Quotes About Chance

maybe the greatest gift marriage gives us is the chance to fantasize, to imagine that there's more to life than there actually is, and it accomplishes this by assuming responsibility for all the misery and dullness that we would otherwise equate with life itself.

El mayor lujo de nuestra existencia, por miserable que sea, es que no sabemos los días que nos han tocado en suerte

We all agree your theory is crazy. What divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being right."* { Niels Bohr }

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

But there is one thing that I've learned about luck. It rears its head as an opportunity, not a gift, and what seems to separate the lucky from the unlucky is the willingness to take Lady Luck for a ride.

How best to state his case. In a game of stakes and odds, Onions held a full corpse to his one arm – he didn't even have a pair.

Julius Caesar: "There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; / Omitted, all the voyage of their life / Is bound in shallows and in miseries." He thought

Poker is the game closest to the western conception of life, where life and thought are recognized as intimately combined, where free will prevails over philosophies of fate or of chance, where men are considered moral agents and where — at least in the short run — the important thing is not what happens but what people think happens.

Let me stand to the main chance.

Faith is a creative act. It is through faith that we transform the accidental events of our lives into the signs of our destiny. Happiness is fortuitous but meaning is conferred when chance is transfigured through a rebirth of images.

Pasteur, L. 1854. Chance favours only the prepared mind.

Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.

The essence of our effort to see that every child has a chance must be to assure each an equal opportunity, not to become equal, but to become different-to realize whatever unique potential of body, mind and spirit he or she possesses.

Call it the bipolar's dilemma: Take a chance and we risk losing control of our brains. Play it safe and we isolate ourselves from humanity.

The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence. And yet who among us hasn't been at its mercy?

Life gave me another chance to be happy. Only an idiot

The most underrated force at work in the universe is that of coincidence.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

Se was not a greatparent. Se did not have the skill of making luck.

Perhaps if we could sort one plot from another we would stand half a chance of averting them, but they're interwined as nettles, my friend.

I wondered if the Goodlaw had been waiting for us, or if this was a chance encounter. I guessed this was my opportunity to find out.

She said most people were good on the inside, where it mattered. You have to give them a chance to show their goodness, she used to say. Some people need more time, that's all.

There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning." "And

There was a time when I thought I could change everything. I have learned the hard way that we only have so much strength: better to use it for fights where we stand a chance of winning.