Quotes About Chance

There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.

My father is a taxi driver, and my mother ran a small business. I hadn't even met a barrister before I got my first shot at the legal profession. But back then, I was lucky enough to be given a break - I can't help but wonder if I would be so lucky today.

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!

I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound - because I refuse to have my arm amputated - or I recover from it and continue being a soldier. I have a one-in-two chance, and I shall bet my life on it!

I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school holidays, and I was bored, and I thought I just wanted to do something to occupy myself instead of asking, 'What can I do, mum? Entertain me.' I started, and it really just took over, and I realised, 'Wow, this is an amazing experience.'

I had my chance in the World Cup Final and, wow, it was the opportunity I needed to show the whole world what I was capable of.

Sometimes it can be that a player is available and you can get them next month - wow, that's a bolt of lightning - but it doesn't happen that often, it really does vary.

Every year's going to be a what-if. That's the game of basketball. What if a guy turns his ankle? What if a guy gets in a car wreck coming to the arena? There are so many different aspects that could happen that nobody knows. Only the man upstairs knows.

All it takes is one punch, one big punch, and that could wreck everything for me.

The best way to describe 'Tough Enough' is to just call it an opportunity. In my opinion, it's best opportunity any aspiring wrestler could possibly have.

The combination of old and new is what every wrestling organization should be like. That way, you have a chance to match up the legends in dream main events.

I grew up watching wrestling my whole life, so to get the chance to step in the ring that I've watched on TV so many times is a dream come true.

People can say what they want about Eric Bischoff, and I've heard a lot of people make negative comments about him. I'll comment on his booking. His booking is not what I look for in wrestling, but that said, I will always be appreciative and thankful to Eric Bischoff for offering me the contract he did, when did because it saved my financial life.

The Cubs gave me a chance to play. They signed me as a free agent and brought me to the Major Leagues. The first day I walked into Wrigley Field was one of the best days of my life. And I owe them an awful lot.

One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.

Day after day in the season of disaster, it can be hard to recognize a chance in fortune when it comes.

Tarde o temprano, a todos nos alcanza el rayo.

It seems to me the nature of the world is all one thing or all the other. Either there is nothing but coincidence or there is nothing but established fare.

Whimsy is fate, too: just less knowable.

You could catalog the thousand ways people shrink from life, as if chance and change are by their nature toxic, disfiguring.

They had both failed, one to realize his dreams of love, the other to fulfill his dreams of power. What was the reason? "Perhaps it's because we didn't steer a straight course," said Frédéric. "That may be true in your case. I, on the other hand, was far too rigid in my line of conduct...I was too logical, and you were too sentimental." Then they blamed chance, circumstances, the times into which they were born.

It was the fault of destiny!

While there's life there's hope.

C'est ainsi, l'un près de l'autre, pendant que Charles et le pharmacien devisaient, qu'ils entrèrent dans une de ces vagues conversations où le hasard des phrases vous ramène toujours au centre fixe d'une sympathie commune.