Quotes About Coincidence

The harder you scrutinize randomness, Faraday declared, the more coincidence seems like a design.

The harder you scrutinize randomness, the more coincidence seems like design.

but what can I make of love when we are all born at a different time and place and only meet through a trick of centuries and a chance three steps to the left? you

Listen, is it true that Celine and Hemingway died on the same day?

What if he is the one who brought her to me?

Now, in some cosmic act of God or coincidence, the girl had returned to me. Who was I kidding? There is no coincidence. There is punishment, retribution. Or perhaps love and mercy and grace. Which was it?

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

Fate is just another word for people's choices coming to a head. Destiny, coincidence, whatever you name it. It inevitably lies in our hands.

Chance is a funny thing. A fat one and a slim one are the same thing.

coincidence they're there. They don't seem

The past happened because a hundred little random things had to fall exactly into place in exactly the right way, in exactly the proper sequence, and while it was easy to accept the good results, one could only rage at the bad ones.

Was it possible that they'd crossed without realizing it, each one rounding the corner of the aisle the other one had just vacated at exactly the same time?

Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.

all mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

La casualidad es la única dueña y señora del universo, ya lo dijo Einstein

La casualidad es la única dueña y señora del universo.

One way to embrace the unexpected is to be on the lookout for, and respect, coincidence. I do not necessarily believe in fate, but, for me, coincidental occurrence strengthens my belief that I'm on the right path.

Numbers were originally abstractions, invented just to quantify things, to count rocks or people or grapes or whatever. The fact that dust floating in the air & the price of stock options behave according to the same mathematical principles, the fact that everything in the universe apparently can be described or predicted with a mathematical equation-a radical idea when Pythagoras suggested it- is probably the most startling coincidence in the history of mankind.

he could manage. Ms. Silver happened to be walking by

All this is happening for a reason." Yeah, she thought, to annoy me.

Life was a mixture of coincidence and hopes that often ran out in the sand.

Sure, kid. Look, there's a very old saying in my family: 'Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is another wizard fucking with you.

One might be a coincidence." Hands on her hips, she turned back. "Put them together it's a pattern.

Two souls don't find each other by simple accident.