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We [people] spend so much time feeling so small and less than and insignificant and diminished because we see ourselves through our own lens. — Nichole Nordeman

We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. — Penelope Lively

For as is often the happenstance with that which is precious and lost, when you find him again, he may well not be quite as you left him. — Cassandra Clare

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it. — Robert Penn Warren

Any ham-handed idiot can make a woman scream. I prefer to assess ... responsiveness. — Cherise Sinclair

It takes, unhappily, no more than a desk and writing supplies to turn any room into a confessional. — Thomas Pynchon

Innocence is the beginning of ignorance. Experience is the end of stupidity. — Michael Bassey Johnson

My work is on the one hand laboured, and on the other completely happenstance and intuitive. — Ellen Gallagher

My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene. — Roger Zelazny

It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance. — Richard Linklater

Mount and begone. The world awaits you. — Mervyn Peake

Design is the application of intent - the opposite of happenstance, and an antidote to accident. — Robert L. Peters

She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus. — Frank Herbert

Chromosomal dance oh, heavenly happenstance rare creation, you -Marcus (Poetry Spam #22) — Megan McCafferty

There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books. — Ellery Adams

Once was happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but thrice or more indicated the actions of your enemies. — Robert Jordan

Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits. — Pope Francis

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. — David Quammen

I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower. — Naomie Harris

I suppose, all told, I've done more good than evil in my life, but that's incidental, a product of happenstance and the bizarre caprices of the world. — David Brin

Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you. — Scott Lynch

The designs of men are notoriously subservient to happenstance, hesitation, and haste; but — Amor Towles

I've learned ... that we should be glad God doesn't give us everything we ask for. — Andy Rooney

Meant-to-be-picked-up books. Permanently-left-behind books. Uncertain-what-to-do-with books. But books, books. — J.D. Salinger

Happenstance intersecting with received wisdom produces something entirely new and significant — William Boyd

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action — Ian Fleming

Every job will demand some sacrifice. The key is to avoid unnecessary sacrifice. — Sheryl Sandberg

Mr Bond, they have a saying in Chicago: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it's enemy action'. — Ian Fleming

You trip over a word while carrying
a tray of vocabulary out to the pool
only to discover that broken glass
is a good topic. — Billy Collins

You two have just reached the level of annoyingly cute, America grinned. — Jamie McGuire

Peace is not happenstance. It is a living fire that must be fed constantly. It must be tended to with vigilance, else it dies out. — Libba Bray

The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance ... has helped to determine your path through life. — Rowan Atkinson

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power. — George Carlin