Top 100 Quotes About Coincidence
#1. It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.
Douglas Adams
#2. By an incredible coincidence, Gamow and Edward Condon, who had discovered simultaneously and independently the explanation of radioactivity (one in Russia, the other in this country), came to spend the the last ten years of their lives within a hundred yards of each other in Boulder.
Stanislaw Ulam
#3. It is significant that racism is part of colonialism throughout the world; and it is no coincidence. Racism sums up and symbolizes the fundamental relation which unites colonialist and colonized.
Albert Memmi
#4. There is no coincidence in God's Kingdom, all things are divinely arranged and He orders the footsteps of the righteous.
Jaachynma N.E. Agu
#5. How many events added up to a coincidence?
How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy?
Meg Rosoff
#6. You're my hero," he murmured.
She grinned up at him. "What a coincidence. You're _my_ hero.
Stephanie Bond
#7. It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.
Robert J. Sawyer
#9. 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
#10. Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
Emma Bull
#11. It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.
Katherine Dunn
#12. I soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to the same people who had told the stories earlier, they were bewildered by the coincidence between what I said and what they were thinking.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#13. and no, no, I didn't think it was a coincidence SS was short for sorority sister.
Nicole Williams
#14. There is enough mystery in the facts as we know them, enough of conspiracy, coincidence, loose ends, dead ends, multiple interpretations. There is no need [ ... ] to invent the grand and masterful scheme, the plot that reaches flawlessly in a dozen directions. - Agent Branch (58)
Don DeLillo
#15. You don't have to believe in coincidences because they happen every day. The trick is to be able to discern when something is more than coincidence.
Glenn Jones
#16. Sometimes I think it's recklessness but at other times the coincidence of it seems almost supernatural because here in the midst of success comes death
Crystal Evans
#17. A coincidence is a trend we have decided not to take seriously.
Philip Slater
#18. It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.
Bruce Hoffman
#19. I suddenly realized it's no coincidence the two middle letters of life are if. For every action we make, there is a reaction. The outcome often beyond our control, fragile and fraught with ruinous consequences. Like a soap bubble made real by a gentle breath only to be taken by it.
Michael Faudet
#20. Yes, you see, there's no such thing as coincidence. There are no accidents in life. Everything that happens is the result of a calculated move that leads us to where we are.
J.M. Darhower
#21. All marriages were a consequence of security, tradition, money and beauty. Love was a chance, a lucky coincidence. Its existence was an after-thought, for more serious matters cemented marriage.
Meghna Pant
#22. You know, I've never seen South Park, just by coincidence.
Kevin McDonald
#23. It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.
Ryan Holmes
#24. Synchronicity ... means a 'meaningful coincidence' of outer and inner events that are not themselves causally connected. The emphasis lies on the word 'meaningful'.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#25. It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon's two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. In certain respects, he would outdo them both.
Saul David
#26. Regardless of whether luck or coincidence is involved, desires directed in the right way have a tendency to manifest.
Stephen Richards
#29. The notion of coincidence is merely a special way of perceiving an effect in the absence of detailed information relating to the cause. Yet,
Vadim Zeland
#30. A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That's what I like about coincidence.
Vladimir Nabokov
#31. I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in providence.
Mark Batterson
#32. It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.
Paulo Coelho
#33. Not all coincidence has to be loaded with meaning. Sometimes, things simply recur because that's how it is in life, that's how the mood gets in. It's good to subtly overdo it too, as Nabokov does, as Sebald does. It's a good way to intensify that region of localized weather that we call a novel.
Teju Cole
#35. One of the advantages, one of the special things, about playing in Detroit or Montreal is guys like Gordie Howe walk in the room. I didn't know he was here tonight, it was kind of a coincidence to get that assist on a night that he's here.
Steve Yzerman
#36. Characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any apparent similarity to real persons is not intended by the author and is either a coincidence or
David Foster Wallace
#37. A common complaint about stories that include excessive coincidence is that the story is 'unrealistic.'
Jane Lindskold
#38. The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle.
Kresley Cole
#39. Coincidence is usually mentioned only when something good happens. Whenever it's something bad, it's easier to blame someone, something.
