To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure…

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

— Hermann Hesse

To what do I owe the pleasure?

— Magnus

“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 (...)…

— Milan Kundera

It was very fortuitous that the show [True Detective] actually spans seventeen years - so as I was getting older on the show, I…

— Michelle Monaghan

However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in…

— Eric Hoffer

Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but…

— Leonardo da Vinci

A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that…

— John Ray

We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has…

— Carl Sagan

Western civilization, because of fortuitous historical circumstances, has spread itself more widely than any other local group that has so far been known.

— Ruth Benedict

When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand in this…

— Thomas Reid

It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social…

— Barbara Kruger

I didn't start acting until I was 27, and that was just through Gary Shandling and Ben Stiller who I knew through stand-up. And…

— Janeane Garofalo

Timing in my life has been fortuitous.

— Joe Buck

Mathematics transfigures the fortuitous concourse of atoms into the tracery of the finger of God.

— Herbert Turnbull

I went from an unemployed actor's life to doing stand-up comedy, and that was fortuitous. It's not the usual way the crow flies, going…

— Catherine Tate