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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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causality
causation
cause-and-effect
chance
darwinism
inspirational
kalam-cosmological-argument
luck
naturalism
necessity
serendipity
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Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.
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chance
chaos
coincidence
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John Green |
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In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it!
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belief
bravery
chance
chances
courage
inspiration
inspirational
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
inspiring
life
living
second-chance
second-chances
taking-chances
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C. JoyBell C. |
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Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she would fall in love with me again, just like she had a long time ago. And that's the most wonderful feeling in the world. How many people are ever given that chance? To have someone you love fall in love with you over and over?
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chance
love
nicholas
nicholas-sparks
sparks
the-wedding
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Nicholas Sparks |
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"Scientists are slowly waking up to an inconvenient truth - the universe looks suspiciously like a fix. The issue concerns the very laws of nature themselves. For 40 years, physicists and cosmologists have been quietly collecting examples of all too convenient "coincidences" and special features in the underlying laws of the universe that seem to be necessary in order for life, and hence conscious beings, to exist. Change any one of them and the consequences would be lethal. , the distinguished cosmologist, once said it was as if "a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics".
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chance
coincidence
fine-tuning
fred-hoyle
id
intelligent-design
science
serendipity
theism
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Paul Davies |
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Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneath--all those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each?
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cause-and-effect
chain-of-events
chance
change
choice
circumstance
crime
fate
free-will
good-and-evil
intention
long-term
opposites
result
results
time
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H. Rider Haggard |
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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chance
commitment
uncertainty
uncertainty-principle
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Alan Lightman |
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"It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design."
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chance
coincidenc-e
fine-tuning
id
intelligent-design
naturalism
religious-science-fiction
science
theism
theistic-science-fiction
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Robert J. Sawyer |
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a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.
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black-swan
chance
michener
poland
soldier
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James A. Michener |
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"Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time."
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chance
conceit
human
improve
opportunity
promise
strive
time
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Robin Hobb |
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And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense--no--but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind; what perfectly rounded stone, what rare shell from the ocean floor. Perhaps a channeled whelk, a moon shell, or even an argonaut.
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beach
chance
shells
waking-life
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh |
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Compare King William with the philosopher Haeckel. The king is one of the anointed by the most high, as they claim--one upon whose head has been poured the divine petroleum of authority. . Compare with Queen Victoria. The Queen is clothed in garments given her by blind fortune and unreasoning chance, while . The world is beginning to pay homage to intellect, to genius, to heart. We have advanced. .
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benefit
bravery
chance
colossus
eliot
ernst-haeckel
genius
george-eliot
glory
haeckel
heart
heroic
homage
intellect
king-william
queen-victoria
sacrifice
sublime
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Robert G. Ingersoll |
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Whether you live or die, whether you're bad or good, whether you're born or not, it's all arbitrary... but what can I say? I don't like fate or chance, and I don't always play by the rules, legalist as I am.
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attorneys
chance
fate
law
legalism
legalist
philosophy
vigilante
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Rebecca McNutt |
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There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.
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chance
focus
future
path
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Robin Hobb |
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I'll never miss a chance to remind you of what a brat you were. A gloriously beautiful and very spoiled brat. I was utterly charmed by your complete self-absorption. It was rather like courting a cat.
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brat
cat
chance
charm
court
courtship
glorious
joke
like
love
narcissim
narcissistic
narcissus
poke-fun
pursue
remind
reminiscence
self-absorption
spoled
tease
woo
wooing
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Robin Hobb |
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"R.I.P. Jerry Lewis
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chance
god
jerry
jerry-lewis
laugh
laughter
lewis
life
r-i-p
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Anthony T.Hincks |