Happenstance Quotes

Happenstance Quote of the day

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

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance.

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

I am placed in situations with opportunities in those situations that others are not. I don't believe that that is happenstance. I believe that there is a God that has a plan for me.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

In an infinite Universe anything can happen.

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

Serendipity is nice, but hoping for luck and the magic of happenstance shouldn't be an excuse for a lack of proactivity. I had to learn for myself that waiting isn't a life plan.

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it.

For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

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.

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and they won't coalesce ever again.

Fate’ and ‘coincidence’ are the mythological derivatives authored by those who refuse to see a ‘greater purpose’, because such a conclusion would naturally suggest a ‘Greater Being’.

Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity.

The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.