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Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
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causation
kalam-cosmological-argument
inspirational
causality
serendipity
cause-and-effect
necessity
darwinism
chance
naturalism
luck
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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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coincidence
chaos
chance
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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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bravery
courage
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
living
inspiring
life
inspirational
chances
second-chance
taking-chances
belief
chance
second-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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love
the-wedding
nicholas-sparks
sparks
nicholas
chance
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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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science
fred-hoyle
serendipity
coincidence
fine-tuning
id
intelligent-design
theism
chance
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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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good-and-evil
fate
time
free-will
choice
change
chain-of-events
long-term
circumstance
intention
cause-and-effect
results
opposites
result
chance
crime
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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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commitment
uncertainty-principle
uncertainty
chance
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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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science
coincidenc-e
fine-tuning
id
intelligent-design
religious-science-fiction
theism
theistic-science-fiction
chance
naturalism
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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
michener
poland
soldier
chance
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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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time
opportunity
human
improve
strive
chance
conceit
promise
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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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shells
waking-life
beach
chance
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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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heroic
bravery
sacrifice
heart
king-william
benefit
ernst-haeckel
haeckel
homage
eliot
glory
george-eliot
queen-victoria
chance
genius
sublime
intellect
colossus
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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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fate
philosophy
attorneys
legalist
vigilante
legalism
law
chance
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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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future
path
chance
focus
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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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love
brat
glorious
narcissim
poke-fun
pursue
remind
self-absorption
spoled
tease
cat
woo
chance
narcissistic
narcissus
charm
court
like
joke
reminiscence
courtship
wooing
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Robin Hobb |
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"R.I.P. Jerry Lewis
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laughter
god
life
jerry
jerry-lewis
lewis
r-i-p
chance
laugh
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Anthony T.Hincks |