Quotes About Coincidence

It has been argued that the spontaneous emergence of life on Earth would have been such a rare event that it is the equivalent of a strong wind blowing through a junkyard and, from the materials there, creating an entire jumbo jet, by accident. That, the argument goes on, is how likely it would be for organic molecules to fit together through chance alone in just the right combination to make even the most basic life forms—quite an amazing level of coincidence

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic. That's because it doesn't happen the way it does in books. It makes those chains of coincidence. That's what it is.

You can almost always find chains of coincidence to disprove magic.

Everything begins and ends at exactly the right time and place.

Hannah! You've simply got to stop finding bodies. I swear you attract them like a magnet. If you're not careful, everyone's going to get the wrong impression of you." - Delores Swenson

I believe that, magically, the book we are supposed to read somehow appears in our hands at just the right time.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

I didn't find you, I tripped over you. If I hadn't, I would have walked right into them.

One thing hits me," Hanne said at last. "Each of these deaths in a sense is circumscribed by Maria." "What do you mean?" "The day Iselin died, Maria travelled to

Il y avait dans cette coïncidence surprenante, quasi inouïe, le signe d'une rencontre mystérieuse et d'une histoire qu'il fallait vivre.

It's only by coincidence I started working with my father - all because of King Abdullah's decision not to grant my promotion. God bless his soul, he did me a favor.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.

Tudo o mais é uma grande maçada para quem está presente por acaso. E a sociedade em que nascemos é o lugar onde mais por acaso estamos presentes.

I'm a big believer in fate, and it's working out well so far.

Everything that ever happened to me fell in my lap.

Every film that I make is an accident.

It's a coincidence that most of the films I have done are to do with social causes.

Love finds you. You always get smacked with love when you least expect it.

I was meant to be a composer. I was meant to meet my wife and have our three children. There were a number of factors that led to all of that happening, which, if you mapped it out, you would say, 'God, a lot had to go right for all of those things to line up.'

One of my lifelong hobbies has been to collect 'aptronyms' - the newspaper columnist Franklin P. Adams's term for people whose names were curiously appropriate to, or provided ironic comment on, their occupations.

Ay, las casualidades -dijo Quim respirando a pleno pulmón, como el titán de la calle Revillagigedo-, valen verga las casualidades. A la hora de la verdad todo esta escrito. A eso los pinches griegos lo llamaban destino

My friend (if I may still call him that) believed in humanity, and so he also believed in order, in the order of painting and the order of words, since words are what we paint with. He believed in redemption. Deep down he may even have believed in progress. Coincidence, on the other hand, is total freedom, our natural destiny. Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are.

Ambos habíamos nacido más o menos por las mismas fechas. Ambos habíamos rajado de nuestras respectivas Repúblicas, cuando pasó lo que pasó.