Edwin Hubbel Chapin Quotes

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

I'd rather have luck on my side than anything else.

It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation.

I think there is certainly luck and fate involved in any career of any kind. In show business, maybe it's even more true.

Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

Men have made an idol of luck as an excuse for their own thoughtlessness.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Look, sometimes, no matter how hard you try, sometimes you need a bit of luck.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Is anything accidental?

My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.

I love the fact that it starts from there, and you don't know where it's gonna go. Wait long enough - love will find you. Everything's a surprise. When you think you've got it all figured out... as Emerson said, the dice of God are always loaded.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

I am a great believer in luck.

In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.

Luck and misfortune are closely intertwined.

Sometimes you are lucky, sometimes you're unlucky. It all weighs out at the end. That is my experience at least.

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'