Quotes About Chance

So much in life came down to timing.

My life is a big accident, so where I end up, I think it's all accidents.

Nothing in life and nothing that we do is risk-free.

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

That's been my sort of aim in life, to never miss an opportunity.

Don't put stock in past lives. It's this life that makes the difference. And in this life, there may be certain destinies, people you're meant to meet.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

I reflected that for all the people you lost touch with or couldn't hold on to, life occasionally made up for it by giving you the right person at the right time.

We didn't miss it. This is it. C'mon. You wanna go home?

Hold'em - like life itself - has its defining moment. It's the flop. When you see the flop, you're looking at 71 percent of your hand, and the cost is only a single round of betting.

In matters of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. (not literal translation) - Dan's les champs de observation le hasard ne favorise que les esprits prepares.

You learn in life that a lot of things are the result of effort, but some things, in terms of scale, are random.

The Ordinary Life: the misery seems planned, the happiness accidental.

I guess life is full of maybes.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

Give an enemy one chance to surrender. But one chance only. After that, take action.

In his experience, people who attributed their success to luck often had a lot to do with making their own luck.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

Opportunities are seldom labeled.

A hundred thousand people were killed by the atomic bomb, and these six were among the survivors. They still wonder why they lived when so many others died. Each of them counts many small items of chance or volition a step taken in time, a decision to go indoors, catching one street-car instead of the next that spared him. And now each knows that in the act of survival he lived a dozen lives and saw more death than he ever thought he would see. At the time none of them knew anything.

An ill wind that bloweth no man to good.

A dog hath a day.

Is there some risk every day we walk out our front door? Every time we get in our car? Yeah. Are we materially less safe now than we were 10 years ago? Whatever delta there is, it's very small.