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Quotes About Chance

Ali's chances of winning "as remote as Zaire
~ Jonathan Eig
Siblings are thrown together by chance. Anything from love to hate can follow.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
If the whole country ever got that industrious the Japanese wouldn't stand a chance.
~ Jonathan Kellerman
after all, a great power is a great power, it doesn't become one by chance, and doesn't remain one by chance, either.
~ Jonathan Littell
Faith is the defeat of probability by the power of possibility.
~ Jonathan Sacks
A typical master. Right to the end, he didn't give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at that last moment I'd have liked to tell him what I thought of him. Mind you, since in that split second we were, to all intents and purposes, one and the same, I rather think he knew anyway.
~ Jonathan Stroud
I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand.
~ Jonathan Swift
Every dog must have his day.
~ Jonathan Swift
How life can change if you're lucky enough to be around for it.
~ Emily Perkins
You better lose yourself in the music, the moment You own it, you better never let it go You only get one shot, do not miss your chance to blow This opportunity comes once in a lifetime, yo
~ Eminem
You don't get another chance. Life is no Nintendo game.
~ Eminem
The truth is you do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. "ifr is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. -Eminem
~ Eminem
The truth is you do not know what is going to happen tomorrow. "if is a crazy ride and nothing is guaranteed. -Eminem
~ Eminem
Coincidence is the word we use when we can't see the levers and pulleys.
~ Emma Bull
So many things shape our lives, our choices, our decisions, but in the end we make our own destiny. – Jack Maguire (hero)
~ Emma Darcy
The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
~ English proverb
22 bullet—very unlikely to kill
~ Enrique Krauze
Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.
~ Eric Ambler
Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism...
~ Eric Chaisson
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.
~ Eric Chaisson
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.
~ Eric Chaisson
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable.
~ Eric Hoffer
There can be no freedom without freedom to fail.
~ Eric Hoffer
MÁS ALLÁ DEL «SITIO JUSTO EN EL MOMENTO ADECUADO» Hay un grupo de emprendedores famosos que ganaron millones porque parecían estar en el sitio justo en el momento adecuado. Sin embargo, por cada emprendedor con éxito que estaba en el sitio justo en el momento adecuado, hay muchos que también estaban en ese sitio y en ese momento, pero fracasaron.
~ Eric Ries