might be the wrong place, at the same time.

Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!

chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)

After all, I was a woman who regularly ran into things, who tripped and who sometimes felt frazzled. I found that some of the best things in life happened when you accidentally bumped into them.

There is however the concept which Ian Fleming allowed "Goldfinger" to propound: "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time is enemy action.