unforeseen occurrences Quotes

Coincidence obeys no laws and if it does we don't know what they are. Coincidence, if you'll permit me the simile, is like the manifestation of God at every moment on our planet. A senseless God making senseless gestures at his senseless creatures. In that hurricane, in that osseous implosion, we find communion.

Miracles can happen, even to those who are small, flammable, and dressed all in black.

Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.

Sometimes incredible and totally incomprehensible things happen.

Miracles are like pimples, because once you start looking for them you find more than you ever dreamed you'd see.

Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.

She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You couldn’t imagine it, and then it happened and you couldn’t really imagine it hadn’t.

Who lets slip fortune, her shall never find: Occasion once past by, is bald behind.