Quotes About Coincidence

This country seems able to do more by accident than any other country can do on purpose.—Employee at Bechtel-McCone B-29 modification plant, Birmingham, Alabama, 1943

He was the brother of the one that [I'd photographed]. I was just walking in the mall, ran into him, didn't know him from Adam—how many are the chances of that happening? Astronomical." When I read this, I stared at it. Was this a slip of the tongue by a serial killer who severed heads, who'd admitted being in Miami when the Walsh child was reported lost?

Evet," dedi profesör, "san?r?m öyle. Ya da sadece bir tesadüf. Böyle konularda hiçbir zaman tamamen emin olunamaz, biliyorsunuz. Tesadüf profesörü öldürdü.

for in eating of the forbidden fruit our first parents committed an act of theft. Is it not then something more than a coincidence that we find a "thief" (yea, two thieves) connected with the second Tree also?

Después resulta fácil continuar, porque si en la realidad hay muchas cosas que suceden por azar, en la ficción casi todo discurre según reglas lógicas.

Hay cosas que ocurren solas, concluye. Tal vez porque alguna regla oculta determina que deben ocurrir. Y tres veces son demasiadas para considerarse al margen.

El azar era una explicación que sólo tranquilizaba a los idiotas.

Projecting planning as coincidence requires great skills or a scorpion!

I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

I really doubt it's a stroke of luck that she's turned up in your life again.

Bad luck always comes in threes.

I never even knew I would end up becoming an actor. It was coincidental for me. Once I did it, I realised it's what I really want to do.

If I use my credit card... and they go, 'Oh my gosh, there's Lisa Frank who makes the stickers!' I go, 'Isn't that the craziest thing, that I have the same name?'

discoveries happened because they needed to happen. He

You come as opportunely as cheese on macaroni.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

I just like the word 'serendipity.'

Character and fate are two words for the same thing.

'Jurassic Park' isn't about the bad luck of three people who keep getting thrown into the same situation.

One October day in 1976, a Cuban airliner exploded over the Caribbean and crashed, killing all 73 people aboard. There should have been 74. I had a ticket on that flight, but changed my reservation at the last moment and flew to Havana on an earlier plane.

Wouldn't it be great if we just ended up tied? I think it would be beautiful.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.

I read somewhere that there are no accidents, just ideas trying to find us.

But I knew I was there for a reason. There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you've been too dumb to take, doors you've been too blind to step through.