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William Shakespeare4 quotes
There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries. — William Shakespeare · 1599Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare · 1604O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. — William Shakespeare · 1597Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. — William Shakespeare · 1611Stephen Jay Gould3 quotes
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1989We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1996Wind back the tape of life to the early days of the Burgess Shale; let it play again from an identical starting point, and the chance becomes vanishingly small that anything like human intelligence would grace the replay. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1989Forrest Gump2 quotes
My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. — Forrest Gump · 1994I don’t know if we each have a destiny, or if we’re all just floatin’ around accidental-like on a breeze. But I, I think maybe it’s both. Maybe both get happening at the same time. — Forrest Gump · 1994Adam Ferguson1 quote
Every step and every movement of the multitude, even in what are termed enlightened ages, are made with equal blindness to the future; and nations stumble upon establishments, which are indeed the result of human action, but not the execution of any human design. — Adam Ferguson · 1767Arthur Eddington1 quote
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington · 1928Boethius1 quote
What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order? — Boethius · 523Edward Gibbon1 quote
Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. — Edward Gibbon · 1789George Mandel1 quote
That's the way the ball bounces. — George Mandel · 1952John Page1 quote
We know the race is not to the swift nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm? — John Page · 1776Khaled Hosseini1 quote
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. — Khaled Hosseini · 2013Terence1 quote
There are vicissitudes in all things. — Terence · 161 BCTwo-Face/Harvey Dent1 quote
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced…fair. — Two-Face/Harvey Dent · 2008