Quotes About Chance

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

meant to be." Nancy took one

With a little luck you can get what you wish for

But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

Her whole life would have been different. Her whole life had hung on whether or not a man walked down a garden path and slipped on ice. If he hadn't slipped, she would have married someone else, lived in different places, had different children, perhaps even been happy. It was a dreadful thought.

Liberty acting without motive is no more liberty, it is chance, and chance is another name for ignorance.

Luck, though, as Billy had said it so many times, was like lightning--it struck sinners and saints in equal measure, and it did to on its time-table, not yours.

Fate comes in and sweeps us all like a big broom, you hear? And the dust goes flyin' and it lands where it lands, and we get no say in the matter.

Don't be discouraged if you have bad luck today. Better opportunities are always waiting ahead.

But sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things--a chance word, or a tap on the shoulder, or a penny dropped on the newsstand--I am tempted to think that nothing dies. And that there are no little things.

A series of accidents creates a positively lighthearted state.

Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance, so are everybody else's.

I have invested my heart. There is a chance that it will be broken but also a chance at unlimited happiness.

Oh, it's not really gambling when you never lose.

We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life.

The only chance for a guy like me is to make a decent picture for a reasonable budget. If it brings in a profit for investors, maybe I'll have the opportunity to make something else.

In any international sporting career an opportunity comes along that you have to grab. Mine came at Old Trafford in 1985 when I was recalled to the England team to face Australia. It was a huge chance to prove I belonged in the Test side but I failed to take it.

The No. 1 rule you're taught as a receiver: You've just got to watch the ball. You hear about the guy who was lucky. But the guy who was lucky got an opportunity, and he was prepared for it. Sometimes the ball falls your way, and, you know, we'll take it.

There is always some chance of recession in any year. But the evidence suggests that expansions don't die of old age.

I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.