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Quotes About Chance

It wasn't the dying. He had seen men die all his life, and death was the luck of the chance, the price you eventually paid. What was worse was the stupidity. The appalling sick stupidity that was so bad you thought sometimes you would go suddenly, violently, completely insane just having to watch it. It was a deadly thing to be thinking on. Job to be done here. And all of it turns on faith.
~ Michael Shaara
Fortune is glass: it glitters, then it shatters.]58
~ Michel de Montaigne
Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by chance we live.
~ Michel de Montaigne
My point is not that everything is bad, but that everything is dangerous.
~ Michel Foucault
Remember that in change, no matter how strange or slight the chance, all hope lies.
~ Michelle Sagara West
I have concluded that we are in a world made by rules created by an intelligence. Believe me, everything that we call chance today won't make sense anymore. To me it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.
~ Michio Kaku
If you dishonor an agreement, learn from the experience and do your best next time. It is an act of grace to forgive. It is an act of love to offer yourself another chance.
~ Miguel Ruiz
Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of the cup.
~ Milan Kundera
Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.
~ Milan Kundera
For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
~ Milan Kundera
Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?
~ Milan Kundera
birds of fortuity flutter down on her shoulders...
~ Milan Kundera
Necessity knows no magic formuae—they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.
~ Milan Kundera
Unintentional beauty. Another way of putting it might be 'beauty by mistake'. Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. Beauty by mistake - the final phase in the history of beauty.
~ Milan Kundera
Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
Cada possibilidade nova que tem a existência, até a menos provável, transforma a existência inteira.
~ Milan Kundera
Rastlant?lar?n, sadece rastlant?lar?n söyleyecek bir sözü vard?r bize. Gereklilikten doÄŸan, olmas?n? beklediÄŸimiz, günbegün yinelenen her ÅŸey dilsizdir. Sadece rastlant?lar bir ÅŸeyler söyler bize.
~ Milan Kundera
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera
A whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing
~ Milan Kundera
Co-incidencia significa que dos acontecimientos inesperados ocurren al mismo tiempo, que se encuentran
~ Milan Kundera
Só o acaso pode nos parecer uma mensagem. Aquilo que acontece por necessidade, aquilo que é esperado e se repete cotidianamente é coisa muda apenas.
~ Milan Kundera
O acaso tem seus sortilégios, a necessidade não. Para que um amor seja inesquecível, é preciso que os acasos se encontrem nele desde o primeiro instante como os pássaros nos ombros de São Francisco de Assis.
~ Milan Kundera
Einmal ist keinmal
~ Milan Kundera
But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? Chance and chance alone has a message for us. everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
~ Milan Kundera