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Quotes About Random

But the longer you live, the more you realize there are a lot of flukish things in this world.
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
nós somos apenas episodicamente condutores de sentido, no essencial e em profundidade nós nos comportamos como massa, vivendo a maior parte do tempo num modo pânico ou aleatório, aquém ou além do sentido.
~ Jean Baudrillard
Le hasard, c'est la forme que Dieu prend pour passer incognito.
~ Jean Cocteau
People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing....
~ Jean Paul Sartre
The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.
~ Jeanette Winterson
This is a quantum universe,' said Spike, 'neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.
~ Jeanette Winterson
Tu eÈ™ti pentru mine relaÈ›ia necesar?. ToÈ›i ceilalÈ›i sunt întâmpl?tori.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
An accident, a random change, in any delicate mechanism can hardly be expected to improve it. Poking a stick into the machinery of one's watch or one's radio set will seldom make it work better.
~ Theodosius Dobzhansky
Of course, if people do not want to do any work then it is better to start the game from a random position.
~ Garry Kasparov
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
I don't live in the city, I don't work in a high-risk environment, and I am not a smoker. So it was never anything that would occur to me that I would get lung cancer, but the more I have learned about lung cancer is that it is becoming much more random, and it is striking women who are under 50 and are non-smokers and not in a risk environment.
~ Dana Reeve
All things happen for a reason . . . even No Reason is still a reason.
~ Unknown
You know what the biggest lie in the world is?' 'Tell me.' 'That everything happens for a reason. It's not true. Some things are totally without reason. Some things – the things that hurt the most – are totally meaningless. Some things make no sense and will never make sense.' I
~ Tony Parsons
We're all just people, some of us accidentally connected by genetics, a random selection of cells. Nothing more.
~ Tracy Letts
frightened people shriek the loudest and fire at random.
~ Paul Scott
That which takes effect by chance is not an art.
~ Seneca the Younger
The money that could have saved the Shuttle, and the money we send to random countries, that we use to remake unchangeable countries ten thousand miles away.
~ Dave Eggers
But hang on a minute. Since when was 'random' associated with colour and 'definite' with drawing? Since when did drawing and colour become ciphers for order and chaos? Perhaps it doesn't matter: the prejudice is in place.
~ David Batchelor
For what place can be left for anything to happen at random so long as God controls everything in order? It is a true saying that nothing can come out of nothing.
~ David Eddings
In view of this, it may seem remarkable that anything as complex as a text of Hamlet exists. The observation that Hamlet was written by Shakespeare and not some random agency only transfers the problem. Shakespeare, like everything else in the world, must have arisen (ultimately) from a homogeneous early universe. Any way you look at it, Hamlet is a product of that primeval chaos.
~ William Poundstone
Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.
~ William Shakespeare
We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more--there is no greater relationship.
~ Yann Martel
Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context—randomly the rules everyone else gets to play by no longer apply to you, and to call this out by calling out "I swear to God!" is to be called insane, crass, crazy. Bad sportsmanship.
~ Claudia Rankine
Perhaps this is how racism feels no matter the context—randomly the rules everyone else gets to play by no longer apply to you, and to call this out by calling out "I swear to God!" is to be called insane, crass, crazy. Bad sportsmanship. Two
~ Claudia Rankine