Amy Tan Quotes

Is anything accidental?

I have never believed that things happen by themselves.

I don't believe in coincidences.

NOTHING happens by coincidence.

I would like to think there is a reason and a choice behind everything.

If it had been what was supposed to happen, it would have happened.

I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.

Events are not a matter of chance.

Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

Man blindly works the will of fate.

Free will is to mind, what chance is to matter

Does our hand show in this?

I totally believe in opportunities. I don't believe in accidents. I just don't.

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

Keep this in mind: there are no coincidences.

I always say there are no coincidences.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved.