Lisa See Quotes

Things tend to come when they are meant to come. I know that sounds kind of like spiritual and cheesy, but I think things come when they're meant to come.

I guess you just fall into things when to you're supposed to.

I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.

If something is meant to be, then it will be.

Life sort of works out the way it works out.

When I first met with Kurt [Sutter], it was one of those moments where you feel everything is happening for a reason.

If it's meant to be for you, it's going to happen.

Luck has a lot to do with how your life develops.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

Casting sometimes is fate and destiny more than skill and talent, from a director's point of view.

I don't know if I believe in luck. I think I'm very fortunate.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

I'm a great believer in fate. I think things happen in spite of, and despite, yourself.

I believe destiny and hard work go hand in hand. I was studying to be an engineer when my mom and my brother sent my pictures for the Miss India contest. I didn't even know about it. If that isn't destiny, what is?

Everybody has to be a little lucky, I think.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

So that is how I ended up with those two titles, I like Accidentally on Purpose better - it is how we work in our trade - is it really an accident, or is there a thread of destiny in there? That was the intention, I am not sure I found out.

Few people realize that luck is created.

My life is a series of things that just happen.