Happenstance Quote by Yann Martel

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your…

— Rita Mae Brown

“If something or someone is presented to us once, we will often dismiss it as being nothing more than happenstance. If that person or…

— Scott Hildreth

Not only is it not remarkable to be a single woman, there's no stigma attached. You see more and more women choosing to be…

— Pepper Schwartz

“Questions are not happenstance thoughts nor are questions common problems of today which one picks up from hearsay and booklearning and decks out with…

— Martin Heidegger

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…

— Jodi Picoult

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…

— Karen Finerman

I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel…

— Vincent Price

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

— George Carlin

There are moments that define a person's whole life. Moments in which everything they are and everything they may possibly become balance on a…

— Jonathan Maberry

Nobody in my generation ever started out in private equity. We got there by accident. There was no private equity business - actually, the…

— David Bonderman

Try to be happy within the context of the life we are actually living. Happiness is not a situation to be longed for or…

— Wayne Coyne

“Adventures call a valiant few, happenstance upon calls many.”

— Anastasia Bolinder