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Quotes About Chance

we can easily see that being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.
~ Sean Patrick
Most opportunities never announce themselves with trumpets and confetti.
~ Sean Patrick
being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else. Now,
~ Sean Patrick
being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.
~ Sean Patrick
the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.
~ Sean Patrick
In those strange days when if anything unexpected could happen it probably would.
~ Sebastian Barry
If at the one moment in your life when the chance of something transcendental is offered to you, if you have this chance to move beyond the surface of things, to understand - and you say, No, maybe not... What then? How do you explain the rest of your life to yourself? How do you pass the time until you die? Do you substitute for that an interest in what - eating? Do you spend the next sixty years trying to be fascinated by the act of breathing?
~ Sebastian Faulks
And sometimes in life, I imagine, good things do happen. Most of the time, it's the opposite, obviously. But I don't think you should rule out the possibility that just occasionally chance might deal you a good card.
~ Sebastian Faulks
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
~ Seneca
Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.
~ Seneca
Luck never made a man wise.
~ Seneca
No man was ever wise by chance.
~ Seneca
Delay not swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.
~ Seneca
I can't see the line between deliberate intention and coincidence.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
La lectura es un juego secreto de aproximaciones y distancias. Es también una lotería.
~ Sergio Pitol
To experience heaven on earth, all it takes is one dance. No matter what, take the chance, move forward, freedom will finally be within grasp
~ Shah Asad Rizvi
Life here is a gamble in which when you win, you lose. Be content, that's how you beat the game. This world is like a pair of dice, the only reason you pick them up is to throw them down!
~ Shaikh Abu-Saeed Abil-Kheir
when we receive the gift of grace, it should transform us into grace-filled people who want to see other people given a chance, and other people loved back to life again.
~ Shane Claiborne
Thanks and praises Thanks to Jesus I bet on the Bottle of Smoke I went through hell And to the races To bet on the Bottle of Smoke The day being clear The sky being bright He came up on the left Like a streak of light Like a drunken fuck On a Saturday night Up came the Bottle of Smoke Twenty fucking five to one Me gambling days are done I bet on a horse called the Bottle of Smoke And my horse won
~ Shane MacGowan
Sometimes one does not mean to fall in love. Sometimes it just happens
~ Shannon Hale
But fluttery hope suggested that when she was ready to open back up, perhaps all emotions wouldn't be stones-pressing-chest horrible. She had no specific expectations. She just contemplated that bird's heartbeat inside her and considered it was time to take a chance.
~ Shannon Hale
Josh: Just because you're not looking for something doesn't mean you won't find it. Sean: Well, aren't you quite the fucking fortune cookie.
~ Shannon Stacey
But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me.
~ Shannyn Sossamon
This is the team that when you look at it, you say, 'This is our time.
~ Shaquille O'Neal