Quotes About Chance

La suerte es relativa.

I have often wondered if a person's life follows a path that is laid out long before he or she ever takes a first step. Or are we in control of what happens to us?

Personally, I believe certain things are meant to be and "coincidence" is far too casual a word for what happens to many of us.

But that's life, isn't it? For all we know, each day could be our last.

Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

You still have," I looked at my watch, "twelve seconds to change your mind. Find someone else and save your reputation." One side of his lip cricked up. "I found you. I'll take my chances.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Il n'y a pas de hasard, il n'y a que des méchancetés du sort et ses perfidies, préparées de longue main, n'ont cette apparence fortuite que parce que les dessous nous en échappent.

Before going back to sleep I imagined (I saw) a plastic universe, changeable, full of wondrous chance, an elastic sky, a sun that suddenly is missing or remains fixed or changes its shape.

Y debo decir que confío plenamente en la casualidad de haberte conocido. Que nunca intentaré olvidarte, y que si lo hiciera, no lo conseguiría.

Siempre he escrito sin saber demasiado por qué lo hago, movido un poco por el azar, por una serie de casualidades: las cosas me llegan como un pájaro que puede pasar por la ventana.

La técnica consistía en citarse vagamente en un barrio a cierta hora. Les gustaba desafiar el peligro de no encontrarse, de pasar el día solos, enfurruñados en un café o en un banco de plaza, leyendo-un-libro-más.

Pero de tonto sólo tengo la suerte...

convencida como yo de que un encuentro casual era lo menos casual en nuestras vidas

Ahora sé que no es así, que Johnny persigue en vez de ser perseguido, que todo lo que le está ocurriendo en la vida son azares del cazador y no del animal acosado.

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

En la vida, además de talento, hay que tener fortuna. Y la fortuna hay que perseguirla, no cae del cielo... Tú mismo me lo has dicho muchas veces.

There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the floud leads on to fortune ommitted, all the voyage of their lives are bound in shallows and in miseries

With the Gangster our girl finally got her chance. Who is surprised that in the final four months of her relationship with him there would be such an outpouring of affect? As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn't.

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more?

Events can seem random while you're living them, but when you look back, what do you see? A chain of coincidences? Plain old luck? Or something more? I'll tell you what I see, Peter. A clear path. More than that. A true path.

She did not believe in fate; the world seemed far chancier than that, a series of mishaps and narrow escapes you somehow managed to survive until, one day, you didn't.