Mere Coincidence Quotes

#1. It is no mere coincidence that there is both an historic and a present relationship between community (people assisting each other) and a poverty of power due to financial recession.

Bill Mollison

#2. IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.

Carl Clinton Van Doren

#3. The probability of a certain set of circumstances coming together in a meaningful (or tragic) way is so low that it simply cannot be considered mere coincidence.

V.C. King

#4. It's no mere coincidence that over the last century the top earners' share of the nation's total income peaked in 1928 and 2007 - the two years just preceding the biggest downturns.

Robert B. Reich

#5. As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers
a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through.

Stephen King

#6. After people pray and receive as they want,
they may easily perceive it as the fulfillment.
Another may see that as a mere coincidence.
As for me, universe keeps doing something
that causes some of all creation will start praying for it.

Toba Beta

#7. A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.

Dave Barry

#8. It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.

H.L. Mencken

#9. It is a matter of mere coincidence that there is often a real individual who corresponds with a celebrity, signifies them.

Johnny Rich

#10. It was not by mere coincidence that sex so disturbed us for thousands of years: repressive religious dictates and social taboos grew out of aspects of our nature that cannot now just be wished away.

Alain De Botton

#11. When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.

Robert B. Weide

#12. It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

James Mattis

#13. In the designs of Providence, there are no mere coincidences.

Pope John Paul II

#14. Everything I write is for her; none of it is ever good enough.

Kristopher Jansma

#15. I hate you," I muttered. "Ach, now, don't be like that. Ghosts are drawn to negative emotions, you see.

Brandon Sanderson

#16. Be thankful for a breath of fresh air to be alive and well. Allow love and happiness to penetrate throughout your mind and soul. Take time to relax and live in the moment, the now, the present. Enjoy today.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

#17. It is time that we squarely face the fact that institutional schoolteaching is destructive to children.

John Taylor Gatto

#18. Malnutrition can be as common in poverty as in wealth, one for the lack of food, the other for the lack of knowledge of food.

T.K. Naliaka

#19. It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. The most brilliant idea, with no execution, is worth $20. The most brilliant idea takes great execution to be worth $20,000,000.

Derek Sivers

#21. Digital innovation is a dynamic storybook that has intricate chapters, with a serendipitous cover, which can be flipped over to the next level, but it is a book that never ends.

Pearl Zhu