Random Events Quotes

• Never believe that the so-called random events of life are anything less than God’s appointed order. Be ready to discover His divine designs anywhere and everywhere.

  Oswald Chambers

  Life, God, Christian

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.80, Discovery House

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• If you so choose, each day can be filled with even more joy than the one before. If you so choose, even the most seemingly random events can work in your favor.

  Ralph Marston

  Joy, Events, Each Day

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• When you expand your awareness, seemingly random events will be seen to fit into a larger purpose.

  Deepak Chopra

  Positive, Spiritual, Law Of Attraction

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 15, 2011

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• Our lives today are not conducted in linear terms. They are much more quantified; a stream of random events is taking place.

  J. G. Ballard

  Today, Events, Linear

  "The New Science Fiction". "The BBC Third Programme" with George MacBeth, www.jgballard.ca. February 1, 1967.

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• You know, there’s a philosopher who says, “As you live your life, it appears to be anarchy and chaos, and random events, non-related events, smashing into each other and causing this situation or that situation, and then, this happens, and it’s overwhelming, and it just looks like what in the world is going on ? And later, when you look back at it, it looks like a finely crafted novel. But at the time, it don’t.

  Joe Walsh

  Live Your Life, Events, Looks

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• Because the question for me was always whether that shape we see in our lives was there from the beginning or whether these random events are only called a pattern after the fact. Because otherwise we are nothing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Events, Shapes, Patterns

  Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.219, Pan Macmillan

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• It is a secret from nobody that the famous random event is most likely to arise from those parts of the world where the old adage"There is no alternative to victory" retains a high degree of plausibility.

  Hannah Arendt

  Secret, Victory, Events

  Hannah Arendt (1970). “On violence”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Our success should not be a random event, but the result of conscious actions.

  Tony Jeary

  Success, Events, Action

  FaceBook post by Tony Jeary from Jul 19, 2016

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• People see stories everywhere...We take random events and we put them together in a pattern so we can comfort ourselves with a story, no matter how much it obviously isn't true...We have to lie to ourselves to live. Otherwise, we'd go crazy.

  Patrick Ness

  Crazy, Lying, People

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• Sickness is real. However, I've seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all sickness is caused by sin. On the other hand, to believe that sin does not exist and that all of our trials and tribulations have naturalistic explanations or are simply random events may cause us to miss the very solution we seek. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland observed that "too many people . . . want to sin and call it psychology."

  Daniel K Judd

  Real, Believe, Hands

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• The ability to see our lives as stories rather than unrelated, random events increases the possibility for significant and purposeful action.

  Daniel Taylor

  Events, Stories, Action

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• Cancer is the emergent property of the accumulated errors in an ordered system. It's the consequences of random events.

  Steven Popkes

  Cancer, Errors, Entrepreneur

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• In the end, each life is no more than the sum of contingent facts, a chronicle of chance intersections, of flukes, of random events that divulge nothing but their own lack of purpose.

  Paul Auster

  Events, Purpose, Facts

  Paul Auster (1988). “The locked room”, Penguin Group USA

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• The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and are trained - through prayer, study, and careful analysis - to manifest the divine event of God's saving work in the midst of the many seemingly random events of their time.

  Henri Nouwen

  Christian, Prayer, Heart

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• Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

  Leonard Mlodinow

  Mean, Events, Ordinary

  Leonard Mlodinow (2008). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.12, Vintage

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• Like fanning through a deck of cards, my mind flashes on the thousand chances, trivial to profound, that converged to re-create this place. Any arbitrary turning along the way and I would be elsewhere; I would be different. Where did the expression "a place in the sun" first come from? My rational thought process cling always to the idea of free will, random event; my blood, however, streams easily along a current of fate.

  Frances Mayes

  Fate, Expression, Blood

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