Quotes About Chance

There is no difficulty, no matter how serious, that cannot be overcome, but if you miss this chance, it might ruin your whole political life. Then it will be too late to repent.

When I looked around me, fate seemed to be the only explanation for what was happening.

The more you didn't want to bump into someone, sod's law dictated that the more often you would.

Lucky, lucky

It has been argued that the spontaneous emergence of life on Earth would have been such a rare event that it is the equivalent of a strong wind blowing through a junkyard and, from the materials there, creating an entire jumbo jet, by accident. That, the argument goes on, is how likely it would be for organic molecules to fit together through chance alone in just the right combination to make even the most basic life forms—quite an amazing level of coincidence

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally.

My purpose here isn't to elevate your success regardless, but simply to provide you with the opportunity to do so.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

You can fail at what you don't love so you might as well take a chance on doing what you do love.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

The gambler isn't playing a game; he is just playing.

A fool must now and then be right by chance. —WILLIAM COWPER

On the other hand, a discrete event (e.g., a football game, roulette, blackjack, or other casino game) has a defined ending point, which is characteristic of external losses.

Every day is a gift because it can either be the first day of the rest of our life or be our last day here on earth.

Ao que, digo ao senhor, pergunto! em sua vida é assim? Na minha, agora é que vejo, as coisas importantes, todas, em caso curto de acaso foi que se conseguiram ? pelo pulo fino de sem ver se dar ? a sorte momenteira, por cabelo por um fio, um clim de clina de cavalo. Ah, e se não fosse, cada acaso, não tivesse sido, qual é então que teria sido o meu destino seguinte? Coisa vã, que não conforma respostas. As vezes essa ideia me põe susto.

If you think well, you'll see that nothing is by chance, but common sense, which is a way to bind conscience and shackle freedom, denies that and prefers to go on believing in old, worn-out truths.

Also living is option.

Nobody can be held responsible for the pranks of destiny.

From the outside, business can look like "a seemingly mindless game of chance at which any donkey could win provided only that he be ruthless. But that is of course how any human activity looks to the outsider unless it can be shown to be purposeful, organized, systematic; that is unless it can be presented as the generalized knowledge of a discipline." —Peter F. Drucker

Love is the same as a safety pin missed in the lapel of chance.

Yo le quería decir que el azar se parece al deseo que un beso es sólo un asalto y la cama es un ring de boxeo, que las caricias que mojan la piel y la sangre amotinan se marchitan cuando las toca la sucia rutina.

Love is the same as a safety pin unsafe in the lapel of chance.

There is truly only one misfortune: that of not being born.