Coincidence Quotes - Page 17

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

  John Irving

  Young, Novel, Forethought

  "John Irving's Last Night in Twisted River". Interview with Ramona Koval, www.abc.net.au. January 29, 2010.

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• 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.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Mistake, Lying, Profound

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History”, p.199, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Aunt, Thinking, House

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “Jeeves And The Tie That Binds”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.

  Wallace Stegner

  Thinking, Two, Lucky

  Wallace Stegner (2000). “Angle of Repose”, p.457, Penguin

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• There are no coincidences. And everything means something.

  Cate Tiernan

  Mean

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Blood Witch: Book Three”, p.38, Penguin

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• So it's a coincidence. Just like you said. Two rich parents with two rich kids at the same school. They're both killed in accidents. Why are you so interested?" "Because I don't like coincidence," Blunt replied. "In fact, I don't believe in coincidence. Where some people see coincidence, I see conspiracy. That's my job.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Jobs, Believe, School

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• First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.

  Alethea Kontis

  Firsts, Flukes, Tradition

  Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.240, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• You are meant to be here. There are no coincidences. It's all happening the way it was meant to be.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Way, Were Meant To Be, Happenings

  Anthony Horowitz (2012). “The Gatekeepers #1: Raven's Gate”, p.145, Scholastic Inc.

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• We may finally ask ourselves whether coincidence really does exist. Maybe everybody we run into is walking around near us with the undying hope of meeting us? To think of it, it's a fact that they often seem out of breath.

  David Foenkinos

  Running, Thinking, Doe

  David Foenkinos (2011). “Delicacy”, p.141, A&C Black

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• I have come to understand that life is composed of a series of coincidences. How we react to these - how we exercise what some refer to as free will - is everything; the choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determine who we are.

  John Perkins

  Fate, Exercise, Choices

  John Perkins (2016). “The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man”, p.30, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Character, Half, Intellect

  Edgar Allan Poe (2012). “Tales of Terror and Detection”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Behind every coincidence, every stroke of luck, and every miracle, there is inevitably a cold and calculating mind.

  Ryohgo Narita

  Miracle, Luck, Mind

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• 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

  Meaningful, Lying, Events

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• Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design.

  Aristotle

  Air, Design, Tragedy

  Aristotle (0101). “The Poetics of Aristotle”, p.18, Prabhat Prakashan

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• I don't think anyone can understand what's happening. Something like this is so rare. It's a mix of chance and coincidence. You wake up one day and you're suddenly a star.. Really weird. All of a sudden everyone knows who you are while you haven't changed one bit

  Robert Pattinson

  Stars, Thinking, One Day

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• 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

  Country, Song, Fate

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• The ambivalence of writing is such that it can be considered both an act and an interpretive process that follows after an act with which it cannot coincide. As such, it both affirms and denies its own nature.

  Paul de Man

  Nature, Writing, Deny

  Paul de Man (2013). “Blindness and Insight: Essays in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Criticism”, p.152, Routledge

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• Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Block, Illustration, Class

  Tales of Mystery and Imagination The Murders in the Rue Morgue (p. 208)

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• It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results.

  Plutarch

  Time, Numbers, Long

  Plutarch (2015). “Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans: Top Biography”, p.749, 谷月社

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• It's no coincidence that trust in government is at an all-time low now that the size of government is at an all-time high.

  Paul Ryan

  Government, Political, All Time Low

  "Paul Ryan State Of The Union Response: Speech Addresses Spending, Health Care & More", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2011.

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• Strings of coincidence can strengthen us in the determination to follow our deepest intuitions even when they run counter to conventional wisdom and logic and cannot be subjected to rational explanation.

  Robert Moss

  Running, Determination, Words Of Wisdom

  Robert Moss (2010). “The Three "Only" Things: Tapping the Power of Dreams, Coincidence, and Imagination”, p.122, New World Library

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• For when the heart insists on its destiny, resisting the general blandishment, then the agony is great; so too the danger. Forces, however, will have been set in motion beyond the reckoning of the senses. Sequences of events from the corners of the world will draw gradually together, and miracles of coincidence bring the inevitable to pass.

  Joseph Campbell

  Heart, Destiny, Agony

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.196, New World Library

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• 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.

  Denise Linn

  Destiny, Whispering, Moments

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• 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

  Strange, Reason, Feels

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dreams ought to produce no conviction whatever on philosophical minds. If we consider how many dreams are dreamt every night, and how many events occur every day, we shall no longer wonder at those accidental coincidences which ignorance mistakes for verifications.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Dream, Mistake, Philosophical

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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