Chance Occurrence Quotes

#1. We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance occurrence of monstrous proportions.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. I have seen so many bands and musicians fade away, especially the ones in my early days that treated me and my bands with contempt for no other reason than that they were headlining the show, not all though, with great exceptions such as Slade and Vinegar Joe.

Bernie Marsden

#3. Technique is what you fall back on when you run out of inspiration.

Rudolf Nureyev

#4. Poetry has been to me something more than amusement, it has been a cheering companion when I had no other to fly to, a delightful solace.

Henry Kirke White

#5. The consistency of the Old Testament warnings for the covenant community formed a natural bridge to the New Testament warnings.

Scot McKnight

#6. You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction.

Stephen Colbert

#7. Honey, Maggie Jones said. Victoria. Listen to me. You're here now. This is where you are.

Kent Haruf

#8. It's going to come to fists eventually.

Carrie Jones

#9. Serendipity: Such a beautiful word describing the occurrence of events by chance. I like to think it's the energy you put out into the world
returning your energy with love.

Steven Aitchison

#10. It is the first shower that wets."
"Marriage is like picking the place where you're going to live for the next fifty years by using a wall map, a blind fold, and what you really, truly, deeply believe is your lucky dart."
"Our marriage, like all marriages, was happy until it wasn't

Tom McNeal

#11. I think there really is no shortcut to sovereignty.

Paul Bremer

#12. I wait until her breathing is soft and even against me before I let myself drift off to sleep, like I've been doing every night for the past few weeks. Slowly, everything in my life is turning into putting her first, and I'm not going to fight it.

Carian Cole

#13. 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

#14. Most men somewhere in their psyche are still dragging women around by their hair. It's terrible. I have two daughters, but even before my kids were born I always thought that it was terrible.

Danny DeVito

#15. Chloe turned to Vetch. The poet said gently, "You see, you do have power. Words give you power, to create or destroy." His eyes flickered to Clare. "Even to forgive ...

Catherine Fisher

#16. If this world was made by a triune God, relationships of love are what life is really all about.

Timothy Keller

#17. Look, I don't mean to be rude, but you could never have a normal life, even if that's what you thought you wanted. You and me, we're not 'normal.

Christina Baker Kline

#18. The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have been thrown together suddenly by some kind of freakish, vastly improbable, event. Such an occurrence would be indistinguishable from a miracle.

Michael Denton