Quotes About Chance

Depend on the rabbit's foot if you will, but remember it didn't work for the rabbit.

History, as long as it continues to happen, is always another chance.

Grabbed in the ass by fate," his father used to say about coincidences like this. If there were coincidences like this. If there were coincidences...

A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.

I have never been one for putting my faith in odds. I put my faith in higher things.

But there is always one last chance—right?

human society is a web of mistakes; nobody has the sense to do the right thing at the right time, and when the chance is gone we break our hearts over vain longings.

The unexpected sometimes looks like a prompting of fate.

Lo inesperado a veces parece una invitación del destino.

It's frightening to live on luck

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

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.

I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both.

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

Two days before I got the audition for 'Extras,' I was offered a theatre role, and I asked my husband, Terry, whether I should take it or not. He said, 'No, wait and see what else comes in.' Lo and behold, along came 'Extras.' Now that was lucky!

When a new manager comes in, you need to show him what you can do, but that may mean waiting for your opportunity.

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.

Everybody in this league waits on an opportunity when you don't play the starter minutes, when you don't play the type of minutes you want. And with each given opportunity, you got to be ready to come out and perform.

I'm always inspired by music, things of that nature. Just life in general. I'm happy to be waking up and having another chance at it.

A future at Wal-Mart may sound a less-than-stellar prospect, but it's a whole lot better than no future at all.

For my part, I am not a great believer in bad luck on the cricket field, in business - in fact, in any walk of life.

The first time I walked by a crap table, I felt kind of funny.

I didn't have a career plan. But what I did was, whenever there was a door open and a new opportunity, I always looked into it and took a chance and walked through the door.

There was a time when 'Batman' really kept me from getting some pretty good roles, and I was asked to do what I figured were important features. However, Batman was there, and very few people would take a chance on me walking onto the screen. And they'd be taking people away from the story.