Quotes About Chance

Happiness is always a coincidence.

Getting on a popular, long-running show like 'Happy Days' is the actor's equivalent of winning the lottery.

Intentionality and talent always matter. An extraordinary feat is certainly made more likely by someone's focus, hard work, etc. But chance also matters.

I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.

I was approached to do 'MythBusters' in 2002. I didn't think it would go anywhere, but I guess anything can happen if you wear a funny hat and have lots of facial hair.

Denver, of course I've got to take my hats off to them, because they took a chance of drafting me in the first round.

One of the first lessons he or she learns is that in baseball anything, absolutely anything, can happen. Just two days ago as I write this, something happened that had never happened in baseball before.

I want to be able to help out and give back to people and give them something nice to be able to train at and get a chance to get a head start on things. And just continue to push out my brother's story while I reach out to kids.

I think things just happen to people. That's healthier, I feel, than believing there's some grand scheme where your story is already inscribed in the Book of Life. Books get rewritten.

If I gamble, I'll play roulette. My wife and I will play roulette, and that's about it. I'm not a heavy gambler.

In the Hebrew language, there's no such word as coincidence.

I was lucky that it hit my shaft, and then my helmet, and I was lucky enough to get that breakaway.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

I don't differentiate a film as off-beat or commercial, because I just don't understand the difference. 'Naanum Rowdy Thaan,' for example, wasn't written for me. It came to me by chance after two or three other heroes turned it down. I agreed to do the role, as I liked the script immensely.

When he asked if I would like to try second base, I thought, Hey, get me in the lineup.

One day Dad was driving in to New York to appear on a telethon. I hid in the back seat until he had gone too far to turn back. I pleaded with him to let me appear on the telethon with him. He finally agreed. Richard Rodgers happened to be watching the telecast, and he called Dad afterwards with the offer of a job for me.

Just by chance, I happened to meet someone who told me there was a high level quizzing circuit.

In my experience there is no such thing as luck, my young friend—only highly favorable adjustments of multiple factors to incline events in one's favor.

They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes." Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients-- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

Though waiters always die poor, they have long runs of luck occasionally.

gambling, the cheapest of all luxuries.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. You

Good luck, we do find, often follows opportunity but seldom comes otherwise.