Quotes About Coincidence

Life had taught him to be profoundly suspicious of coincidence, and it had similarly taught him to view any seemingly random conjunction of events or persons as coincidence and thus be suspicious of that, as well.

Who was it that said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

You sound like my dad." "Well—let's put it another way. Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?" "Now you really sound like my dad." "Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

The nail where your fate is liable to catch and snag." "You sound like my dad." "Well—let's put it another way. Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

It does all swing around strangely sometimes, doesn't it.

Penso che in questo caso dovremmo chiamarla ironia della sorte, più che divina provvidenza. Sì, ma perché vuoi darle un nome? E se fossero la stessa cosa?

Well—let's put it another way. Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?

Who was it said that coincidence was just God's way of remaining anonymous?" "Now you really sound like my dad." "Who's to say that gamblers don't really understand it better than anyone else? Isn't everything worthwhile a gamble? Can't good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. -Albert Einstein

In the real, everyday world, accident, coincidence and fate often play a major role in determining "how things work out" in a person's life. Bad things happen to good people for no reason, and as today's politics all too often proves, the opposite is equally true.

Philip Youngman, curator of mammals at the National Museum of Canada, spoke for many. "It is just too much to buy the story that sheer coincidence caused two grizzly bears only twenty miles apart to attack two similar camping parties at almost the same time

Coincidence is a messenger sent by truth.

Coincidence is a messenger sent by the truth." [Dr. Maurice Blanche]

There are no coincidences. If something happens and we don't understand the reason, that doesn't mean there is no reason. It means that the reason will later be revealed, likely not in this life.

Hay casualidades que es preciso forzar

Because I know that everything we have is balanced on such a delicate web of incidence and coincidence.

Owen Meany believed that "coincidence" was a stupid, shallow refuge sought by stupid, shallow people who were unable to accept the fact that their lives were shaped by a terrifying and awesome design – more powerful and unstoppable than the Yankee Flyer. (a train)

He was too young to know that, in any novel with a reasonable amount of forethought, there were no coincidences.

It was a deus-ex-machina world!

foreshadowing is the storytelling companion of fate.

Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge.

It made him furious when I suggested that anything was an "accident"—especially anything that had happened to him; on the subject of predestination, Owen Meany would accuse Calvin of bad faith. There were no accidents; there was a reason for that baseball—just as there was a reason for Owen being small, and a reason for his voice.

How could Owen Meany have known what he "knew"? It's no answer, of course, to believe in accidents, or in coincidences; but is God really a better answer? If God had a hand in what Owen "knew," what a horrible question that poses! For how could God have let that happen to Owen Meany? Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean—make sure they know what they mean!