Quotes About Chance

This so gnawed at him on some nights that he lay awake wondering just how many unknown and similarly inconsequential accidents and bits of happenstance were at this moment occurring or failing to occur in order to ensure he took his next breath, and the next.

By recruiting subordinates who had never worked at Standard Oil, he had a chance for a fresh start, where he could make his behavior, for the first time, as ethical as his rhetoric.

he was betting the future of his firm on one roll of the dice.

Something would happen or it wouldn't happen, and that was the way of it.

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IF I'D GOTTEN THE JOB I WANTED at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois. I've often wondered at how lives are shaped by what seem like small and inconsequential events, how an apparently random turn in the road can lead you a long way from where you intended to go—and a long way from wherever you expected to go.

mundo cambia constantemente y no está regido por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Por el más insufrible, estúpido e inadmisible azar.

Por azar. Por puro y ciego azar, como sucede todo en este mundo.

el mundo no se rige por la necesidad, sino por el azar.

Que el mundo no se rige por la necesidad, sino por el azar. Es ésta una sabiduría muy dolorosa, desde luego, porque supone admitir el sinsentido de la existencia. Bajo este punto de vista, todo, desde el sufrimiento hasta la heroicidad, no es más que un ciego capricho del universo, una broma colosal de la materia.

He thought back over the extraordinarily coincidental chain of events that had brought him here, at this particular time, and then left him marooned, so that he had no choice but to stay. With hindsight, it seemed as though it had all been carefully mapped out by fate.

Rose:i love you Doctor:Quite right, and i guess if it's my last chance to say it... Rose Tyler... (the doctor fades, him in his TARDIS, with tear tracks and a tear running down his cheek)

There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create.

Everybody knows what the world is like: anything can happen. And here is what happened on the Dune: five people, saving the land, saved themselves. What could they have wanted before that? To try one more time. To have a chance. And they were given that chance. 'It's good,' says Rysiek, 'that they gave it to us. And that it worked out.

El azar propicio aparece tan rara vez que cuando se presenta o se encuentra, hay que saberlo agarrar con toda la fuerza; el seducir a una muchacha no es un arte, pero sí lo es, ¡y cómo!, saber encontrar a una muchacha que merezca que se la seduzca.

Perhaps we will meet again. Anything is possible, especially in a place like this.

You can try and maybe fail, or not try and always fail

Learn to recognize good luck when it's waving at you, hoping to get your attention.

In spite of all evidence that life is discontinuous, a valley of rifts, and that random chance plays a great part in our fates, we go on believing in the continuity of things, in causation and meaning. But we live on a broken mirror, and fresh cracks appear in its surface every day.

You are ass and I like class. I like diamonds, you are a glass. You brown mouse, I like black cats. You boy pussy but i like tom cats. Just because you got the dance, don't think you stand a fucking chance.

If you walk away from God you should probably try to stay in the good books of Luck.

My mother's pregnancy, it seems, was fated; my birth, however, owed a good deal to accident.

and perhaps by something more; because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.

because, in my life, fate has never been unwilling to lend a hand.