Quotes About Chance

how unfair not to give him that other chance, that other chance which, he now had no doubt at all, he had always intended to take.

Children?—that would be the most desperate experiment of all. The most desperate, and perhaps the only one having any chance of being successful.

We can't leave the world any longer to the direction of chance. We can't allow dangerous maniacs like Luther, mad about dogma, like Napoleon, mad about himself, to go on casually appearing and turning everything upside down.

Fue la casualidad. O quizá no, quizá fue más sencillo que eso. Quizá fue simplemente que a veces la vida nos quita cosas y otras, cuando menos creemos necesitarlo, decide cuidarnos, fiel a una ley de la compensación que no responde a la física ni a la química, sino a un orden que nadie ha sabido explicar todavía.

Non è per cambiare che si ricomincia da capo. Si ricomincia da capo per cambiare tavolo. Si ha sempre questa idea di essere capitati nella partita sbagliata, e che con le nostre carte chissà cosa saremmo riusciti a fare se solo ci sedevamo a un altro tavolo da gioco.

Ho capito che non si cambia veramente mai, non c'è modo di cambiare, come si è da piccoli si è tutta la vita, non è per cambiare che si ricomincia da capo. Si ricomincia da capo per cambiare tavolo, disse. Si ha sempre questa idea di essere capitati nella partita sbagliata, e che con le nostre carte chissà cosa saremmo riusciti a fare se solo ci sedevamo a un altro tavolo da gioco.

Il proiettile corre e non sa se ammazzerà qualcuno o finirà nel nulla, ma intanto corre e nella sua corsa è già scritto se finirà a spappolare il cuore di un uomo o a scheggiare un muro qualunque. Lo vede il destino? Tutto è già scritto eppure niente si può leggere.

We like to think that we plan what happens to us, but it is chance, surely, that lies behind so many of the great events of our lives -- the meeting with the person with whom we are destined to spend the rest of our days, the receiving of a piece of advice whic influences our choice of career, the spotting of a particular house for sale; all of these may be put down to pur chance, and yet they govern how our lives work out and how happy--or unhappy--we were going to be.

Chance; pure chance. But chance was a dull explanation because it denied the possibility of the paranormal, and people were often disappointed by dull explanations. Mystery and the unknown were far more exciting because they suggested that our world was not quite as prosaic as we feared it might be. Yet we had to adjure those temptations because they lead to a world of darkness and fear.

When we dismiss or deny the hopes of others, she thought, we forget that they, like us, have only one chance in this life.

We were tiny creatures, really; tiny and afraid, trying to hold our place on the little platform that was our earth. So while the world about us might seem so solid, so permanent, it was not really. We were all at the mercy of chance, no matter how confident we felt, hostages to our own human frailty.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang… !

Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.

More often than we care to admit, inconsequential decisions change our lives.

Everything in life is luck.

Oh, so seldom does fate cast our enemy into our hands, to do with as we will

to every life there eventually came a moment when one had to accept the fact that the shape, the pattern, the direction of the future was entirely out of one's hands, to be decided unalterably by chance, by fate or by God.

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that…

car seat-belts. The vast majority of the time they served no real purpose. Even bad drivers could go years between accidents. But when an accident finally did occur—in that precise instant—a seat-belt became the only thing standing between a chance for life and a grisly death.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct." —Niels Bohr, Nobel Laureate & Quantum Physics Pioneer

Luck is the last refuge of the incompetent,

no money could ever be made from it, only lost.

The opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself." —Sun Tzu, The Art of War