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We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. -- Penelope Lively
Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. -- Ian Fleming
It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. -- Richard Linklater
The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life. -- Rowan Atkinson
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. -- Karen Finerman
Happenstance is the myth of the simple mind, for it is the deliberate genius of God that what appears entirely disjointed always reveals itself to be stunningly seamless. And it is in reflecting on such stunning ingenuity that our faith becomes seamless. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power. -- George Carlin
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. -- Ellen Gallagher
Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. -- Robert L. Peters
Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out. -- Libba Bray
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. -- Cassandra Clare
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 single as well as happenstance. -- Pepper Schwartz
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. -- Nicholson Baker
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. -- Rita Mae Brown
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. -- Ronald Perelman
People make decisions that may have one intent and yet are somehow perverted into something else. And sometimes it's because of design. Sometimes it's because of happenstance. But very often, it's mysterious to them. -- Atom Egoyan
If an essay has a 'motive,' it is linked more to happenstance and opportunity than to the driven will. A genuine essay is not a doctrinaire tract or a propaganda effort or a broadside. -- Cynthia Ozick
There's so much happenstance, so many accidents - stumbling into something and finding it interesting and living with it over time and building on it. It's okay to work from doubt. You need to be willing to not know. -- Ellen Gallagher
As my father wrote, one's courage, hope, and spirit can be severely tried by the happenstance of life. But as I learned on this Virginia mountain, so long as one never loses faith, it is impossible to ever truly be alone. -- David Baldacci
The most powerful life is the most simple life. The most powerful life is the life that knows where it's going, that knows where the source of strength is; it is the life that stays free of clutter and happenstance and hurriedness. -- Max Lucado
Events," I say to the Captain, "events control our lives, although we have no understanding of them nor do they have any motivation. Everything is blind chance, happenstance, occurrence; in an infinite universe anything can happen. After the fact we find reasons. -- Barry N. Malzberg
One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance. -- Dean Koontz
The effect hip-hop had on me was enormous. I was exposed to it by happenstance. My father worked at a radio station in New York called WKTU Disco 92. It was the first radio station in New York City to play disco in the late '70s. -- Michael Rapaport
This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next. -- Louise Erdrich
Someone was trying to kill Lady Alexia Maccon. It was most inconvenient, as she was in a dreadful hurry. Given her previous familiarity with near-death experiences and their comparative frequency with regards to her good self, Alexia should probably have allowed extra time for such a predictable happenstance. -- Gail Carriger
I went to really good New York City public schools that had arts programs. So in junior high, I got into the drama department. From there, I went to a performing arts high school in New York City called Laguardia and I just kind of fell into the professional side by happenstance. -- Merritt Wever
Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things. -- David Bowick
My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. But that's the swish in the work, I think. It's really important to me that the work isn't just sitting on top of something, that the materials are woven together - that they are recognisable and from the world. -- Ellen Gallagher
We can't afford to stand pat while the world races by. The United States of America did not become the most prosperous nation on Earth by sheer luck or happenstance. We got here because each time a generation of Americans has faced a changing world, we have changed with it. We have not feared our future; we have shaped it. -- Barack Obama
chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) -- Megan McCafferty
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. -- David Quammen
She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus. -- Frank Herbert
I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance. -- Jesse Ball
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
Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons. -- John Burroughs
Hey, this is weird. I ordered one frozen yogurt and they gave me two. You don't happen to like frozen yogurt do you? I love it! You're kidding! What a crazy, random happenstance! -- Joss Whedon

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