One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.
Just think of all the billions of coincidences that don't happen.
A person improvising is sometimes very fortunate that just at that second things coincide.
Have you ever noticed that when you pray, coincidences happen? And when you don't, they don't.
It is no coincidence that the growth of modern tyrants has in every case been heralded by the growth of prejudice.
Consciousness itself is an infinite regress. This explains coincidences.
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.
Coincidences are the scars of fate.
I don't know whether our watching the play in these times was a coincidence or divine intervention but time and again, we were introspecting.
In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
Nothing in my life is a coincidence.
What I really believe is that there are no coincidences anymore.
I find it interesting that it was back in the 1970s that the swine flu broke out under another, then under another Democrat president, Jimmy Carter. I'm not blaming this on President Obama, I just think it's an interesting coincidence.
It's one of these wonderful economic coincidences.
There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.
There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.
Coincidence. That's an explanation used by fools and liars.
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.
Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon Valley today. This is not a coincidence.