Quotes About Chance

Lifeis an enormous lottery: the prizes are few, the failures innumerable. Out of the sighs of one generation are kneaded the hopes of the next. That's life.

For all things there is a place and time.

Luck is a woman. She's drawn to those that least deserve her.

What do the dice say?" Dice say nothing. They are dice." Why roll'em, then?" They are dice. What else would I do with them?

Apologise to my fucking dice!

You are lucky, Thorn. You are very lucky." "Doubtless. Not every girl gets to be stabbed through the face." "And by a duke of royal blood too!

makes us no promises, no guarantees. Things move toward us whether we want them or not. Accidents occur, illnesses strike, and bombs fall. One street can be pulverized, the next one over not even scratched. Chance is so shifty and arbitrary.

There was no reason for what happened to you, Eddie. You could have died; you just didn't. It was dumb luck. Nobody chose you for anything. Which means, truly, that you can do anything.

He was as nervous as a boy before his first kiss. He had one chance to win her, to seduce her, to make her love him. He was, once again, hopelessly in love with her.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

And sometimes you do everything right and something bad just happens. It's as simple, and as scary, as that.

Chance, if you let it take over, is not blind at all, as they say, but clever, even witty. You just have to trust in it completely. If you interfere and try to help it along, then things get bungled and chance mistakenly gets the blame. If you just leave everything to it and yield to it completely, then it usually arrives at the right outcome quickly, unpredictably, and directly.

The emotional appeal of a conspiracy theory is in its simplicity. It explains away complex phenomena, accounts for chance and accidents, offers the believer the satisfying sense of having special, privileged access to the truth.

That care included forced lessons, forced cutting, and no chance or choice to experience life.

I imagine there must be only a very, very few men in the world, that I should like to marry; and of those few, it is ten to one I may never be acquainted with one; or if I should, it is twenty to one he may not happen to be single, or to take a fancy to me.

he smashes the black car of his luck.

Some people get dealt all the aces in life.

Three out of the four are good choices.' 'Three out of-' Her voice strangled. 'And the fourth?' He waved a hand. 'An outside chance. Besides' - his eyes stayed on the ledger - 'whoever the winner, the prize will be immense enough that he will become a prize himself, whatever his previous faults or station.

I am going to lose myself – or else, the chance is that poetry will save me.

Thinking in bets starts with recognizing that there are exactly two things that determine how our lives turn out: the quality of our decisions and luck. Learning to recognize the difference between the two is what thinking in bets is all about.

Chess, for all its strategic complexity, isn't a great model for decision-making in life, where most of our decisions involve hidden information and a much greater influence of luck.

When someone asks you about a coin they flipped four times, there is a correct answer: "I'm not sure.

Making better decisions starts with understanding this: uncertainty can work a lot of mischief.

Left to our own devices, we will notice some of the bad luck but overlook most of the dumb luck.