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Quotes About Coincidence

In a universe, on a continent, in a country, in a state, in a county, on a river, in a small yellow boat,' I said. 'That's what Mary used to say to explain the odds of us meeting. And you have to be born in roughly the same period. Those are the odds. And probably you need to speak the same language.'-- Cobb
~ Joseph Monninger
So it's just a coincidence that Firestar made his daughter's mate deputy," Thornclaw continued.
~ Erin Hunter
Osim toga, svet je mali. Ponekad se stvari sklope na najsla?i na?in. Drugi put se sklope na manje slatke na?ine, ili se ne sklope uopšte.
~ Erlend Loe
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.
~ Erma Bombeck
Instead, he picked up his bass guitar, and, in what seemed like an odd coincidence, he began to play a solo version of "One of These Days" while staring up at the stars projected on the dome over our heads. Then I noticed a practice set list taped to the floor in front of him, and saw that several of the songs listed there were tracks I knew from my father's old mixtapes.
~ Ernest Cline
Cats do not walk with people. We just sometimes happen to be going the same way.
~ Esther M. Friesner
Sometimes things happen for a reason...
~ Ethan Atwood
You are always in the right place at exactly the right time, and you always have been.
~ Ethan Hawke
We can sit around and go, okay, is there really a plan, does somebody really know what's happening, is it all planned out, because sometimes it just seems too remarkable to me the things that have happened to me.
~ Andie MacDowell
Coincidence is important, the convergence of different ideas.
~ Dries van Noten
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
~ Leslie Stephen
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
~ Leo Ornstein
A small, seemingly inconsequential event can determine a life.
~ Tim O'Brien
Okur kitap arar ama, kitab?n da okuru buldu?unu ben çok gördüm. Aç?klanabilir bir ?ey söylemiyorum belki, ama "rastlant?lar"?n ço?u, aç?klayamad???m?z için rastlant? görünmez mi?
~ Bilge Karasu
Ironically, John Wilkes Booth often rented this very room during the previous summer. In fact, as recently as three weeks ago, Booth lolled on the very bed in which Lincoln is now dying.
~ Bill O'Reilly
Two days later, a woman in Reading, Pennsylvania, also
~ Bill Pronzini
And I met Paul Simms while I was making 'It's Pat', and he later wound up casting me in 'NewsRadio.'
~ Dave Foley
It seems to me the nature of the world is all one thing or all the other. Either there is nothing but coincidence or there is nothing but established fare.
~ Gregory Maguire
If heaven ever wishes to grant me a boon, it will be a total effacing of the results of a mere chance which fixed my eye on a certain stray piece of shelf-paper.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
A determinação e o destino são irmãos, e ambos repousam no mesmo coração.
~ Halldór Kiljan Laxness
The Jews "desired" to emigrate, and he, Eichmann, was there to help them, because it so happened that at the same time the Nazi authorities had expressed a desire to see their Reich judenrein. The two desires coincided, and he, Eichmann, could "do justice to both parties.
~ Hannah Arendt
In my life's chain of events nothing was accidental. Everything happened according to an inner need.
~ Hannah Senesh
Pruning shears. It couldn't be a coincidence. He grabbed his cellular and called the Dragons' practice site. After a few minutes Brenda came on the line. "Hey," Brenda said. "Hey." They both fell silent. "I love a smooth-talking man," she said. "Uh-huh," Myron said. Brenda laughed. The sound was melodious, plucking at his heart.
~ Harlan Coben
It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.
~ Alva Noto