Armistead Maupin Quotes

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

It’s amazing how many coincidences occur when one begins to pray.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

See what you have to ask yourself is what kind of person are you? Are you the kind that sees signs, sees miracles? Or do you believe that people just get lucky?

i think of all the thousands of billions of steps and missteps and chances and coincidences that have brought me here. Brought you here, and it feels like the biggest miracle in the world.

Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never even have imagined. The coincidences or little miracles that happen every day of your life are hints that the universe has much bigger plans for you than you ever dreamed of for yourself.

I don't believe in coincidences.

Now. Maybe you think it is arrogant or self centered, or ridiculous for me to believe that God bothered to wiggle a cheap bolt out of my new used car because he or she needed to keep me away for a few days until just the moment when my old friend most needed me to help her mother move into whatever comes next. Maybe nothing conscious helped to stall me so that I would be there when I could be most useful. Or maybe it did. I’ll never know for sure. And anyway, it doesn’t really matter.

Coincidences are not accidents but signals from the universe which can guide us toward our true destiny.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when.

We are continually shaped by the forces of coincidence.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Much of what we do in life has a huge component of luck.

Is it possible that there are no coincidences?

I don't believe in coincidence.

Coincidence is a recognized element in 'real life.' All of us have anecdotes about those times when, by the merest coincidence, we avoided some disaster or stumbled onto some wonderful experience.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

Open your mouth and shut your eyes and see what Zeus will send you.

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.