Quotes About Chance

We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it.

Technology alone isn't enough. To really get the money shots, it's down to being in the right place at the right time.

I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of the right subject at the right time, and in the right light.

You never know how much time you'll have.

It's hard to believe, but anything can happen. Accidents do happen, unfortunately, it happened at the worst time.

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

Baseball is only a game, a game of inches and a lot of luck. During a time of all-out war, sports are very insignificant.

If there was time on the clock there was a chance.

Yes, there's a luck in most things; and in none more than being born at the right time.

There are, I dare say, many lovers who would never have been drawn to each other had they met for the first time, as, say, they met the second time.

we, dear wife of my bosom, could have been perfectly happy if you had ever given us half a chance, for we are so much alike.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

On croit que ce sont des choses extraordinaires. C'est comme le reste. Comme le reste, ça vous arrive. Ensuite ça vous est arrivé. Ça pourrait arriver à n'importe qui.

Maar de menselijke geest accepteert niet graag dat hij afhankelijk is van het toeval, dat hij slechts het voorbijgaande product is van kansen waarover geen enkele god zeggenschap heeft, hijzelf zeker niet.

And maybe I was wasting time trying to make sense of things: sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen.

sometimes things don't happen for a reason, sometimes things just happen. It

I'd always felt that there was only a finite amount of good fortune in the universe to go around.

and it mightn't be

Life was all about timing.

You build a tower then you also build the chance it will fall. To think of life as a foolproof is a falacy of fools, he thought. Things happen, he believed, and there's nothing you can do to keep them from occuring.

Mary's was a virgin birth, and the word virgin means a woman unto herself. The actualized woman is powerful unto herself and gives birth to things divine. Today we have the chance to give birth to a healed and transformed world.

Forgiveness is a full time job, and sometimes very difficult. Few of us always succeed, yet making the effort is our most noble calling. It is the world's only real chance to begin again.

This morning the world by moonlight seemed to be an immemorial acquaintance I had always meant to befriend. If there was ever a chance, it had passed. Strange to say, I feel a little that way about myself.