Quotes About Chance

anything that was Infinitely Improbable was actually very likely to happen almost immediately.

Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else in life becomes eerily easy.

Anything that happens, happens.

But it was the chance carelessness of it which particularly appealed to Dirk because words used carelessly, as if they did not matter in any serious way, often allowed otherwise well-guarded truths to seep through.

What's that, forgone conclusion then you reckon, sir?' said the barman. 'Arsenal without a chance?' 'No, no,' said Ford, 'it's just that the world's about to end.

Madagascar had been a monkey-free refuge for the lemurs off the coast of mainland Africa, and now Nosy Mangabé had to be a monkey-free refuge off the coast of mainland Madagascar. The refuges were getting smaller and smaller, and the monkeys were already here on this one, sitting making notes about it. "The difference," said Mark, "is that the first monkey-free refuge was set up by chance. The second was actually set up by the monkeys.

But by an extraordinarily lucky chance they had not yet fully corrected their flight paths to that of the erratically weaving ship, and they passed right under it. "And the sweet silver song of the lark.'… Revised impact time fifteen seconds, fellas…. 'Walk on through the wind …

A second later and they would have been dead." "Yeah, so if you'd taken the trouble to think about the problem a bit longer it would have gone away.

thousand seven hundred and nine to one against. By a totally staggering coincidence that is also the

The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what "accident" means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what 'accident' means. The accident that eventually occurred was not what he had planned at all.

If I hadn't happened then to duck down a side street and pass a hotel where a convention for the deaf was being held, there is every chance that my mind would have cracked completely

Herkesin hayatta büyük f?rsat? yakalad??? bir an vard?r. EÄŸer gerçekten önem verdiÄŸiniz f?rsat? kaç?racak olursan?z, hayat?n?zdaki her ÅŸeyin ürkütücü derecede kolaylaÅŸt???n? görürsünüz.

Two to the power of twenty thousand to one against and falling.

The trouble with trying to make the right accident happen is that it won't. That is not what accident means.

If there was one thing life had taught her it was that there are times when you do not go back for your bag and times when you do. It had yet to teach her to distinguish between the two types of occasion.

Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.

How strange that all you have to do sometimes to meet somebody is walk up to their house and ring a doorbell, and magically they appear as if from nowhere.

Lines from an old film came back to him unbidden: That I should want you at all suddenly strikes me as the height of improbability. You're an improbable person, and so am I.

This was my number 17 on the roulette wheel.

Watchful are the Gods of all Hands with slaughter stained. The black Furies wait, and when a man Has grown by luck, not justice, great, With sudden overturn of chance They wear him to a shade, and, cast Down to perdition, who shall save him?

But I believe in luck - in destiny, if you will. It is your destiny to stand beside me and prevent me from committing the unforgivable error." "What do you call the unforgivable error?" "Overlooking the obvious.!

Any coincidencce is worth noticing. You can throw it away later if it is only a coincidence.

but the unlikely happened more often than one would be disposed to believe.