Quotes About Chance

law of large numbers is employed because, as we've said, Bernoulli's theorem concerns the way results reflect underlying probabilities when we make a large number of observations.

there remains the big picture, the question of how much randomness contributes to where we are in life and how well we can predict where we are

I'm not saying we'll live to see some sort of paradise. But just fighting for change makes you stronger. Not hoping for anything will kill you for sure. Take a chance, Jess. You're already wondering if the world could change. Try imagining a world worth living in, and then ask yourself if that isn't worth fighting for. You've come too far to give up on hope, Jess.

Now I must leave you as you enter the world that is Fuck. You are fucking lucky to be here. It's almost utopian.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.

Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.

In a world like this one, only the random makes sense.

You can never know about about your own destiny: are the people you meet there to play a part on your oun destiny, or do you exist just to play a role in theirs?

Ain't that the way of the world, now? Good luck turns bad. Bad luck turns good. Just a big rolling craps game played between this world and the next, and we the dice getting tossed around.

We've got about as much chance of communing with the dead as we do of sitting in Parliament.

Sam's mother used to say that inside everyone was the chance to change the world. It sat like a seed eager to grow into greatness. The professor could have his ghosts. Ordinary people were capable of extraordinary bravery. That was the only magic Sam knew or trusted.

But that was another quirky thing about Fate; she never bargained, and she never gave second changes.

He didn't believe in miracles. If he'd had any philosophy in life in ran along the lines of the classic shit happens. Usually it was bad shit, sometimes it was good shit, but it was always random shit. You lived your life, & when the run was ended, that was it. Nothing.

A stab in the dark sometimes brought blood.

Echo:The thing about love is you always end up losing it. Cora: Oh but what you miss if you wont take the chance.

Society is like this card game here, cousin. We got dealt our hand before we were even born, and as we grow we have to play as best as we can.

Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

I stood at a crossroads and fate came to meet me.

I don't believe in fate, because I'm not spiritual, but things do seem to work out.

There is no moment, ever, that does not either hold an opportunity or a lesson that God is offering.

Good luck is opportunity meeting preparedness.

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.

When one door opens, so does another one.