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Quotes About Coincidence

The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.
~ Jeanette Winterson
There is so little life, and it is fraught with chance. We meet, we don't meet, we take the wrong turning, and still bump into each other. We conscientiously choose the 'right road' and it leads nowhere.
~ Jeanette Winterson
It's funny how things work out sometimes.
~ Anthony Horowitz
It's Thursday and it really feels like a Thursday. Sometimes things just work out.
~ Demetri Martin
When a writer is already stretching the bounds of reality by writing within a science fiction or fantasy setting, that writer must realize that excessive coincidence makes the fictional reality the writer is creating less 'real.'
~ Jane Lindskold
New Orleans is still the place where you find out that you have a doppelganger and feel lucky - but somehow unsurprised - to learn that his name is Mad Bottom.
~ Elizabeth McCracken
Chance determines our lives in important ways.
~ Gerhard Richter
it seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100 ft. away. She's alright, the baby's doing fine...ofcourse the soldier's a little pissed off...
~ Tom Waits
Better to have the right person at the wrong time than to never had met them at all.
~ Unknown
Just think, if I was born one day earlier I would have written this yesterday.
~ Unknown
Sign of the twin," Sticky said offhandedly. His eyes widened. "Wait a minute!" "That's right," said Reynie. "I think Mr. Benedict has a long lost brother.
~ Trenton Lee Stewart
Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.
~ Trevanian
Nothing in this world happens by chance.
~ Paulo Coelho
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence
~ Paulo Coelho
It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.
~ Paulo Coelho
Cuando una persona desea realmente algo, el universo entero conspira para que pueda ralizar su sueño.
~ Paulo Coelho
I knew it,' she says. 'I knew I had met you before. I knew it the first time I saw your photograph. It's as if we had to meet again at some point in this life. I talked to my friends about it, but they thought I was crazy, that thousands of people must say the same thing about thousands of other people every day. I thought they must be right, but life… life brought you to me. You came to find me, didn't you?
~ Paulo Coelho
When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call these phenomena 'signs', the sceptics 'coincidence', and psychologists 'concentrated focus', although I've yet to find out what term historians would use).
~ Paulo Coelho
People meet when they need to meet.
~ Paulo Coelho
When you want something,all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
~ Paulo Coelho
We were brought together by two stories that barely even shook hands with each other in the midst of everything that happened.
~ Unknown
The insane conspiracy theories that motivate people who commit antisemitic violence reflect a fear of real freedom: a fondness for tyrants, an aversion to ideas unlike their own, and most of all, a casting-off of responsibility for complicated problems. None of this is a coincidence.
~ Dara Horn
You would think that, by sheer chance, there would come a time when you daughter's two dances would be close together, ideally near the beginning. But the dance studio makes sure this never happens, using the same computer scheduling program that the cable-TV company uses to make sure that the technician, for whom you have been waiting eleven hours, rings your doorbell only when you have just commenced pooping.
~ Dave Barry
It's no coincidence that social justice warriors are frequently out of shape, poorly dressed, and have messy hair, along with their overall disheveled appearance. If some dress for success, they dress for failure. Now get out there and buy yourself something nice. Your future deserves it.
~ Dave Rubin