Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“Like no matter what we did, it was meant to be, so it was going to happen. Incidental Happenstance.” — Kim DeSalvo Copy Share Image
For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
Hey, this is weird. I ordered one frozen yogurt and they gave me two. You don’t happen to like frozen yogurt do… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one’s advantage-all, of course, under… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
Billy: So good... Hey, this is weird. I ordered one frozen yogurt and they gave me two. You don't happen to like… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific… — Paul Flory Copy Share Image
Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
I would change very little because I have been very, very fortunate. A lot of things fell into place for me simply… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
[Donald] Trump is explained with the intersection of a number of things: our economic crisis, the way it's easier to blame immigrants,… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
Nobody in my generation ever started out in private equity. We got there by accident. There was no private equity business -… — David Bonderman Copy Share Image
“This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
The cry that 'fantasy is escapist' compared to the novel is only an echo of the older cry that novels are 'escapist'… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the… — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“There are cases that I just can't forget…What it is. I don't know. I think it's the ones where something small changes… — Laura McBride Copy Share Image
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. — Robert L. Peters Copy Share Image
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. — Richard Linklater Copy Share Image
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. — Ellen Gallagher Copy Share Image
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station… — Michael Rapaport Copy Share Image
I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
![“Significant inventions are not mere accidents. The erroneous view [that they are] is widely held, and it is one that the scientific and technical community, unfortunately, has done little to dispel. Happenstance usually plays a part, to be sure, but there is much more to invention than the popular…” quote by Paul Flory](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/410/paul-flory-268619_accidents_significant-inventions-are-not-mere-acci_2340075.png)
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