Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

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

To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.

In football, you never know what can happen.

One never knows how a bout is going to pan out and even in last 2-3 seconds things can change.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

There is always room for coincidence.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

Some things happen without you putting an effort, while some others things do not happen despite we wanting it to happen.

I tend to view my life as an accident, almost as a dream.

How accidental our existences are, really, and how full of influence by circumstance.

Accident is simply unforeseen order.

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

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.

Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

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.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

I've never been able to predict the future of anything.

It is nearly always the most improbable things that really come to pass.

The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.

Anything that is unexpected is the X-factor.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness.

Chance determines our lives in important ways.