Quotes About Chance

Lightening, like love, is never ruled by logic. Accidents happen, and they always will.

There are some things you have only once in a lifetime, and then only if you're lucky.

I used to think there was a plan, a rough plan, but a plan all the same," the doctor admitted. "Now, I believe there are a thousand plans. Every breath, every decision, influences the plan, expands it, shortens it, twists it all around. It's always changing. Those of us lucky enough to make it through the multitude of possible diseases and accidents get old. We get tired. We close our eyes.

but fate is fate and it can often be what you least expect it to be.

Statistics, Jenny had learned early on, never mattered when they applied to you, not if you were the one in a thousand who'd been struck by lightning

Love could ruin your life or set you free; it could happen by chance or be a well-planned decision.

How brief and hidden were the moments of destiny.

Promises didn't mean much...Anything could happen when all was said and done.

A lo más que llegamos todos es a conferir una apariencia fortuita a nuestros actos más deliberados

Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

He who ignores the law of probabilities challenges an adversary that is seldom beaten.

MISFORTUNE, n. The kind of fortune that never misses.

INSURANCE, n. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

Fate has a twisted sense of humor.

You have to pick your moment. He'd always said so. Told everyone who'd listen. Have to recognise it when it comes, and seize it, with no care for the past and no worries about the future.

More often than not bad luck meant bad plans.

In the end … the only thing a man can really do … is pick his moment. Watch for the opening, and recognise it when it comes, and seize it.

Surprise is like virginity. You only get the one chance at using it, and that normally turns out a crushing disappointment

Then you've got a chance to do better next time.' 'Next time?' 'Course. Doing better next time. That's what life is.

Maybe's a game with no winners.

When you're down to small stakes, you have to play long odds.

So this is what luck looks like, is it? I've often wondered.

but if you hold off till everything's perfect, think of all the great kisses you'll miss.