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Randomness19 quotes
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes 9:11 · 931 BCMy mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. — Forrest Gump · 1994There 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 · 1604I 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 · 1994Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. — Edward Gibbon · 1789All 19 quotes →Fortune4 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 · 1599Vicissitudes of fortune, which spares neither man nor the proudest of his works, which buries empires and cities in a common grave. — Edward Gibbon · 1789O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. — William Shakespeare · 1597Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. — William Shakespeare · 1611The human condition3 quotes
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes 9:11 · 931 BCThere 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 · 1599I 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 · 1994Evolution2 quotes
We 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 · 1989Intelligent life2 quotes
We 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 · 1989Timing2 quotes
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes 9:11 · 931 BCThere 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 · 1599American Revolution1 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 · 1776Beauty1 quote
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. — Khaled Hosseini · 2013Fate1 quote
I 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 · 1994Fickleness of fortune1 quote
O Fortune, Fortune, all men call thee fickle. — William Shakespeare · 1597Forces of history1 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 · 1767Free will1 quote
What place can be left for random action, when God constraineth all things to order? — Boethius · 523Good luck1 quote
Beauty is an enormous, unmerited gift given randomly, stupidly. — Khaled Hosseini · 2013Human evolution1 quote
We 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 · 1996Life1 quote
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould · 1989Man and animals1 quote
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington · 1928Morality1 quote
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced…fair. — Two-Face/Harvey Dent · 2008Probability1 quote
If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters they might write all the books in the British Museum. — Arthur Eddington · 1928Purpose of life1 quote
I 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 · 1994Reputation1 quote
Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving. — William Shakespeare · 1604The world1 quote
The world is cruel, and the only morality in a cruel world is chance. Unbiased, unprejudiced…fair. — Two-Face/Harvey Dent · 2008Tides1 quote
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 · 1599Unpredictability1 quote
My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. — Forrest Gump · 1994