Quotes About Chance

Chance favors the prepared." — Louis Pasteur

Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.

That's how luck works, lad. You can bitch all you like about how things could have been more favorable for you, but rest assured things can always be worse. Always.

Can't buy in for the last hand if you don't get there in time to take a chair.

Twenty's good and proper." While Locke gestured for Calo and Galdo to help him set

The average claw machine is only programmed to give the claw full strength every 20 tries.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance.

It was a once in a lifetime thing. I hate to think it but I bet it's true. It's too bad for us that our once in a lifetime happened when were too young to handle it.

It wasn't luck or the order of the universe. It was simply what had happened.

Six turns." A more superstitious man might have taken that for a bad omen. Tanner only considered himself half-superstitious. He didn't believe in the good ones.

Mais c'est renfantillage - this is childishness!' we heard de Grandin pant as we closed in and sought a chance to seize his skeleton-like antagonist. 'He who fights an imp of Satan as if he were human is a fool!' ("The Man In Crescent Terrace")

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Whoever has been spared the worst is lucky.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

California State University Professor Mike Orkin points out that if a person drives ten miles to buy a ticket, he or she is about sixteen times more likely to get killed in a car crash on the way than to win the jackpot. Wait a minute, you say; that may be for one ticket, but they're buying a lot of tickets—surely, that improves the odds. It does, but Orkin notes that a person who buys fifty tickets a week will win the jackpot on average about once every 30,000 years.

Don't play Quantum Russian Roulette.

If you're in enough places at enough times, then some of them are bound to be the right ones.

You have a "turn" every time you have an opportunity to choose. But most of us only see a tiny fraction of the choices we have.

I have to warn you. I promised my mother, a long time ago. She said I had to give folks a chance to walk away.

If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'

Sometimes, it is not the kings and queen who make for the most fascinating history but the shadowy souls who happen to be in the right place at the right time.

I have lived for a long time inside a series of coincidences that most people would find implausible in a novel.

Accidents can happen at any time.