Quotes About Chance

It's not my decision, what goes on with who gets a title shot. I mean, some people get their shots in two or three fights. They're pretty lucky. I wish I could be like them.

Everybody's one fight away from getting a title shot if they step in on short notice for somebody.

Any time you get a title shot, you always try to wait for it the best you can.

To be honest, I really enjoy the chance to meet the fans because I've found with 'The Hobbit,' the fans are all really lovely and enthusiastic.

Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

Democrats like to picture us as pushing grandmother over the cliff or throwing someone under the bus. In either one of those scenarios, at least the senior has a chance to survive.

Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there's a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there's another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.

What I went through in 1976, it's the same today: It's about all the pressure that you feel, the anxiety, the family, and everything that surrounds the Games, and then getting there knowing this is your big chance, and you're able to come through. It's such a satisfying thing.

I did not acquire the franchise merely so people could experience 'Duke Nukem Forever.' That was, sort of, the toll to pay to give 'Duke Nukem' a chance at a future.

I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.

It's all in the view. That's what I mean about forever, too. For any one of us our forever could end in an hour, or a hundred years from now. You never know for sure, so you'd better make every second count.

If grace belongs to God, there are those who say that luck belongs to the Devil and that he looks after his own.

life is risk. The only choice is, are you the taker or the taken?

This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography.

People congregate according to their relative levels of luck.

These Fatalists preach that Chance and Peril are merely masks for Fate's workings, nothing in themselves, and moreover that all the gods move at Fate's bidding. Their followers take comfort in thinking that their every deed is meant to be; it excuses all manner of meanness.

Lightning only strikes once," my dad said. "And when it hits, you know.

This was merely the malignant hand of coincidence.

She pours a libation-not to the dragon, for the dragon is destruction and death and needs no homage-but to the Earth who heals herself if given half a chance, and then proceeds to get royally hammered.

Bad choices are part of life, aren't they? Doesn't mean your next choice can't be a good one.

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

Death is nothing but to the last chance to meet the god

There is always a unlucky person behind a lucky person or the lucky person can not be lucky.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.