Quotes About Chance

She thought of the boy's features as an exquisite distillation out of random patterns-endless queues of happenstance meeting at this nexus.

Fortune passes everywhere.

Governments may rise and fall for reasons which appear insignificant, Prince. What small events! An argument between two women . . . which way the wind blows on a certain day . . . a sneeze, a cough, the length of a garment or the chance collision of a fleck of sand and a courtier's eye. It is not always the majestic concerns of Imperial ministers which dictate the course of history, nor is it necessarily the pontifications of priests which move the hands of God.

the most persistent principles of the universe were accident and error. Even

Fate was sometimes inscrutable.

people who live out there lives with a single fixed idea: Get them! It was a dangerous universe where such ideas were allowed to float around freely. Good civilizations took care that such ideas did not gain energy, did not even get a chance for birth. When they did occur, by chance or accident, they were to be diverted quickly because they tended to gather mass.

Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.

In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.

The whole theory of warfare is calculated risk

Neither of them had asked that this thing should be—that their destinies, their very souls, should be the sport of chance. If they could have known, they would have shunned the fearful risk. But they were allowed no voice in the matter. Why should it all be?

Everything appears to me to be an artificial construction of the mind. Every mark by someone else, every chance look throws everything in me over on the other side, even what has been forgotten, even what is entirely insignificant. I am more uncertain than I ever was; I feel only the power of life. And I am senselessly empty.

Take my warning to heart instead, and don't be so unyielding in future, you can't fight against this court, you must confess to guilt. Make your confession at the first chance you get. Until you do that, there is no possibility of getting out of their clutches, none at all.

Precisamente, la cautela exige tener una posibilidad inmediata de huida; precisamente, la cautela exige, como por desgracia ocurre muchas veces, arriesgar la vida.

Mahkeme, inanc?ndan asla döndürülemez. Burada bir tuvale yan yana bütün yarg?çlar?n resmini yapsam ve siz de kendinizi bu tuvale savunsan?z, gerçek bir mahkeme önündekine oranla daha çok ÅŸans?n?z olur.

Wilder has only got a puncher's chance. He can't outbox Fury, Fury is like a magician when it comes to movement. He holds Wilder's card, he can see his punches coming.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

'New Jack City' was a perfect marriage of music and film. They used a lot of musicians: myself, Christopher Williams. People that were popular because of their music were given the chance to act. And the soundtrack was incredible.

What many people don't realise is the first F1 test I was offered by Frank Williams and the team was a one-off. It was never planned that I would become part of the team or it would lead to more.

Whenever you put out music, you're just rolling the dice, and the nice thing with Spotify is they're willing to roll them with you.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

If you're not willing to risk, there are no rewards.

What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that's my favorite thing. I know there's somebody out there who hates it.

I am grateful for the willingness of both Jurgen Klinsmann and Everton manager Roberto Martinez to afford me the opportunity to spend time with my kids.