#coincidence

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

— Harlan Coben

#fury #happen #life #novels #real

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

Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'. ↗

— Paul Graham

#coincidence #dressing #good #good ideas #ideas

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

#books #coincidence #fact #fantastic #feed

The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights. ↗

— Frank Miller

#coincidence #comics #crime #dc #did

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

— William Temple

#happen #i #pray

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committing a god-of-the-gaps fallacy (the fallacy of using God as a stop-gap for ignorance). Yet without some restriction on the use of chance, scientists are in danger of committing a logically equivalent fallacy-one we may call the “chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance. ↗

— William A. Dembski

#chance #coincidence #darwinism #evolution #god-of-the-gaps

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

Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#existence #inspiration #opportunities #opportunity #synchronicity

Every single moment is a coincidence. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#every #moment #single #single moment