In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined. — Nicholas Sparks
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen — Rod McKuen
Luck, that's when preparation and opportunity meet. — Pierre Trudeau
Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes. — Kary Mullis
Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner. — Edgar Cayce
some people meet the way the sky meets the earth, inevitably, and there is no stopping or holding back their love. It exists in a finished world, beyond the reach of common sense. — Louise Erdrich
I happened to be in the right place at the right time. — Calvin Harris
Good fortune is what happens when opportunity meets with planning. — Thomas A. Edison
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life. — Gary Gygax
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. — Thomas Fuller
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. — Seneca
Chance Meeting Image Quotes
I knew when I met you an adventure is going to happen.
Chance Meeting Love Quotes
The chances you take… the people you meet… the people you love...the faith that you have - that’s what’s going to define your life. — Denzel Washington
What are the chances you’d ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible. — Rainbow Rowell
All my photographs are about meetings and about coups de foudre - love at first sight. To do that type of photography, one must wipe the canvas clean to prepare for chance encounters, be open and aware to such moments, otherwise it becomes a cliché - already seen and expected. — Edouard Boubat
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
The beauty of all these years of singing the anthem is that I got a chance to meet athletes that I love, and there was a mutual respect. — Jeffrey Osborne
I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near normal life. Whilst walking I do get the chance to meet people and keep in touch. — David Blunkett
One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love. — Elizabeth Aston
Sometimes there is no next time, no time-outs, no second chances. Sometimes it's now or never.
I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out Depeche Mode. But mostly I wanted stuff with pentagrams and crowns of thorns on it. — Brian Posehn
I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration. — Thia Megia
I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football. — Vijender Singh
But as far as being an American and loving this country and getting a chance to travel across it every day and meeting people on the road and folks in the military, I love this country on so many different levels. — Dierks Bentley
Have A Successful Meeting Quotes
remember to recognize the small successes that you will have. Don't let the brightness of that big goal blind you to what happens on the way toward the goal. Meet one wave at a time and enjoy what progress you make. I want you please not to be taken up in the undertow of pessimism. — Lucille Ball
Practice is important. The regular season is important. Your meetings are important. Your walk-through is important. Everything is important. You want to be a championship team, there's a price to pay. And that's what you have to do. There's no shortcuts. You can't shortcut your way to success. — Tom Thibodeau
Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It's fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need. — Bill Gates
Live your life. Take chances. Be crazy. Don't wait. Because right now is the oldest you've ever been and the youngest you'll ever be again.
I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology. — Camille Paglia
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. — Henry David Thoreau
If you meet people who have been successful in Hollywood, or look a their photographs, you see a haunted look in their eyes, you sense a trapped feeling. — Meg Tilly
Some souls just understand each other upon meeting.
Our markets have not achieved their great successes as a result of government fiat, but rather through efforts of competing interests working to meet the demands of investors and to fulfill the promises posed by advancing technology. — Arthur Levitt
It's not enough to have a strategy for success. Great strategy is available for free online for everything from career success to meeting Mr. or Ms. Right. You must also tell yourself the right story. — Tony Robbins
The success of a meeting often depends on having the right documents - proofs, artwork, schedules, research charts, etc. - present at the start of the meeting. All too often we arrive like plumbers, leaving our tools behind. — David Ogilvy
When You Get A Chance Quotes
I've felt some great feelings on the baseball field... in front of 50,000 people and millions on TV... but the feeling you get when you give a kid a chance, that is a hundred times greater than that feeling. — Cal Ripken, Jr.
If you keep trying to hit a four but you keep on getting only one run. Then chances are when you will hit a six you will get caught. — Vijay Kedia
And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again. — Richard Russo
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Don't complain about not getting a chance and then be unprepared when you finally do. — Joe Montana
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again. — Aidan Chambers
In a game, you never know what chance you’re going to get, so I try and cover all bases and make sure I’m ready for that chance when it comes. — Harry Kane
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean. Whenever one door closes I hope one more opens. Promise me that you'll give faith a fighting chance. And when you get the choice to sit it out or dance, I hope you dance. — Lee Ann Womack
Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary. — Lewis Hamilton
When you start you're trying to achieve staying alive and getting home. If you can do both of those, then you stand a chance of breaking the record. — Ellen MacArthur
There's a thing called game, and when you're out and you're trying to push up on a female and you're going, "Yo, I want to be your knight in shining armor," chances are you're going to get a drink on your face. — Shemar Moore
Chance Encounters Quotes
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur
The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.' — Zig Ziglar
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute. — Frederick Reines
The 3 C's in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the choice, take the chance, if you want anything in life to change.
As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table. — Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont
I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters. — Paulo Coelho
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event. — Arthur Koestler
Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters. — Charles Traub
In an age of synthetic images and synthetic emotions, the chances of an accidental encounter with reality are remote indeed. — Serge Daney
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal. — Anthony Trollope
Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter. — Jeffrey Deitch
Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need — Parker J. Palmer
There are no strangers in here, just friends you haven't meet.
