Quotes About Coincidence

I'd have these weird experiences where I'd just be walking down the street with this chord progression in my head, this happened more than a few times, and I'd walk home and find a fax in my machine and it would match the music in my head.

I like it when you have something happening by coincidence. Just something in a book is enough. But I prefer a fragment of an image so you are far more free to bring in elements of your own.

Everything in my life happened by coincidence. Even my role in 'Delhi Belly.'

For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

Two friends and I decided to get tattoos of different animals. My one friend got a bulldog. My other friend got a bull, I think, and then I got a shark. Two years later, there was a cartoon called 'Street Sharks,' and by happenstance, it looked eerily reminiscent of my tattoo. Actually, it was identical.

I think cops cause more accidents than they prevent. When you're driving and see a cop ahead, what do you do? Slam on the brakes and struggle to get your seatbelt on. Next to every accident you always see a police car. Coincidence? I think not.

It's no mere coincidence that over the last century the top earners' share of the nation's total income peaked in 1928 and 2007—the two years just preceding the biggest downturns.

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

Coincidence is how being ta'veren works," Verin said. "You find a discarded object that is of great use to you, or happen to meet an individual at just the right time. Random chance randomly works in your favor. Or haven't you noticed?" She smiled. "Care to throw some dice on it?

once was happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but thrice or more indicated the actions of your enemies.

What is to be will be, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

I like to think it's another way of saying great things tend to happen all at once.

Laurence Sterne

It is sad when two people turn from the paths they're traveling, and their paths go on to cross without them.

What we still designate as chance, merely depends on a concatenation of circumstances, the internal connection and final causes of which we have as yet been unable to unravel.

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

Our eyes met across the crowded room, like in the movies, except we didn't share a knowing smile and race into each other's arms. Instead I fell into the trash can.

Only in youth does coincidence seem the same as fate. Later, we know that the real course of our lives is decided within us; our paths may seem to diverge from our wishes in a confused and pointless way, but in the end the way always leads us to our invisible destination.

Love has a funny way of showing up when you aren't looking for it and didn't plan on it.

We charm by coincidence rather than design.

Is this happy coincidence just good luck, or an act of providence, or what? No, it is simply that we could not live on planets without such properties. Many other planets exist that are not so hospitable to life, such as Uranus, where the temperature is –371 degrees Fahrenheit, or Venus, where the rain is sulfuric acid.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.