Quotes About Chance

Je loopt altijd gevaar. Dat is de zuivere waarheid. Je loopt altijd gevaar en bent een speelbal van het lot, zelfs op de meest onwaarschijnlijke plaatsen.

Wonderful, wonderful, yet again the sword of fate severs the head from the hydra of chance.

Still I promise myself, "Next time I will do better" in the all-too-human conceit that I will always be offered a "next time.

Now, anyone with two thoughts in their mind can see that no future is set in stone. An infinite number of futures bud at the end of every moment, and each one of them can be changed by a falling rose petal.

sometimes luck belongs to children and madmen.

There is no such thing as an extraordinary coincidence. There is only destiny.

You can roll dice, and understand that the whole game may hinge on one turn of a die. You deal out cards, and say that all a man's fortune for the night may turn upon one hand. But a man's whole life, you sniff at, and say, what, this nought of a human, this fisherman, this carpenter, this thief, this cook, why, what can they do in the great wide world? And so you putter and sputter your lives away, like candles burning in a draught.

luck belongs to children and madmen.

There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next ten breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.

There is no path to the future, Fitz. The path is now. Now is all there is, or ever will be. You can change perhaps the next breaths in your life. But after that, random chance seizes you in its jaws again. A tree falls on you, a spider bites your ankle, and all your grand plans for winning a battle are for naught. Now is what we have, Fitz, and now is where we act to stay alive.

Perhaps the only thing about him that had been remarkable was that he had been given a chance.

There is coincidence and there is fate. I am more than willing to argue with coincidence. But the few times I have argued with fate, I have lost. Badly.

He would never trust to luck that his luck would not desert him. This convolution of logic pleased him.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

But the world is still unpredictable and still we survive by the grace of chance and the strength of our choices.

you shouldn't miss opportunities to live life. It could always be your last chance.

chances? Nil.

lucky son of a bitch who

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Or Nada aventurado, nada adquirido

Then Its A Coincidence Better Than a Sign From God - Eve

If destiny could bring two people together, then it could just as easily tear them apart, and, if it could tear two people apart, then it could just as easily bring them back together again. There was no beginning, middle and end to destiny. It wasn't neat and manageable. It was random and scary.

No coincidence, no story.

I didn't know you would be here last night, but you were. We can't fight fate. Instead, we must accept that fate has given us a special opportunity.

As A-ma said, every story, every dream, every waking minute of our lives is filled with one fateful coincidence after another.