I like chance meetings--life is full of them. Everyday, without realizing it, I pass people whom I should know. At this moment, in this cafe, we're sitting next to strangers. Everyone will get up, leave, and go on their own way. And they'll never meet again. And if they do, they won't realize that it's not for the first time. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
First, we are born in the same galaxy. Born of the same species. Our lifetimes overlap. The meetings between humans are so unlikely as to be miraculous. To laugh, to cry, and to fall in love. Everyone is made up of a collection of 1% chances. Thus, I am dazzled by the fact that there are so many miracles in this world. — Hikaru Nakamura
We meet no ordinary people in our lives. If you give them a chance, everyone has something amazing to offer. — Sayings
This cruel age has deflected me, like a river from this course. Strayed from its familiar shores, my changeling life has flowed into a sister channel. How many spectacles I've missed: the curtain rising without me, and falling too. How many friends I never had the chance to meet. — Anna Akhmatova
Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence. — Haruki Murakami
There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken. — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Best thing about doing Youtube as a job - the Youtube friends that I've met all around the world, that I never would have got the chance to meet without Youtube. — Tyler Oakley
People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings. — Sayings
It was an honor and a thrill to have the chance to meet His Holiness, Pope Benedict, and then to have lunch with Prime Minister Berlusconi.... I think Italy and the U. S. have a very strong friendship and relationship, and I'm proud of that. — Laura Bush
The longer you're with the wrong person, you could be completely overlooking the chance to meet the right person. — Taylor Swift
Life can unmoor so many feelings; it is a relief we sleep through it.
Night unravels the day and reinvents it for the first time.
We may mean nothing to time, but to each other we are kings and queens, and the world is a wild benevolent garden filled with chance meetings and unexplained departures. — Simon Van Booy
It was a chance meeting with a lady at Mariah Carey's record company who was here in our office, actually. And I pulled her in here to this very office that we're sitting in now, and I played her the clip of me and George Michael singing. And I was like, it's joyful. And that's what people want. — James Corden
I have pledged - to you, the rating agencies and myself - to always run Berkshire with more than ample cash. We never want to count on the kindness of strangers in order to meet tomorrow's obligations. When forced to choose, I will not trade even a night's sleep for the chance of extra profits. — Warren Buffett
Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward. — Augusten Burroughs
It's one of the most beautiful memories of my life. Not everyone has a chance to meet Greta Garbo! I was so in awe of her that I recently had my assistant search online for her film Queen Christina [1933]. I cherish that rare DVD like a precious keepsake now. — Giovanna Cau
Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators. — Michio Kaku
I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime. — Angela Lansbury
So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents. — Logan Pearsall Smith
What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus. — Haruki Murakami
And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on. — Dr. Seuss
In college I never realized the opportunities available to a pro athlete. I've been given the chance to meet all kinds of people, to travel and expand my financial capabilities, to get ideas and learn about life, to create a world apart from basketball. — Michael Jordan
There's Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 1 and 2, and Ratatouille. It's super surreal. We've been working on this for eight years nonstop. Every week we've had a Sausage Party meeting, and now it won't be on our to-do list anymore. It's like the end of summer camp. — Evan Goldberg
For Kenya: we have a chance to start again each time we meet one another. The ghosts do not need to define the future. — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
We Americans have a chance to become someday a nation in which all racial stocks and classes can exist in their own selfhoods, but meet on a basis of respect and equality and live together, socially, economically, and politically. — Shirley Chisholm
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life. — Havelock Ellis
To meet the expectations of the majority of our people, and to open up new vistas of economic opportunity so that the aspirations of Nigerians can stand a fair chance of being fulfilled in a lifetime, there must be a truly committed leadership in a democratic Nigeria. — Ibrahim Babangida
You might be a redneck if you look upon a family reunion as a chance to meet 'Ms. Right — Jeff Foxworthy
This was a secret meeting on a secret tour which nobody is supposed to know about. It means that there are men, and perhaps women, in this country walking around with eggs in their pockets, just on the off-chance of seeing the Prime Minister. — Edward Heath
One feature about Los Angeles that I particularly love is the chance for association with all kinds of creative artists, a thing I never before have had. I certainly do love a number of the writers, the painters, the musicians, and the sculptors that I meet here. ... Next to the sunshine, I appreciate it the most of anything in California. — Gene Stratton-Porter
When panting sighs the bosom fill,
And hands by chance united thrill
At once with one delicious pain
The pulses and the nerves of twain;
When eyes that erst could meet with ease,
Do seek, yet, seeking, shyly shun
Ecstatic conscious unison, -
The sure beginnings, say, be these
Prelusive to the strain of love
Which angels sing in heaven above? — Arthur Hugh Clough
Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes. — Daniel Pinchbeck
Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes. — Aristotle
I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something. — Paul Theroux
What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time. — Guy Browning
She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet. — Jane Austen
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