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Quotes About Chance

He asked, Is there someone else in love with you? You're in luck, sir, there's been a cancellation.
~ Shirley Hazzard
She also depicted the cruel jokes of fate and chance unfolding in an amoral universe. It's just that instead of doing it with men and guns, she chose to write about mad, lonely girls and big, sinister houses.
~ Shirley Jackson
Everything was one big joke. There are people like that, you know. Not many, but they're around. It's my luck that their path had to cross mine.
~ Sholem Aleichem
My mother says, "It's not brains or good looks that a person needs, it's luck.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Who says you need luck to be lucky?" my mother answered, looking at me. Search me what that means.
~ Sholom Aleichem
Life is a very thin thread and it only takes a second to snap it
~ Sidney Sheldon
Fate will find you. You don't have to go looking for it.
~ Sidney Sheldon
every man must risk something so that in the end he does not have to risk everything.
~ Sidney Sheldon
The wind of fate, and in it rests our lives.
~ Sidney Sheldon
There had been a time when he would have thought this serendipity happened because God was on his side. Now he sees the arrogance of that thought.
~ Silas House
learning comes only from the taking of chances and risk
~ Simon Winchester
Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
When you stubbornly give one man a chance, you arbitrarily deny it to another one.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Nous ne possédons rien au monde - car le hasard peut tout nous ôter - sinon le pouvoir de dire je
~ Simone Weil
Every dream of friendship deserves to be shattered. It is not by chance that you have never been loved…. To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice.
~ Simone Weil
Oh, many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!
~ Sir Walter Scott
The rational part of my brain understands that everything is random. There are a million possibilities in the universe. Us meeting is just one of those possibilities, and just as meaningless. The thing is, though, I can't imagine a world that didn't bring us together. We were meant to be.
~ Sophie Kinsella
Maybe sometimes in life you just miss your chance
~ Sophie Kinsella
Maybe sometimes in life you get another chance. Maybe you can go back. Right back to... how it was in the beginning.
~ Sophie Kinsella
What should a man fear? It's all chance, chance rules our lives.
~ Sophocles
I, I count myself the son of Chance, the great goddess, giver of all good things— I'll never see myself disgraced.
~ Sophocles
And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.
~ Garth Brooks
Or perhaps - the secret of life is to choose your risks?
~ Gavin Lyall
My life is a series of things that just happen.
~ Harold Russell