68 Random Chance Quotes
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Famous Random Chance Quotes
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life. — Gary Gygax
So much of life, it seems to me, is determined by pure randomness. — Sidney Poitier
Chance is the providence of adventurers. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Of course it's all luck. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. — Aristotle
Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. — W. Somerset Maugham
Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible. — Ben Casnocha
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge. — Baruch Spinoza
Human destiny is bound to remain a gamble, because at some unpredictable time and in some unforeseeable manner nature will strike back. — Rene Dubos
In the abstract, life is a mixture of chance and choice. Chance can be thought of as the cards you are dealt in life. Choice is how you play them. — Edward O. Thorp
There's luck in odd numbers. — Samuel Lover
All good ideas arrive by chance. — Max Ernst
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. — Tacitus
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. — Robert Coveyou
Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. — Hans Jonas
Short Random Chance Quotes
- We make choices but are constantly foiled by happenstance. — Penelope Lively
- Chance favors the prepared mind. — Louis Pasteur
- Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — Donald Knuth
- Being alive is just happenstance, and not one more day of it is guaranteed. — Oliver Burkeman
- Every chance taken is another chance to win. — Unknown
- Your luck goes up and down like swings and roundabouts — James Hunt
- Time to toss the dice — Robert Jordan
Random Events Quotes
Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere. — Oswald Chambers
When awareness expands, events that seem random actually aren't. A larger purpose is trying to unfold through you. When you become aware of that purpose- which is unique for each person- you become like an architect who has been handed the blueprint. — Deepak Chopra
If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor. — Ralph Marston
Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one. — Leonard Mlodinow
When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose. — Deepak Chopra
Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions. — Tony Jeary
Existence is random. Has no pattern save what we imagine after staring at it for too long. No meaning save what we choose to impose. — Alan Moore
The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time. — Henri Nouwen
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is. — Nathaniel Philbrick
The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action. — Daniel Taylor
People Writing About Random Chance
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 Gary Gygax |
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 Sidney Poitier |
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 Napoleon Bonaparte |
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 Henri Cartier-Bresson |
112 | 2978 |
 Aristotle |
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 W. Somerset Maugham |
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More Random Chance Quotes
The normal curve is a distribution most appropriate to chance and random activity. Education is a purposeful activity and we seek to have students learn what we would teach. Therefore, if we are effective, the distribution of grades will be anything but a normal curve. In fact, a normal curve is evidence of our failure to teach. — Benjamin Bloom
Life cannot have had a random beginning. ... The trouble is that there are about two thousand enzymes, and the chance of obtaining them all in a random trial is only one part in 10 to the 40,000 power, an outrageously small probability that could not be faced even if the whole universe consisted of organic soup. — Fred Hoyle
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures. — Eric Chaisson
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark. — Bryce Courtenay
There's a Grand Designer behind everything. Your life is not a result of random chance, fate, or luck. There is a master plan. History is His story. God is pulling the strings. — Rick Warren
I used to be an atheist, until I realized I had nothing to shout during blowjobs. Oh Random Chance! Oh Random Chance! just doesn't cut it…. — Robert Anton Wilson
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. — John Polkinghorne
People will say, "You're never going to convince me that something as complicated as an eye could come about by sheer chance." And the answer is that natural selection is the very opposite of sheer chance. Natural selection is a non-random process. — Richard Dawkins
Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world? — Euripides
Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie. — Edward Furlong
Fire and Water are archetypes, the split sides of consciousness; one aware, the other, not. The two parts of us that desire synthesis, yet resist it: the self and the shadow. But they are also the element of chance, of the random roll of dice. — Chris Abani
In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day. — Salman Rushdie
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. — Eberhard Weber
Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran — Christopher Paolini
In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose. — Paul Auster
Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself. — Robert A. Heinlein
Very little evidence was found that any individual fund was able to do significantly better than that which we expected from mere random chance. — Michael Jensen
..Such practices and beliefs, which interfere with happiness, are neither inevitable nor necessary; they evolved by chance, as a result of random responses to accidental conditions. But once they become part of the norms and habits of a culture, people assume that this is how things must be; they come to believe they have no other options. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting, often, of lights, streets, houses, human beings, beautiful or grotesque, which will weave itself into the moment for ever. — Virginia Woolf
I began in 1976, with small abstract paintings that allowed me to do what I had never let myself do: put something down at random. And then, of course, I realized that it never can be random. It was all a way of opening a door for me. If I don't know what's coming - that is, if I have no hard-and-fast image, as I have with a photographic original - then arbitrary choice and chance play an important part. — Gerhard Richter
If you flip a coin three times and it lands on heads each time, it’s probably chance. If you flip it a hundred times and it lands on heads each time, you can be pretty sure the coin has heads on both sides. That’s the concept behind statistical significance—it’s the odds that the correlation (or other finding) is real, that it isn’t just random chance. — T. Colin Campbell
Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data. — Hans Selye
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . . — Willard Van Orman Quine
New York City is filled with random, quirky moments like this, chance collisions that just might change your life. — Hope Edelman
Quantitative work shows clearly that natural selection is a reality, and that, among other things, it selects Mendelian genes, which are known to be distributed at random through wild populations, and to follow the laws of chance in their distribution to offspring. In other words, they are an agency producing variation of the kind which Darwin postulated as the raw material on which selection acts. — John B. S. Haldane
The future's so random, and so mobile, there's no way you're going to get to your vision of what you want your community to be just by chance alone. I really believe you have to let people know, to use your voice, to say, 'this is what I like about my place, I want to keep it this way, this is what I think can be improved, this is what I disapprove of.' That's the only way you can have a part in shaping the future. — Rick Bass
Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions. — Lauren Oliver
Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw — Robert A. Heinlein
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. — Frances Mayes
The Universe was a silly place at best...but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside. — Robert A. Heinlein
There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance. — Lynn Viehl
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again. — Albert Camus
It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists. — Greg Graffin
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