Quotes About Chance

Everyday holds the possibility of a miracle.

in life, as in mutual funds, past performance is no guarantee of future results.

Sometimes the best part in life is an accident that goes right.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Every happiness is a hostage to fortune.

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.

He was the brother of the one that [I'd photographed]. I was just walking in the mall, ran into him, didn't know him from Adam—how many are the chances of that happening? Astronomical." When I read this, I stared at it. Was this a slip of the tongue by a serial killer who severed heads, who'd admitted being in Miami when the Walsh child was reported lost?

Evet," dedi profesör, "san?r?m öyle. Ya da sadece bir tesadüf. Böyle konularda hiçbir zaman tamamen emin olunamaz, biliyorsunuz. Tesadüf profesörü öldürdü.

The typical gambler might not really understand the probabilistic nuances of the wheel or the dice, but such things seem a bit more tractable than, say, trying to raise a child in this lunatic society of ours.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

But one never knows how the dice will fall, and they are always cast before anyone even notices.

Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod. La última carta la juega la Muerte.

Cada uno es su propia suerte

Cuando te toca, ni aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, ni aunque te pongas.

Ésas son cosas de la suerte —suspiró filosófico Garza—. Las balas las disparan los hombres y las reparte Dios.

Después resulta fácil continuar, porque si en la realidad hay muchas cosas que suceden por azar, en la ficción casi todo discurre según reglas lógicas.

Cuando te toca, ni aunque te quites; y cuando no te toca, ni aunque te pongas, dicen en México).

Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod. —¿La última carta la juega la Muerte?

Como ve,la incertidumbre corresponde al jugador, no a las reglas... De las infinitas trayectorias posibles de una bala, sólo una ocurre en la realidad.

Hay cosas que ocurren solas, concluye. Tal vez porque alguna regla oculta determina que deben ocurrir. Y tres veces son demasiadas para considerarse al margen.

El azar era una explicación que sólo tranquilizaba a los idiotas.

Unas veces se pierde y otras se deja de ganar.

Fate is not the same for all.