Quotes About Chance

In order to have a change of fortune at the last minute, you have to take your fortune to the last minute.

Luck is my middle name, said Rincewind, indistinctly. Mind you, my first name is Bad.

The storm was really giving it everything it had. This was its big chance. It had spent years hanging around the provinces, putting in some useful work as a squall, building up experience, making contacts, occasionally leaping out on unsuspecting shepherds or blasting quite small oak trees. Now an opening in the weather had given it an opportunity to strut its hour, and it was building up its role in the hope of being spotted by one of the big climates.

Vimes took the view that life was so full of things happening erraticaly in all directions, that the chance of any of them making some kind of relevant sense were remote in the extreme.

I mean, it's a good job we've got a last desperate million-to-one chance to rely on, or we'd really be in trouble!

Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely a matter of chance in any case had left it bulging in places where it shouldn't have places. There were rooms containing rooms which, if you entered them, turned out to contain the room you'd started with, which can be a problem if you are in a conga line.

That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!

Things Just Happen, What The Hell

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one.

Certain things have to happen before other things. Gods play games with the fates of men. But first they have to get all the pieces on the board, and look all over the place for the dice.

Lu-Tze had long considered that everything happens for a reason, except possibly football.

It's a certainty, but it just might work.

And no cheating, Lady. he said. But who could cheat Fate? she asked. He shrugged.No-one. Yet everyone tries.

Particles of raw inspiration sleet through the universe all the time. Every once in a while one of them hits a receptive mind, which then invents DNA or the flute sonata form or a way of making light bulbs wear out in half the time. But most of them miss. Most people go through their lives without being hit by even one. Some people are even more unfortunate. They get them all.

Our fate like the fate of all species, is determined by chance, by circumstance, and by grace.

Sometimes, the stars line up, the gods smile, and love gets a fighting chance. Just a chance. That's all it can really hope for. No guarantees, no certainties

There's that unpredictability factor, that chance that something completely unexpected—something amazing—could happen. That's what makes life an adventure. Sometimes you just have to jump in and trust in the universe.

I figured I was going to apply to one journalism school and let fate take a hand.

You give me a song now, I will give my judgement, and 90 percent of the time I will be right. It is simple for me but is otherwise tough to do. But there are times - because I am not God - 10 percent of the times, when a song has worked though I said it would not.

For me to get a lead role in a real movie is something to jump at. It's not like I get to do that all of the time.

I'm the kind of guy that jumps at an opportunity.

I just kind of fell into acting.

I'm just like any person who is coaching in this league, I'm just looking for an opportunity, that's all.

I never wanted to be an actor. It was just something that happened.