Quotes About Chance

But I knew I was there for a reason. There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you've been too dumb to take, doors you've been too blind to step through.

There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you're too dumb to see, doors you've been too blind to step through.

There are no coincidences. Only

There are no coincidences. Just opportunities you're too dumb to see, doors you've been too blind to step through. And for every one you miss there's some poor fucking soul who's been left behind, waiting for someone to come along and show him the way out.

I mean, that's where you're going with this, aren't you? Just because we rattled off some names doesn't mean we have any control over them dying or going missing or whatever.

What if that girl I kissed—and believe me, I knew she was a girl—was a relationship that was supposed to happen? A relationship that was destined?

Life is short. You've got to take what you can while you can.

Social and cultural history is often comprised of whatever diaries and letters remain and that is down to chance and wide open to interpretation.

How many times we must have met Here on the street as strangers do, Children of chance we were, who passed The door of heaven and never knew.

Sometimes rescue comes to you. It just shows up, and you do nothing. Maybe you deserve it, maybe you don't. But be ready, when it comes, to decide if you will take the outstretched hand and let it pull you ashore.

If this kept up much longer, I was going to happen to someone.

Our fear leads us to say no all the time.

Coincidence doesn't happen a third time.

In such seconds of decision entire futures are made.

I don't know whether this is the best of times or the worst of times, but I assure you it's the only time you've got. You can either sit on your expletive deleted or pick a daisy.

When you have an opportunity to take the lead and you don't, most of the time something bad happens.

Time is definitely money, so if you screw up a day or a shot, you may not get a chance to go back and get that shot and redo that day.

Some great people are leaders and others are more lucky, in the right place at the right time. I'd put myself in the latter category. But I'd never call myself a normal designer of anything.

If one is sufficiently lavish with time, everything possible happens.

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.

If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster

A lot of girls ask for advice on how to get into acting, and I'm kind of the worst person to ask, because it just kind of fell in my lap... I was just in the right place at the right time.

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

You can't predict how much time you will get to embrace your opportunity. You have to go after it with everything you have in you, sacrifice and believe.