#coincide

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#humor #insightful #humor

When I pray, coincidences happen, and when I don't, they don't. ↗

— William Temple

#happen #i #pray

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. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#coincidence #got #hand #him #his

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

— Harlan Coben

#fury #happen #life #novels #real

The best compliment to a child or a friend is the feeling you give him that he has been set free to make his own inquiries, to come to conclusions that are right for him, whether or not they coincide with your own. ↗

— Alistair Cooke

#best #child #coincide #come #compliment

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. ↗

— Roger Wicker

#attacked #been #coincidence #country #factors

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#effectiveness #fifteen #generation #lasts #only

Is it a coincidence that in 1998, Barack Obama talks about a majority coalition of welfare recipients and in 2012 we got a record number of Americans on food stamps while he's president? I don't think it's a coincidence. ↗

— Rush Limbaugh

#barack #barack obama #coalition #coincidence #food

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide. ↗

— Russell Lynes

#another #coincide #lady #man

So, if falling crime rates coincide with the rise of violent video games and increasing violence on TV and at the cinema, should we conclude that media violence is causing the drop in crime rates? ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#cinema #coincide #conclude #crime #drop