Quotes About Chance

If I knocked and waited at every door, who knows what I might miss?

The vandals didn't stand a chance against five hundred–odd pounds of badass dog flesh. They

if we have several hundred or several thousand cultures, each with its own cosmology, we should not be astounded if, every now and then, purely by chance, one of them proposes an idea that is not only correct but also impossible for them to have deduced.

Somos el producto de una larga serie de accidentes biológicos. En la perspectiva cósmica no hay razón alguna para pensar que seamos los primeros, los últimos o los mejores.

The emerging picture of the early Solar System does not resemble a stately progression of events designed to form the Earth. Instead, it looks as if our planet was made, and survived, by mere lucky chance,* amid unbelievable violence. Our world does not seem to have been sculpted by a master craftsman. Here too, there is no hint of a Universe made for us.

Luck is believing your lucky.

There are meaningful deaths. And there are absurd and utterly meaningless deaths. Unfortunately, you don't get to choose which one you get.

Much of what happens to us in life is due to chance and circumstances beyond our control. Being in the right place at the right time. Discovering that others have impacted us more than we know and for reasons that are not entirely clear. But hard work matters, too. There is an old saying: The harder I work, the luckier I get.

We use so many words to describe what happens to us, and it all amounts to the same thing. We live out our lives as we are meant to live them—with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

One kiss did not create a lifetime relationship. One moment did not define everything that would happen in the future.

You were guaranteed so little in this life, and so sometimes you took what was offered even though you knew it might end badly.

Everything happens for a reason, though we might not

Once lucky, twice confident, and thrice dead.

Sometimes it's more important to seize the chance and do what you can even knowing that it won't likely account for everything, that it is to do nothing.

Your only chance is to let the truth escape.

If you make enough predictions, eventually you will get one right, but that is by accident, not design.

It was foolish to trust in luck once; twice was arrogance of the worst kind.

Whatever happens, they say afterwards, it must have been fate. People are always a little confused about this, as they are in the case of miracles. When someone is saved from certain death by a strange concatenation of circumstances, they say that's a miracle. But of course if someone is killed by a freak chain of events -- the oil spilled just there, the safety fence broken just there -- that must also be a miracle. Just because it's not nice doesn't mean it's not miraculous.

The philosopher Didactylos has summed up an alternative hypothesis as Things just happen. What the hell.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Chances are where you find them

Thunder rolled . . It rolled a six.

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.

Last hopeless chances have got to work. Nothing makes sense otherwise. You might as well not be alive.