Quotes About Chance

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A pesar de mi edad (acabo de cumplir cuarenta y cinco) aún creo en el azar, el golpe de dados que supone salir en la noche a buscar un trago en una ciudad extraña, una aventura para la cual el tiempo nos va volviendo torpes y por eso, con los años, algunos prefieren la botella cerca del sofá y el televisor

What we think is impossible happens all the time.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

I knew that in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late again. I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome.

I paused, only just now realizing that the subject was hitting a little close to home. You know, getting hurt. Putting herself out there, opening up to someone. Yeah, he said adding some cheese straws to the cart, but risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I picked up a box of cheese straws, examining it. Yeah, I said. But it's not all about chance, either.

Life is long. Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life. Like words build a story, and what had Ted said? One word can change the entire world.

But risk is just part of relationships. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

You want me to give her a key? the guy asked. I want you to give her a possibility, she told him, looking at my necklace again. And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance. You know?

For any of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred of years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

In any moment, there were so many chances for paths to cross and people to clash, come together, or do any number of things in between. It was amazing we could live at all, knowing all that could occur purely by chance. But what was the alternative?

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

The thing is I'm a great believer in the perfect moment. They don't come around that often.

I could pretend otherwise, pushing it out of sight and hopefully out of mind. But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

I had to wonder whether it was possible that this wasn't already decided for me, and if maybe, just maybe, this was my one last chance to try and prove it. There was no way to know. There never is. But I reached out and took it anyway.

I want you to give her a possibility. And that's what a key represents. An open door, a chance.

Maybe this next time would do the trick. Or maybe not. But unless you stepped into the game, you would never know.

Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour, could make all the difference. So much hanging on just these things, tiny increments that together build a life.

For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You can never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no? Not me. Not then. Call it crazy, or just chicken salad. But within reason, or even without it, I was in, too.

Just because you don't get your chance right when you want or expect it doesn't mean it won't come. Fate doesn't punch a time clock or consult a schedule.