Quotes About Coincidence

Well I'm not much of a singer. But it's been a really nice time to do film, television, theater and have it all happening at once. That wasn't planned but it just happens.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.

It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

Nothing in this world happens without a reason. That we are all exactly where we are supposed to be, and that the pieces of the puzzle have a tendency to come together when you least expect it.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

When things are meant to come together, they come together.

A fool and his money are lucky enough to get together in the first place.

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

Oh the ironies of life . . . They would be funny if they were not so very tragic.

The reluctance to accept coincidence lies at the heart of telepathy, spiritualism, ghosts and other manifestations of the supernatural. The mystical mentality insists that something caused a coincidence; something made things go bump in the night. Superstition

Non per vendetta, mai per stupore, tutt'al più per caso.

What did Ian Fleming say? Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action. And I don't believe in waiting for even that much evidence. It was past time to act.

Coincidence has been cancelled, honey," Susannah said. "What we're living in these days is more like the Charles Dickens version of reality.

Americans overthrew governments only when economic interests coincided with ideological ones.

Accident in history is rife; unintended consequences and perverse outcomes are the rule.

serendipitous fruit

even the blind-eyed biscuit thrower occasionally hits the target.

You can see the fingerprints of the adjacent possible in one of the most remarkable patterns in all of intellectual history, what scholars now call "the multiple": A brilliant idea occurs to a scientist or inventor somewhere in the world, and he goes public with his remarkable finding, only to discover that three other minds had independently come up with the same idea in the past year.

People are surprised to learn that if 23 people are in a room, the chances that two will share a birthday are better than even. With 57 in the room, the odds rise to 99 percent. Though it's unlikely that anyone in the room will share my birthday, we're not looking for matches with me, or with anyone else singled out a priori. We're counting matches post hoc, and there are 366 ways for a match to occur.

Love makes use of the worst traps. The least noble. The rarest. It exploits coincidence.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Happiness is always a coincidence.