Allan Houston Quotes

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

I let one thing result from another. Of course, all of it could have been just loosely connected coincidences. And whether that's true or not, I know the intention was there. Becasue when I want something to happen-or not happen- I begin to look at all events and all things as relevant, an opportunity to take or avoid.

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

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

Is anything accidental?

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

Just because you make a good plan, doesn't mean that's what's gonna happen.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

Nothing in this world happens by chance

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

Sometimes serendipity is just intention unmasked.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

Fate is unpenetrated causes.

Anything that happens, happens.

Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

I always say there are no coincidences.

I don't believe in coincidences.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.