Quotes About Chance

It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

To be sure, many of the Sykes-Picot borders reflected deals cut in Europe rather than local demographic or historical realities. But that hardly makes the Middle East unique: Most borders around the world owe their legacy less to thoughtful design or popular choice than to some mixture of violence, ambition, geography, and chance.

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

Football is football, and a thousand things can happen.

Life is not a dress rehearsal.

Nothing happens by chance.

The Prince to a slightly more upbeat view of human action. In order "not to rule out our free will," he arrives at a formula by which Fortune is "the arbiter of half the things we do, leaving the other half or so to be controlled by ourselves.

Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet.

LOTTERY TICKET: a voluntary tax paid by people who are extremely bad at math.

Un golpe de suerte no es más que la raíz de la siguiente preocupación.

Pense na vida como uma imensa roleta. Há probabilidades infinitas à nossa espera. Coisas boas, coisas más. De vez em quando acontece uma coisa boa. De vez em quando acontece uma coisa ruim. Quem é responsável? Ninguém.

There is no moral to the story, any more than there is a moral to life. We cannot foresee when a bolt from the blue will put an end to the best-laid plans of mice and men.

Stop, people! Don't make me hurt you! What chance have you against one who can smash robots?

Coincidence is the superstition of the skeptic.

Actually I dont know if it ever works out unless you are standing in the middle of the street and dont see the ten-ton truck coming and this good guy pushes you out of the way and says its for your own good.

He who does not risk will never drink champagne.

You can't be a risk taker and expect to win each and every time. If you could control the future, then you wouldn't be taking any risks. And while failure leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, the sweetness of winning more than makes up for it, and you'll never win at anything unless you take a risk in the first place.

I've never been to Vegas, but I've gambled all my life.

A little ahead was a shop burnt in the riots. A man now sat inside with two large slabs of ice on the floor. A thought came to me: 'At last the poor shop has the chance to cool itself.

Tesadüflerin oyunca?? olacak olduktan sonra ne diye bir irademiz vard?? Kullanamad?ktan sonra gö?sümüzü dolduran hisler ve kafam?zdaki dü?ünceler neye yarard??

Life is a game that is only played once, and I lost. There is no second chance.

Evet, hep tesadüf... Onun s?rt?na giyece?i yoktu ve mal sahibi seksen kat üst üste giyebilirdi. Bu tesadüftü... Fakat, e?er mal sahibi bunlara ayda yirmi?er lira fazla verse, -bunu yapmak onu hiç de sarsmazd?- o zaman bunlar?n da birer kat, iki?er kat elbiseleri, çama??rlar? olur ve -tesadüf- böyle olmazd?... Tesadüfün bu kadar kolay de?i?ebilece?i hiç de akl?na gelmemi?ti.

Život je kocka koja se samo jednom igra, ja sam na kocki izgubio. Drugi puta ne mogu igrati...

It loved to happen.