Coincidence Quotes - Page 5

• Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open, while storyboards remain the instruments of cowards who do not trust in their own imagination and who are slaves of a matrix If you get used to planning your shots based solely on aesthetics, you are never that far from kitsch.

  Werner Herzog

  Imagination, Mind, Coward

  "Herzog on Herzog". Book by Werner Herzog, 2002.

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• Well, look who I ran into," crowed Coincidence. "Please," flirted Fate, "this was meant to be.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Fate, Looks, Were Meant To Be

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

  Harlan Coben

  Real, Novel, Fury

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• A shrewd person would one day start a religion based on coincidence, if he hasn't already, and make a million.

  Don DeLillo

  One Day, Persons, Ifs

  Don DeLillo (1991). “Libra”, p.73, Penguin

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• Coincidences are God's way of getting our attention.

  Frederick Buechner

  Attention, Way

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• Auspicious coincidence is the right thing happening at the right time.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Right Time, Happenings, Right Thing

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you--a state of conscious alertness.

  James Redfield

  Prayer, Moving, Thinking

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• I'm not responsible for my photographs. Photography is not documentary, but intuition, a poetic experience. It's drowning yourself, dissolving yourself, and then sniff, sniff, sniff - being sensitive to coincidence. You can't go looking for it; you can't want it, or you won't get it. First you must lose your self. Then it happens.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Self, Intuition

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

  Alexander Chee

  Long, People, Novel

  "Go Forth (Vol. 41)". Interview with Kristen Evans, logger.believermag.com. February 26, 2016.

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• If you do something once, people will call it an accident. If you do it twice, they call it a coincidence. But do it a third time and you've just proven a natural law!

  Grace Hopper

  Workout, Law, People

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• Coincidences mean you're on the right path.

  Simon Van Booy

  Mean, Destiny, Coincidence In Life

  Simon van Booy (2014). “The Secret Lives of People in Love: Love Begins in Winter”, p.51, Oneworld Publications

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• Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Fate, Past, Destiny

  Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3115, Delphi Classics

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• Don’t dismiss the synchronicity of what is happening right now finding its way to your life at just this moment. There are no coincidences in the universe, only convergences of Will, Intent, and Experience.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Positive, Law Of Attraction, Way

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Feb 27, 2017

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• Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.

  Vivian Vande Velde

  Writing, Character, Numbers

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• 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.

  Giordano Bruno

  Foundation, Compass, Ends

  Dorothea Waley Singer, Giordano Bruno (1968). “Giordano Bruno; his life and thought: With annotated translation of his work, On the infinite universe and worlds”, Greenwood Pub Group

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• A child can go only so far in life without potty training. It is not mere coincidence that six of the last seven presidents were potty trained, not to mention nearly half of the nation's state legislators.

  Dave Barry

  Children, Political, Training

  Dave Barry (1984). “Babies and Other Hazards of Sex: How to Make a Tiny Person in Only 9 Months, with Tools You Probably Have Around the Home”, p.75, Rodale

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• Who was it said that coincidence was just God’s way of remaining anonymous?

  Donna Tartt

  Way, Said

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• I always interpret coincidences as little clues to our destiny

  Ann Brashares

  Destiny, Littles, Clue

  Ann Brashares (2012). “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Complete Collection”, p.207, Delacorte Press

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• Coincidence is a spiritual pun.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Definitions, Pun

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• I am perfectly convinced that I have both seen, and heard in a manner which should make unbelief impossible, things called spiritual which cannot be taken by a rational being to be capable of explanation by imposture, coincidence, or mistake.

  Augustus De Morgan

  Spiritual, Mistake, Taken

  Augustus De Morgan (1863). “From Matter to Spirit: The Result of Ten Years'experience in Spirit Manifestations. Intended as a Guide to Enquirers”, London, Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green

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• 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.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Four, Months

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• Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

  Sylvia Plath

  Self Questioning, Hurtful, Together

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.555, Anchor

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• Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Fate, Desire, Puppets

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.420, Penguin

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• Coincidences happen, but I've come to believe they are actually quite rare. Something is at work, okay? Somewhere in the universe (or behind it), a great machine is ticking and turning its fabulous gears.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Gears, Machines

  Stephen King (2016). “11/22/63: A Novel”, p.348, Simon and Schuster

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

  Paulo Coelho

  World, Said, Has Beens

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

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