Quotes About Fortuity

Listen," I said. "It really was luck. I've got a knack for classic arcade games. That's my specialty." I shrugged. "Stop hitting yourself like Rain Man, OK?" She

Sometimes things happen for a reason...

I used to have a theory in my mind that if no serious move had happened before I was 38 - not 40, oddly - then I would move into management or something. Fortunately, I was offered 'The Frost Report' when I was 37, so that was a close thing, too.

It was by accident I got into wrestling. Somebody didn't show up, and I just filled in.

One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

I'm sure there are close calls that we're not even aware of hundreds of times a year. You cross the street, and if you'd crossed the street two minutes later, you'd have been hit by a car, but you'd never know it. I'm sure that kind of stuff happens all the time.

Coincidence is the exception, not the rule.

A good many things happen without planning or consent. I wager no one consulted you before dubbing you a termagant.

We do not see our hand in what happens, and so we call certain events melancholy accidents...

I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes.

After all, I am alive only by accident.

Sometimes you are in just the right place.

Luck has a way of evaporating when you lean on it.

More science happens through lucky accidents than you'd believe (...).

The best things in life are the things you do by mistake.

I was lucky; I got so many opportunities.

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?

our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidences. co-incidence means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time.

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

Rastlant?lar?n, sadece rastlant?lar?n söyleyecek bir sözü vard?r bize. Gereklilikten doÄŸan, olmas?n? beklediÄŸimiz, günbegün yinelenen her ÅŸey dilsizdir. Sadece rastlant?lar bir ÅŸeyler söyler bize.