Quotes About Chance

that the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life;

There is almost always a long tail of possibility, however thin. What's wrong with looking for it? Nothing, it seems to me, unless it means we have failed to prepare for the outcome that's vastly more probable.

But it was his best chance of dying peacefully, in his own bed, and being able to say good-bye to his loved ones.

Sometimes you're lucky and you don't even know it.

Sometimes you find bad luck and good luck in the same place.

Some people carry their luck with them and people got to find it.

I think out of seven billion people, there is probably more than just one soul mate. Surely, the paid employee in charge of each person's love life has taken into account the possibility of fatal snake bites and heavy falling objects.

Somehow, through a flip of the coin, I ended up here. Feeling like somebody at the top of the heart-lung transplant recipient list. Damaged but invigorated and fucking lucky.

The truth is that life itself is brutally, obscenely unfair. Consider all those other millions of sperm cells that were just as good as the one that resulted in you, and where are they now? Dead, nowhere.

They have to take a chance, everything they do is taking a chance, but they feel so much safer when they take it on something they know to be ugly, vain and stupid.

Doc Webster's eyes rolled briefly, like loaded dice, and came up snake eyes.

In short, we suffer from an "illusion of control" that fools us into thinking the future is more predictable and less uncertain than it really is. Or worse, we believe we can influence chance events through our own actions.3

A dream will always triumph over reality , once it is given a chance..

The chances that lose in the lottery of being are invisible

Witchcraft is fun. It offers us a chance to play, to act silly, to let the inner child come out. Out of foolishness and play, creativity is born.

It's so beautiful. Spinner stared at the eagle wings of the Nebula, drinking in its pale colors. Louise, I'm so lucky to be here, to see this. Uvarov might have sent someone else through the Locks, that first time; not me and Arrow Maker. You might have asked someone else to learn to run your nightfighter for you - and not me. Louise, I might have missed this. I might have died without seeing it - without ever knowing it existed.

It was a cold-blooded lottery that paid off often enough to be worthwhile adapting for.

And if you were part of a group there was always the chance that the predator would take the next guy, not you.

We can't choose where we come from,but we can choose where we go from there.

As long as she had that light, there would always be a chance.

Even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can choose where we can go from there.

Take the chance and live. Whatever strategy you choose, YOU WIN.

There is no such thing as luck. If you think you're lucky and that'll carry you through, you're living on borrowed time.

It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innumerable flaws of his life and have them taste wickedly in his mind and wish for another chance.