Random Occurrence Quotes

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

Chance is a second master.

Nothing is so unpredictable as a throw of the dice, and yet every man who plays often will at some time or other make a Venus-cast: now and then he indeed will make it twice and even thrice in succession. Are we going to be so feebleminded then as to aver that such a thing happened by the personal intervention of Venus rather than by pure luck?

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

There is always room for coincidence.

Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

emotion is first of all and in principle an accident

In mathematics, as in physics, so much depends on chance, on a propitious moment.

For 13 to be unlucky would require there to be some kind of cosmic intelligence that counts things that humans count and that also makes certain things happen on certain dates or in certain places according to whether the number 13 'is involved' or not (whatever 'is involved' might mean).

All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental.

It all started when my dog began getting free roll over minutes.

Someday, you do not know when, you will be driving down the road and someday, you do not now when, you will make a wrong tun. At the end of the road, when you're least expecting it, he (or indeed she) will be there.

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22)

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

Our planet doesn't seem to be the result of anything very special.

The fact that I got Drugstore Cowboy at all was a fluke.