Quotes About Chance

luck, aesthetic luck included, is just the ability to exploit accidents.

You can't have it both ways, Jess. There's are sure thing and then there's happiness--- but you gotta take the risk.

So little of what could happen does happen.

Victory awaits him who has everything in order—luck, people call it.

What, she wondered, was going to happen to people who think they know everything? What's going to happen without chance?

We play out our days as we play out cards, taking them as they come, not knowing what they will be, hoping for a lucky card and sometimes getting one, often getting just the wrong one.

To put one's trust in God is only a longer way of saying that one will chance it.

Death and dice level all distinction.

I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it. Every one has bad breaks, but every one also has opportunities. The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.

Inexorable etrangete! D'une vie mal defendue, rouler jusqu'aux des vifs du bonheur. How inexorably strange! In this shaky life, to throw even the quick dice of happiness. -Rene Char

Shortest straw pulls the skunk's tail.

Whoever shall review his life will find that the whole tenor of his conduct has been determined by some accident of no apparent moment.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into jail for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Persons who think there is no such thing as luckgood or badare entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it.

Let's pull the strings, one by one, place our bets and take these chances. One life to live, make it interesting.

Take risks! At best you'll be disappointed and at worst you'll limit your opportunities.

we have only one shot in this life,make the best of it

Entrepreneur should never forget that better to be lucky than smart. So many times it is not the intellect that wins.

Fortune followed the brave...take risks, you will also get suitably rewarded!

I read somewhere that there are no accidents, just ideas trying to find us.

women there, you would have a chance

The dice of love are shouting and madness.

These were children who were nimble enough to get around any kind of barrier and hungry enough to try, despite the danger and the very real repercussions if they were caught looting. Sophie drew in a sharp breath. "There's something I didn't miss, children fighting over the chance to get killed.