Best 216 quotes in «coincidence quotes» category

If your reading life and your friendships overlap, that's just a nice coincidence - a case where the conversation you're having with books and the conversation you're having with actual human beings happen to dovetail.

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.

I love surprises and coincidences. I love them even more when I don't pass them off as luck, but rather recognize them as a sign that my life's course is right on track.

In every moment, the Universe is whispering to you. You're constantly surrounded by signs, coincidences, and synchronicities , all aimed at propelling you in the direction of your destiny.

In Jewish history there are no coincidences.

In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.

In the existence of our lives, there is a single coincidence that brings us together and for a moment, our hearts beat as one.

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.

I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.

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

It could be coincidence. It's an extraordinarily short turnaround it's impossible to say at this point.

I see a lot of similarities and coincidences in life, in general.

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.

Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence.

I testify that the tender mercies of the Lord are real and that they do not occur randomly or merely by coincidence. Often, the Lord's timing of His tender mercies helps us to both discern and acknowledge them.

It has been said that there is no such thing as coincidence in this world.

It is a happy coincidence between what my constituents believe and my interests.

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

It is no coincidence that one cardinal rule in brainwashing is to remove from the victim all photographs of himself and people he has known.

It is naturally only a coincidence that all too often, American foreign-policy objectives dovetail nicely with the economic objectives of multinational corporations.

It is no coincidence that our country has not been attacked since 9-11. Our initiatives to protect the homeland and aggressively take the fight to the terrorists have been factors in that success.

It is no coincidence that Jesus talks endlessly about love. Free love. Unconditional love.

It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.

It may be coincidence that the decline of newspapers has corresponded with the rise of social media. Or maybe not.

It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

It's no coincidence that all the greatest rappers - whoever you put in your top five - I guarantee you they a great storyteller.

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.

It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.

It's not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It's not an accident. That's a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

It's not coincidence that these attacks come at the exact same moment, and all together at the same time as WikiLeaks releases documents exposing the massive international corruption of the Hillary Clinton machine.

It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences.

Magic is the deliberate manipulation of coincidence.

Its very seldom you get paid for doing what you love and telling the truth at the same time. It seems they dont often coincide.

Magnus was sure that the llama stampede he witnessed was a coincidence. The llamas could not be judging him.

I've been a young man. Boobs are near the center of the universe, until you turn twenty-five or so. Which is also when young men's auto insurance rates go down. This is not a coincidence.

Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.

My career has been full of remarkable coincidences that have nothing to do with me.

Meaning lies in the magic of the coincidence that you should come across work at just the right time.

My liveliest interest is not so much in things, as in relations of things. I have spent much time thinking about the alleged pseudo-relations that are called coincidences. What if some of them should not be coincidences?

My meeting you was no coincidence. It's more than that!

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.

My favourite people, biggest inspirations and closest friends are all women. Not a coincidence.

Moreover, joint occurrences tend to be better recalled than instances when the effect does not occur. The proneness to remember confirming instances, but to overlook disconfirming ones, further serves to convert, in thought, coincidences into causalities.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

One of the things I learned is that you've got to deal with the underlying social problems if you want to have an impact on crime - that it's not a coincidence that you see the greatest amount of violent crime where you see the greatest amount of social dysfunction.

People took what they wanted, they clutched at coincidences, the few there were, and made a life from them. . . . Choices are made in brief seconds and paid for in the time that remains.