Quotes About Fortuity

Maybe some things are just meant to be. maybe some things just happen, no matter what.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

Accidents are not accidents but precise arrivals at the wrong right time.

Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

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

One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.

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

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

We charm by coincidence rather than design.

To benefit from this resource in our midst, blacks must supplement the forms and patterns of striving for racial equality with innovative forms of personal self-image, group organization, resource collection and distribution, and strategic planning, using the concept of racial fortuity as a guideline.

Everything is an accident.

There's no such thing as coincidence ... only convenience.

There had never been any more between us than chance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtedness and binds closer than much else

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I did not develop my ear. I discovered I had an ear, and it was an accident.

I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents—happy or. otherwise—and taking advantage of these.

Everything happens for a reason, and there are no accidents in life—

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

Or as the Nobel laureate Max Born wrote, "Chance is a more fundamental conception than causality."3

Every film that I make is an accident.

He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate.

That I should turn up at the precise moment was one of those extraordinarily lucky breaks which we all need at some time or other during this life, but don't always get.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.