Top 39 Chance And Necessity Quotes
#2. There are two sacred causes in this world," he said, holding up his pinkie and ring ringer. "Chance and necessity. By chance I was there to help when you had need.
Rachel Hartman
#3. The truth of faith about creation is radically opposed to the theories of materialistic philosophy. These view the cosmos as the result of an evolution of matter reducible to pure chance and necessity.
Pope John Paul II
#4. Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
Democritus
#6. It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.
Charles Darwin
#7. I don't know why I love cherries and I love pickles. I eat about two or three Claussen pickles a day. Those are just things I snack on.
Monica Denise Brown
#8. Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#9. Reason looks at necessity as the basis of the world; reason is able to turn chance in your favor and use it. Only by having reasonremain strong and unshakable can we be called a god of the earth.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#10. Were you watching me sleep? Because I thought we agreed that's creepy.
Ilona Andrews
#11. Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.
Milan Kundera
#12. Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
Milan Kundera
#14. As President, I will not be the last to know what is going on in my command.
John F. Kerry
#15. One must turn the tongue seven times in the mouth before speaking.
Roland Barthes
#16. Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.
Victor Hugo
#17. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup.
Milan Kundera
#18. Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.
John Milton
#20. If you wanted to feel you were still somehow in control of a ship or a fleet or even your civilisation, talking amongst yourselves seemed to be the way you convinced yourself of it.
Iain M. Banks
#21. Do I look like a mess?" she asked.
He nodded. "But you're my mess," he whispered.
Julia Quinn
#22. 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
#23. We lay there completely bared to each other. Fully clothed but our souls naked!
Avijeet Das
#24. Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#25. As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.
Tom Perrotta
#26. Vegetarians may be appalled, but much of gardening is actually raising animals: the tiny ones under the earth's surface
Toby Hemenway
#27. Driving a car provides a person with a rush of dopamine in the brain, which hormonal induced salience spurs modalities of creative and critical thinking regarding philosophical concepts such as truth, logical necessity, possibility, impossibility, chance, and contingency.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#28. Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism ...
Eric Chaisson
#29. My books often involve characters who began in some form of mental isolation, with a feeling of having died to the world. Then they become involved in some kind of action where by necessity they're forced to reengage, to get back into the game of life, as it were. You could say that about 'Chance.'
Kem Nunn
#30. The web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#31. As the novelty of wearable tech gives way to necessity - and, later, as wearable tech becomes embedded tech - will we be deprived of the chance to pause, reflect, and engage in meaningful, substantive conversations? How will our inner lives and ties to those around us change?
Klaus Schwab
#32. You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire ... The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps ... I can hardly write without envy.
Michelangelo on the dead.
Michelangelo Buonarroti
#33. Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
Helen Keller
#34. Thomas hesitated at first, but he knew he had to tell them everything. And there was no better time than the present. He sucked in a deep breath and started talking.
James Dashner
#35. To study music, we must learn the rules. To create music, we must break them.
Nadia Boulanger
#36. In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).
Giordano Bruno
#37. The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.
Rachel Hartman
#38. I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.
Skrillex
#39. Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
Max Eastman
