Norman Cousins Quotes

If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.

A thousand probabilities don't make one fact.

In the end, the world always wins. That's just the way of things.

Anything that exists is possible.

There is no suspense in inevitability.

Anything is possible in this world. I really believe that.

Nothing is inevitable until it happens.

Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities.

Anything that can happen, will happen.

Life's most important questions are, for the most part, nothing but probability problems.

When you are young, there is so much ahead of you, it's like the Saharan desert. You can't even see across it.

Each beginning is the end of a waiting. We are each given exactly one chance to be. Each of us is both impossible and inevitable.

What exists, exists. You cannot change that.

What is, is, and what might have been could never have existed.

Everything resembles the truth, everything can happen to a man.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere.

This door's wide-open now. It's going to happen whether you like it or not.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

The visible becomes inevitable.

In a universe governed by God there are no chance events. Indeed, there is no such thing as chance. Chance does not exist. It is merely a word we use to describe mathematical possibilities. But chance itself has no power because it has no being. Chance is not an entity that can influence reality. Chance is not a thing. It is nothing.

What exists, is possible.

Things happen the way they happen because the world is the way it is.

But if you consider all the unlikely things together, at least one of them will probably happen to each of us.

Let us never doubt everything that ought to happen is going to happen.