Quotes About Coincidence

Forced teaming is an effective way to establish premature trust because a we're-in-the-same-boat attitude is hard to rebuff without feeling rude. Sharing a predicament, like being stuck in a stalled elevator or arriving simultaneously at a just-closed store will understandably move people around social boundaries. But forced teaming is not about coincidence; it is intentional and directed, and it is one of the most sophisticated manipulations.

And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

entonces Adam Wilde aparece en Carnegie Hall en la noche más grande de mi carrera, y se sintió como más que una coincidencia. Se sintió como un regalo. De ellos. Para mi primer recital, me dieron un violonchelo. Y para éste, me dieron tu presencia. -Mia

They say that things happen for a reason, but I don't know that I buy that

She believes in saints. I believe in accidents. I think we basically believe in the same thing.

Ella cree en los santos. Yo creo en los accidentes. Pienso que básicamente creemos en la misma cosa.

La verdad y su opuesto son dos caras de una misma moneda.

There's only one thing I know about life. I know some things happen by chance, And some things happen because we make them happen.

You and Rogan aren't done." Grandma pointed her fork at me. "Just watch. Fate will throw you two together. One day you'll just run right into him and boom! True love." "Well, if Fate ever does throw us together, I'll be sure to punch her in the face.

A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.

If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number of people in this story would have been entirely different. Such is the vast play of chance in human lives.

People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

three ships lost in the same sector in the same year can't be accident, and

It's either some sort of a kismet or something that I've been offered a film like 'Zero Dark Thirty,' which I would have lined up to be the first one to watch that movie, had I not shot it.

The long arm of coincidence.

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

It turns out I share a birthday with Jose Mourinho. He is exactly 10 years older than me.

In war, important events result from trivial causes.

The inseparability of junk science from junk thought is evinced by the telltale marks of endemic illogic coupled, in many instances, with deliberate manipulativeness. The first and most fundamental warning sign is an inability to distinguish between coincidence and causation--a basic requirement for scientific literacy.

They were simply two human beings caught up in ironic serendipity.

I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.

You know, I've never seen South Park, just by coincidence.

I don't believe in coincidence or fateBut I know one thing for sureYour face was meant to beBurned into the deepest reachesOf my blackest memories.