Kate Griffin
#40. The art of writing was independently born in these four regions and I do not think it a coincidence that the advent of the written word was nourished by river water.
Olivia Laing
#41. Your words have come true with a vengeance that I shd [should] be forestalled ... I never saw a more striking coincidence. If Wallace had my M.S. sketch written out in 1842 he could not have made a better short abstract! Even his terms now stand as Heads of my Chapters.
Charles Darwin
#42. I part-own a bookshop for some strange coincidence of reasons, and it is one of the best things I part-own in my life, or own in my life. I do not know, it just feels great.
Lily Cole
#43. Nay, you attract mayhem, chaos, and anarchy wherever your delicate feet tread. Around you there is no such thing as a coincidence."
"Why do you think it is always me, Director?" Eliza protested. "It could be Books. My father always told me to beware the quiet ones!
Philippa Ballantine
#45. What I'm saying is I've got two dead crime writers and another one who's damn lucky he's not dead. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but I'm not a big believer in coincidences.
Marilyn Rausch
#46. If you stare long enough at anything, you will start to find similarities. The word "coincidence" exists in order to stop people from seeing meaning where none exists.
Chuck Klosterman
#47. If I represent the pinnacle of family success for all the Jason Dessens, Jason2 represents the professional and creative apex. We're opposite poles of the same man, and I suppose it isn't a coincidence that Jason2 sought out my life from the infinite possibilities available. Though
Blake Crouch
#49. Whether he gets hit early or in the middle or late, he gets in his seven innings it seems like every time. There are also great defensive plays made behind him and it's not a coincidence. Guys are in the game. He works quick.
Paul Konerko
#50. Shall we call coincidence what God calls providence?
Beth Moore
#51. Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.
Carl Jung
#52. Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.
Lionel
#53. One event is an anomaly, two is a coincidence, and three a pattern.
William Alexander
#55. It's no coincidence that the word 'holiday' suggests a holy day, or that the longest book in the Torah concerns the Sabbath. If you wish to advance in any sphere, the best way is to take a retreat.
Pico Iyer
#56. Maybe, maybe it's just coincidence he's here. And if it's not a coincidence, then maybe I need to hear what Mr. Creepy has to say? I mean, I could be like, a demon or something. - Aurora
Candace Knoebel
#57. Maybe it was too much of a coincidence to be a purely coincidence.
Lisa Jewell
#58. 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
#59. There's no such thing as a coincidence in a prayer chapel.
Karen Barber
#60. This is the way you look at the poorest details of the world resurfaced, after you've been driving for a long time
you feel their singleness and precise location and the forlorn coincidence of you being there to see them.
Alice Munro
#61. Annoying mishaps always seem to cluster around times of spiritual fruitfulness. That's not exactly coincidence.
Chip Ingram
#62. A child gets vaccinated and soon after, autism symptoms emerge. The apparent cause-and-effect is understandable but erroneous - more a coincidence of the calendar and childhood developmental stages than anything else, as repeated and exhaustive studies have shown.
Jeffrey Kluger
#63. I like coincidences. Seems like when you have a coincidence it is a clue to how the world all fits together, even though things may look to be wide apart.
Marilyn Oser
#64. Newsreader: A huge asteroid could destroy Earth! And by coincidence, that's the subject of tonight's miniseries. Dogbert: In science, researchers proved that this simple device can keep idiots off your television screen. [TV remote control] Click.
Scott Adams
#65. Call it fate, destiny, call it luck you ended up with me
But some things are meant to be
Coincidence, circumstance
Or something bigger thats just out of our hands
But some things are meant to be
Sammy Kershaw
#66. This was indeed a merciful coincidence, was it not, that at the moment of Watt's losing sight of the ground floor, he lost interest in it also.
Samuel Beckett
#67. Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.
Tom Robbins
#68. There's a drive in a lost soul - in one that is searching for acceptance, companionship, belonging, whatever you want to call it. The slightest coincidence ignites a spark that one hopes will lead to something meaningful.
