In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
Yesterday they called it coincidence. Today it's synchronicity. Tomorrow they'll call it skill.
There are no coincidences.
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.
All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.
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.
Coincidence is logical.
I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.
Whether I sound like Sammy or not is purely coincidence. You have got to hand it to him, he sings his ass off. There is no moss on that stone.
People are an asset, not a liability. The United States is the most immigrant-friendly nation in the world and the richest country in the world. This is not a coincidence. Those voices that would make us less immigrant-friendly would make us less successful, less prosperous and certainly less American.
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.
Why is Earth Day, today, also Lenin's birthday? Coincidence? Or does it signal the true intent of the national and worldwide environmental movement?
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.
I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.
There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.
People break down into two groups. When they experience something lucky, group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. Just a happy turn of chance.
Our … reduceth to a single origin and relateth to a single , and maketh contraries to coincide so that there is one primal foundation both of origin and of end. From this coincidence of contraries, we deduce that ultimately it is divinely true that contraries are within contraries; wherefore it is not difficult to compass the knowledge that each thing is within every other.
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines. '
In Jewish history there are no coincidences.
It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences.