Very low probability events occur very rarely, but sometimes they do happen.
Don't spend a lot of time imagining the worst-case scenario. It rarely goes down as you imagine it will, and if by some fluke it does, you will have lived it twice.
First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.
Winning once can be a fluke; winning twice proves you are the best.
We are a fluke of nature, a quirk of evolution, a glorious contingency.
I guess that my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did was the biggest record that I'll ever have.
The human propensity is to believe that flukes of good fortune will never come to an end.
Conducting was just something that happened by fluke.
The fact that I got into acting at all was kind of fluke-ish. I loved movies, but I can't remember ever really wanting to be an actress, and I certainly didn't imagine ever being in a movie. I think I wanted to be a writer.
