Quotes About Chance

Still - so many of the important times in life begin by seeming incidental.

It was a matter of chance that I should have rented a house in one of the strangest communities in North America. It was on that slender riotous island which extends itself due east of New York—and where there are, among other natural curiosities, two unusual formations of land.

The statesmen who led the Allied countries through war and depression knew better and resolved to give idealism a chance.

Tudo o mais é uma grande maçada para quem está presente por acaso. E a sociedade em que nascemos é o lugar onde mais por acaso estamos presentes.

All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as a whole. It's just unconsciousness, curses of protest when chance hurls stones, echoes of unknown voices – a collective mishmash of life.

Passa tudo isso, e nada de tudo isso me diz nada, tudo é alheio ao meu destino, alheio, até, ao destino próprio — inconsciência, carambas ao despropósito quando o acaso deita pedras, ecos de vozes incógnitas — salada coletiva da vida.

It is a rule of life that we can and must learn from everyone. There are serious matters in life to be learned from charlatans and bandits, there are philosophies to be gleaned from fools, real lessons of fortitude that come to us by chance and from those who depend on chance. Everything contains everything else.

the chance circumstances of his life and the direction it had taken were dictated by his instincts, in his case inertia and detachment.

Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on.

I'm right on the edge of getting another movie. It's between me and a famous person. The studio said they're thinking about going with somebody with a name. I said, 'That's great! Because I have one!'

I was growing up around Leeds and I idolised Leeds. I went to Huddersfield and thought it was a good chance but I got there and felt like I didn't really fancy it.

I don't believe in fate.

I'm a big believer in fate, and it's working out well so far.

I will never do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' There are certain things you'll do that you have some control over, but you should do things that leave your fate in the hands of others, too.

I do believe in fate.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Fate has blessed me.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

I'm a very big believer in fate.

It makes me believe in fate. In most cases, the readings where I've been really bad have usually been the ones where I got the part.

Fate is for losers.

The word 'fate' doesn't really mean much to me in some ways. I think we make our own.

I'm not a big believer in fate, but, boy, I've had a lot of lucky breaks.