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Quotes About Coincidence

Je planmässiger Menschen vorgehen, desto wirksamer trifft sie der Zufall.
~ Friedrich Durrenmatt
What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?" "It would take a miracle, obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence.
~ Brandon Sanderson
Cadsuane, do you believe that I could kill you? Right here, right now, without using a sword or the Power? Do you believe that if I simply willed it, the Pattern would bend around me and stop your heart? By . . . coincidence?
~ Brandon Sanderson
Coincidence", he finally said. "Statisticans looking for connections can always find odd coincidences and statistical anomalies, if they try hard enough.
~ Brandon Sanderson
More science happens through lucky accidents than you'd believe (...).
~ Brandon Sanderson
What would it take?" she asked. "For you to see a miracle instead of a coincidence?" "It would take a miracle, obviously," Silence said, picking up her knife. "Instead of just a coincidence.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I sat beside Charlie. Opposite us, in the Black Maria, was a red-haired boy of my own age, and a small man with a broken nose, a cauliflower ear, and a begrudging look. He was going up for kicking his wife. He was not unfriendly, and told me his name was Donohoe. I said that by a coincidence that was my mother's name. It was not her name, but civility costs nothing.
~ Brendan Behan
There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I've always been into 1939 and the New York World's Fair. And I lived on 39th Street and on the 39th floor. Once you pick a number that means something to you, then you notice it everywhere.
~ Andrew W.K.
Fate had a hand in it - luck had nothing to do with it.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
Right time, right place, right moment.
~ Truth Devour, Unrequited
The best things in life are the things you do by mistake.
~ Monika Zands
The human mind delights in finding pattern—so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it.
~ Stephen Jay Gould
Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.
~ Stephen Richards
My life has been a series of slightly happy accidents.
~ Vijay Krishna Acharya
Coincidences like that served as a reminder that, variations in pigment aside, humans were all part of the same species.
~ Michel Faber
The first is the Copernican principle, which simply states that there is nothing special about the Earth. So the Earth is just a piece of cosmic dust wandering aimlessly through the cosmos. It is just a coincidence that the forces of nature are "tuned" just right.
~ Michio Kaku
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
~ Milan Kundera
Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?
~ Milan Kundera
our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidences. co-incidence means that two events unexpectedly happen at the same time.
~ Milan Kundera
Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
Rastlant?lar?n, sadece rastlant?lar?n söyleyecek bir sözü vard?r bize. Gereklilikten doÄŸan, olmas?n? beklediÄŸimiz, günbegün yinelenen her ÅŸey dilsizdir. Sadece rastlant?lar bir ÅŸeyler söyler bize.
~ Milan Kundera
Co-incidencia significa que dos acontecimientos inesperados ocurren al mismo tiempo, que se encuentran
~ Milan Kundera
Só o acaso pode nos parecer uma mensagem. Aquilo que acontece por necessidade, aquilo que é esperado e se repete cotidianamente é coisa muda apenas.
~ Milan Kundera