Quotes About Chance Encounters

#1. One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.

Gregory Maguire

#2. I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters.

Paulo Coelho

#3. Chance encounters are what keep us going.

Haruki Murakami

#4. There are no chance encounters with God.

Kristy Cambron

#5. History is often the tale of small moments - chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence - that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly's wings that triggers a hurricane.

Scott Anderson

#6. Chance encounters are often the routes through which opportunities manifest themselves.

Ashwin Sanghi

#7. If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?

Simon Pegg

#8. Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

Masha Tupitsyn

#9. Everything that begins as comedy ends as a comic monologue, but we aren't laughing anymore.

Roberto Bolano

#10. Apple is so focused on its vision that it does things in a very careful, deliberate way.

John Sculley

#11. When I reflect on how things have changed, I can't help but laugh.

Alexis Korner

#12. The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God ...

Pope John Paul II

#13. For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.

Charles Traub

#14. The conflict each day is whether to immerse in books or writing. I can't do one without the other, but I can't do both at the same time. It is the writer's paradox.

Patricia Hickman

#15. A historical materialist approaches a historical subject only where he encounters it as a monad. In this structure he recognizes the sign of a Messianic cessation of happening, or, put differently, a revolutionary chance in the fight for the oppressed past.

Walter Benjamin

#16. Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities.

Eric Holder

#17. As the shadow in early morning, is friendship with the wicked; it dwindles hour by hour. But friendship with the good increases, like the evening shadows, till the sun of life sets.

Johann Gottfried Herder

#18. The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

Zig Ziglar

#19. It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that lead to great events. A chance encounter, a thoughtless remark - and the tortuous chain reaction of coincidence is set in motion, leading with devious inevitability to some resounding climax.

Patricia Moyes

#20. The decisions that we write off as momentary, insignificant, incidental, everyday encounters are exactly when we have a chance to define ourselves. To find beauty. To engage the world around us. To create memories.

Teri Hatcher

#21. Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

Gary W. Goldstein

#22. Yes, for my undergrad I majored in Criminal Justice and minored in Political Science and English.

Matthew McGrory

#23. The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.

Yolanda Adams