Jason Statham Quotes

You know, the process, I think, is the story. And it goes back, again, to what I said about chance and about radical contingency, the idea that all of this is this well-oiled machine that's been reared up and, like, really articulated and thought about.

Everything's serendipitous and there's no way of knowing who's going to get sick or who's going to get hit by a bus or who's going to fall in love and who's going to get pregnant. All the things that happen, it's up for grabs so it's kind of an exercise in surrender in a way.

Much in our lives is chance.

I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

I don't believe in fate," she said at last. "But I do believe in...loopholes. I think a lot of what keeps the world going is the result of accidents — happy or otherwise — and taking advantage of these.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.

Every single moment is a coincidence.

No amount of thought can ever reveal what comes unexpectedly.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

The greatest events occur without intention playing any part in them; chance makes good mistakes and undoes the most carefully planned undertaking. The world's greatest events are not produced, they happen.

He [the historian] should recognize in the development of human destinies the play of the contingent and the unforeseen.

I don't plan life. Love, marriage, or relationships can't be pre-planned. Whenever it has to happen, it will happen.

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

Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in a river of chance and coincidence. You clung to the happiest accidents- the rest you let float by.

I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

It is often to the wary that the events in life are unexpected. Looser types-people who are not busy weighing and measuring every little thing-are used to accidents, coincidences, chance, things getting out of hand, things sneaking up on them. They are the happy children of life, to whom life happens for better or worse.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.