Quotes About Chance

There's an awful lot of luck relative to skill. Investing is 95% luck and 5% skill.

but things had arranged themselves, as they often do, rather than been arranged by him.

What to do with the Lookalofts even Mr. Plomacy could not decide. They must take their chance. They had been specially told in the invitation that all the tenants had been invited, and they might probably have the good sense to stay away if they objected to mix with the rest of the tenantry.

It is likely that unlikely things should happen

Choice, not chance, determines your destiny.

It is a part of probability that many improbabilities will happen.

All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity.

There's room for destiny! For miracles! There always is, and they always happen!

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we have.

Whether it is the best of times or the worst of times, it is the only time we've got.

Si. La vida toma el partido de la vida y culpa a les víctimas. Pero no fueron los MEJORES los que sobrevivie ron ni los que murieron. Fue al AZAR.

So the problem of Evil never really existed. To expect the universe to be benevolent was like imagining one could always win at a game of pure chance.

It had to happen to someone. There is nothing exceptional about you, any more than there is about the first neutron that starts the chain reaction in an atomic bomb. It simply happens to be the first. Any other neutron would have served

Rolf van der Berg was the right man, in the right place, at the right time; no other combination would have worked. Which, of course, is how much of history is made.

Pure coincidence, of course, but a sensible man makes coincidences work for him.

The most trifling events can, in a mere moment of time, totally change the course of a man's life. And often it is not possible, even at the end, to decide whether the change was for better or for worse.

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

This fellow will not go wrong again; he is too terribly frightened. Send him to gaol now, and you make him a gaol-bird for life. Besides, it is the season of forgiveness. Chance has put in our way a most singular and whimsical problem, and its solution is its own reward.

It's true that you set us on the right track; but you'll own now that it was more by good luck than good guidance.

Let the high God judge between us. Choose and eat. There is death in one and life in the other. I shall take what you leave. Let us see if there is justice upon the earth, or if we are ruled by chance.

La casualidad ha puesto en nuestro camino un problema de lo más curioso y extravagante, y su solución es nuestra recompensa

What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.

Las cosas siempre aparecen cuando las necesitamos. —Eso no es verdad—replicó. —Sí que lo es. Sólo tienes que decidir si eres lo bastante fuerte y valiente como para aprovechar la oportunidad que se te presenta.