Quotes About Chance

long streaks are extraordinary luck imposed on great skill.

Only chance to make the world a success for humanity lies in technology, grand possibility technology provides to do more with less, and indiscriminately for everyone. Return to nature as nature pre-technologically was, attractive and possible as it still in some places is, can only work for some of us.

Christ, on the other hand, declares that every single one of God's creatures is under his hand and care, and that nothing happens by chance. In

I thought it was her wicked stepmother who poisoned her...' '...Turned out the wicked stepmother had an alibi.' '...Seems she was off poisoning someone else at the time. Chance in a million, really. It was just bad luck.

Luck ran out, but smart was for life.

Nothing in this place seemed bound by the rules of chance alone. There was a purpose to all that was happening, a pattern behind it, even if David could catch only glimpses of it in passing.

There are things in your past, preserved in memory almost by chance, that only later on, because of the course your own life takes, come to seem proleptic, or significant, or fascinating, when other things don't.

The name of God is the name of the chance for something absolutely new, for a new birth, for the expectation, the hope, the hope against hope (Rom. 4:18) in a transforming future. Without it we are left without hope and are absorbed by rational management techniques.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.

If I lose at play, I blaspheme; if my fellow loses, he blasphemes. So, God is always the loser.

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.

O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall! But come bad chance, And we join to'it our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us to'advance.

Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore: this is the second of our reign Love was as subtly catched, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, Which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, For though 'tis got by chance,'tis kept by art

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Your life is not a dress rehearsal - this is it! It's show time!

Where I'm from, life's a gamble, grab the dice/'Fore I leave, pray to God, then I grab my Nikes

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

Even if one's whole life were a mistake, there is always time to change.

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

I'm crazy enough to believe in taking chances in every way, in making choices and gambling with your life. That's the kind of gambling I believe in.

Tomorrow is a new beginning. Embrace the light of a new day, for you have a fresh chance to begin again, to make life beautiful.

When the time comes in which one could, the time has passed in which one can.

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.