Coincidence Quotes

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Ian Fleming)
Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. View quote
Albert Einstein
The worst possible turn can not be programmed. It is caused by coincidence. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence. View quote
Erma Bombeck
Happiness is always a coincidence. View quote
Jose Bergamin
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. View quote
Roger Wicker
By the laws of statistics we could probably approximate just how unlikely it is that it would happen. But people forget-especially those who ought to know better, such as yourself-that while the laws of statistics tell you how unlikely a particular coincidence is, they state just as firmly that coincidences do happen. View quote
Robert A. Heinlein
Harry Dresden: 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. View quote
Jim Butcher
The human mind delights in finding pattern-so much so that we often mistake coincidence or forced analogy for profound meaning. No other habit of thought lies so deeply within the soul of a small creature trying to make sense of a complex world not constructed for it. View quote
Stephen Jay Gould
Third, consider the insistency of an idea. The insistency of a past idea with reference to the present is a quantity which is less, the further back that past idea is, and rises to infinity as the past idea is brought up into coincidence with the present. (Charles Sanders Peirce)
There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence. View quote
Alan Moore
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. View quote
Stanislaw Ulam
This play John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln holds the season's record, thus far, with a run of four evening performances and one matinee. By an odd coincidence, it ran just five performances too many. View quote
Dorothy Parker
It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on Earth has ever produced the expression "As pretty as an airport." View quote
Douglas Adams
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. View quote
Bill Mollison
Although my view is a world-wide one and my area of observation is Europe, the nation closest to my heart is, understandably, my homeland. And it is a fortunate coincidence, fortunate in terms of the explanation of the world, that it is this country which is the clearest example of the playground of destructive development in the whole world. View quote
Pentti Linkola
I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it. View quote
Jonathan Coe
The Valkyrie did not believe in coincidence, only fate. And sometimes fate didn't even bother being subtle. (Kresley Cole)
And after awhile of this my brain and my body and every single inch of me that was alive was flooded with the feeling that I was starving, starving for Edmond. And what a coincidence, that was the feeling I loved best in the world. View quote
Meg Rosoff
Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence. View quote
Mark Millar
My meeting you was no coincidence. It's more than that! View quote
Rumiko Takahashi
It's funny - when you look at the real A-listers nowadays, look at how many live in and around Hollywood. Most of them live on a ranch in Utah. It's no coincidence these guys get in and get out. View quote
Darren Boyd