Quotes About Chance

If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn't exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

Maybe if the right person floats into your life, you have to jump in with both feet and try to make it work before the tide turns.

You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.

love is all about timing

Real love finds you once, if you're lucky.

Love just happens. We don't have to do anything.

The thing about love was that it caught you unawares, turned up in the most unexpected places, even when you weren't looking for it.

Each breath I breathe is one more chance to share my love with those around me.

Some people got lucky, and some people made their own luck.

Even if Shawn and Paul wanted to team up to murder people they thought had wronged them, there seemed little chance that the woman she'd just met would have had any part in that.

Everything I feel attracted to, all things that hold me enthralled in an ever more fierce and tyrannical fascination: that is all I can call reality. All the rest is just chance. This kind of reality leaves more traces of suffering than of happiness: but nobody thinks about that.

La lotteria è una tassa sulla stupidità

Do you think luck only lasts so long, and then lets a person down?

Academically, the Duke had often reasoned that a man for whom life holds no chance of happiness cannot too quickly shake life off. Now, of a sudden, there was for that theory a vivid application.

History has proven that a well-trained individual, with nothing but a rock, has a better chance of survival than a novice with the latest technological marvel.

All good ideas arrive by chance.

Es ist aber, wenn einmal das Unwahrscheinliche eintritt, nichts Höheres dabei, keinerlei Wunder oder Derartiges, wie es der Laie so gerne haben möchte. Indem wir vom Wahrscheinlichen sprechen, ist ja das Unwahrscheinliche immer schon inbegriffen und zwar als Grenzfall des Möglichen, und wenn es einmal eintritt, das Unwahrscheinliche, so besteht gür unserein keinerlei Grund zur Verwunderung, zur Erschütterung, zur Mystifikation.

It is essential to take risks. Examine the life of any lucky man or woman, and you are all but certain to find that he or she was willing, at some point, to take a risk. Without that willingness, hardly anything interesting is likely to happen to you.

The fact is, no formula that ignores luck's dominant role can ever be trusted. This is the great, liberating truth of the Fifth Axiom.

Je viens des regrets, je vais vers le rêve et je suis là par hasard.

Le hasard est une toile d'araignée dans laquelle le destin vient parfois se prendre.

Things are rarely as random as they appear

Anything can happen in the blink of an eye. Anything at all. One. Two. Three. Blink.