Doug Cooper
#70. Earth's suitability for human life was no coincidence, much less an effect of the anthropic principle, but rather was an outcome of the long-term interaction between the biosphere and the natural environment,
Liu Cixin
#71. Have you ever had something happen to you that there was simply no explanation for? That you can't chalk up to a coincidence, or an accident, or even fate?
Pittacus Lore
#72. And then Adam Wilde shows up at Carnegie Hall on the biggest night of my career, and it felt like more than a coincidence. It felt like a gift. From them. For my first recital ever, they gave me a cello. And for this one, they gave me you.
Gayle Forman
#73. How can it surprise any of you that loves could break the curse? You, whose very genetic makeup forces you to love so deeply that you can't even survive without your mate? It's no coincidence that the saying is 'love conquers all'. It's a tale as old as time.
Quinn Loftis
#74. There are no ifs and buts in life. If they exist in life, then we are living in coincidence.
Santosh Kalwar
#75. with this. It was all just a coincidence. She had
Luis Collar
#76. 85% of modern music doesn't have a damn thing to do with music. It has to do with looking good. Name me one woman on the top ten right now who isn't absolutely smoking hot. You think that's a coincidence?
Patrick Rothfuss
#77. Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.
Agatha Christie
#78. Mila, do you feel like searching for any particular in your life? And things happened not by coincidence, but rather, a call of destiny?
Cherry Seniel
#80. History is often the tale of small moments - chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence - that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly's wings that triggers a hurricane.
Scott Anderson
#81. Every now and then life sold you an illusion of design. A coincidence, a parallel, a sledgehammer symbol. The goods were always faulty. You forked over the cash only to discover they'd fallen apart by the time you got home. But life kept at it. Life couldn't help it. Life was a compulsive salesman.
Glen Duncan
#82. Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.
John Wyndham
#83. I just can't imagine that it's only a coincidence. I think they feel that it's kind of getting out of their control, and they're trying to tighten it back up.
Kevin Mattson
#84. Once was happenstance, twice might be coincidence, but thrice or more indicated the actions of your enemies.
Robert Jordan
#85. It's no coincidence that good words make us feel good and that hurtful or angry words make us feel bad. There is a 100 percent correlation between the words we choose and how we feel.
Sean Stephenson
#86. Too many modern painters set themselves satisfied with just a coincidence, the spot in its raw, meaningless form.
Pierre Alechinsky
#87. Sir, perhaps her name is no coincidence. I believe it's Ginger. She's a bit like that damned hurricane. Small, tenacious, and a shit load of a problem.
Bud Rudesill
#88. If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence.
George Carlin
#89. I have a manuscript that I'm almost done with, but I've been saying that forever. I'm on what I think will be the second-to-last chapter. It's a story about chance and coincidence.
Mary E. Pearson
#90. Sometimes a good idea comes to you when you are not looking for it. Through an improbable combination of coincidence, naivete and lucky mistakes ...
Kary Mullis
#91. It is no coincidence that some of America's most lethargic industries-steel, footwear, rubber, textiles-are also among the most heavily protected.
Thomas DiLorenzo
#92. Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.
Isaac Asimov
#93. Maybe 'coincidence' is another word for fate.
Amy Tintera
#94. People who do good work often think that whatever they're working on is no good. Others see what they've done and think it's wonderful, but the creator sees nothing but flaws. This pattern is no coincidence: worry made the work good.
Paul Graham
#96. You wonder if that really constitutes being 'a coincidence' but don't press her on the issue, instead sticking your hand down your pocket to pretend to look for something when really just scratching an itchy testicle.
Rudolf Kerkhoven
#97. For me, serendipity, coincidence and chance are more interesting than any preconceived construct of our human encounters.
Charles Traub
#98. Interestingly enough after diving to 235 feet in Saba, I visited the Virgin Islands. There, as a pure Karmic coincidence, I met the inventor of the snowboard, Steve Sanders, Mr. Burton's brother.
Frederick Lenz
#99. She was through the doors before I recognized her, which was pardonable, for Holly and libraries were not an easy association to make. I let curiosity guide me between the lions, debating on the way whether I should admit following her or pretend coincidence.
Truman Capote
#100. It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
Henry A. Wallace
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