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Quotes About Fortuity

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.
~ Charles Darwin
Make chance essential.
~ Paul Klee
HIs life was always a happenstance.
~ Yann Martel
For me, everything has always been an accident.
~ Craig Charles
I got into films by accident.
~ Zeenat Aman
Is anything accidental?
~ Norman Spinrad
I am an accidental actor.
~ Saqib Saleem
There's no such thing as accidents.
~ Peyton Hillis
I lucked out. I got in just when animation just started to take off.
~ Jeff Bennett
Nothing happens by accident, Norman, she'd said. It's all part of a larger plan.
~ Unknown
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.
~ Jodi Picoult
Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.
~ Robert Altman
What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.
~ Katsuki Sekida
It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.
~ Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw
~ Robert A. Heinlein
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.
~ Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall
Any memory for the most part depending on chance.
~ Philip Larkin
The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.
~ Paul Auster
Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.
~ Jodi Picoult
He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.
~ John Irving
Nevermind nomenclatures, boy! What a serendipitous situation this is!
~ Unknown
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
~ Brian Tracy
Accidents that lead to accidents that lead to more accidents. Happy accidents.
~ Michael Ruhlman