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Quotes About Coincidence

There's no reason. Mazel, Maurice. Only mazel." (p. 343)
~ Rebecca Goldstein
The best we can do is live our highest right, gracefully as we can, and let the Principle of Coincidence take it from there.    Seven
~ Richard Bach
Chance is just a word expressing ignorance
~ Richard Dawkins
One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'.
~ Richard Dawkins
possibility is far more frightening that impossibility ... If we do, in fact, have to deal with a force beyond ourselves that involves itself in our lives, then we may have to move into action on those previously impossible dreams ... we discount answered prayers ... call it coincidence ... call it luck ... call it anything but what it is -- the hand of God ... activated ... when we commit to our own soul
~ Julia Cameron
One way of legitimising coincidences, of course, is to call them ironies. That
~ Julian Barnes
If I asked you "What is life?", you would probably reply, in so many words, that it is all just a coincidence
~ Julian Barnes
And yet sometimes I wonder if the wittiest, most resonant irony isn't just a well-brushed, well-educated coincidence
~ Julian Barnes
Of course, every story always begins with such a coincidence.
~ K?ji Suzuki
Then again, Paul had once told her that there was no such thing as coincidence. "The Law of Truly Large Numbers provides that given a large enough sample size, any outrageous thing can happen.
~ Karin Slaughter
It's no coincidence that the women who spray perfume all over themselves are always the ones with an orange tan too. I put it down to the fact that all the CFC gases they pump out burn up the ozone above their heads, so the sun tans them the most. Obvious, innit.
~ Karl Pilkington
A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen
~ Kate Atkinson
That power Which erring men call Chance.
~ John Milton
A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.
~ Mark Twain
Chances rule men and not men chances.
~ Herodotus
What men call accident is God's own part.
~ Philip James Bailey
Every single moment is a coincidence.
~ Douglas Coupland
My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.
~ Victor Cruz
Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.
~ Stephen Richards
It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.
~ Don Roff
So much of life, it seems, is determined by pure randomness.
~ Sidney Poitier
We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.
~ David Foenkinos
El valor de una casualidad es igual a su tasa de improbabilidad.
~ David Foenkinos
Miracles are merely events that happen just when they are needed.
~ David Gemmell