Quotes About Chance

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky.

It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

Any time you take a chance you better be sure the rewards are worth the risk because they can put you away just as fast for a ten dollar heist as they can for a million dollar job.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

I'm aware of the luck in [BABIP], but at the same time, you can't directly influence it. You can just keep mixing your patterns, executing and locating, That's the human element of this game.

Anything can happen. Anything happens all the time.

Out lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.

So much of friendship is about being in the right place at the right time.

The emotional appeal of a conspiracy theory is in its simplicity. It explains away complex phenomena, accounts for chance and accidents, offers the believer the satisfying sense of having special, privileged access to the truth. For those who become the one-party state's gatekeepers, the repetition of these conspiracy theories also brings another reward: power.

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view.

There's always a chance of death; and it is always well to live with such a chance in view.' 'Yes

To survive was to escape fate. But if you escape your fate, whose life do you then step into?

The working classes were often the same, give them a chance to idle and they'd take it with both hands. Still, couldn't blame them entirely. Their life was gray enough. He would have done the same.

We have the future now," she whispered. "Does it matter that we've wasted so many opportunities to meet in the past?

the moral world seemed some desperate dream of rationality that in this lush and fetid jungle had not the slightest chance.

It's the risk that fascinates, the moment of infinite possibility.

There was never any innocence for us, there was never any springtime. There was never any chance, no matter how beautiful the twilight gardens in which we wandered. Our souls were too out of tune, our desires crossed and our resentments to common and too well watered for the final flowering.

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Well, think about it, Lestat, I'm young, I'm stupid. And I'm pretty. Look at the cameo. I'm pretty. Give me a chance.

The thing about caller ID is," Red said, more or less to himself, "it seems a little like cheating. A person should be willing to take his chances, answering the phone.

For years, she had been in mourning for the way she had let her life slip through her fingers. Given another chance, she'd told herself, she would take more care to experience it. But lately, she was finding that she had experienced it after all and just forgotten, and now it was returning to her.