Quotes About Chance

return my attention to the situation at hand and realize Reality—the impatient bitch—has made my decision for me. She does that a lot. You get busy planning your life, then it has the nerve to just go ahead and happen to you before you're ready. Before you even get the chance to aim yourself right!

Do you wish to? I'm leaving on the morrow. 'Tis now or never, lass." He waited, watching her. "Some chances come but once, Chloe, and swift are gone.

I hate fate. I don't believe in her. Unfortunately, I think the bitch believes in me.

How could you make a mistake when you had one option?

Live long enough, and your life becomes your own to gamble with again

We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough.

Many people must have told you that you are lucky to be alive. I think you would have been lucky had you not been shot in the first place.

We've had fifteen years of being grown-ups when we could have got together and we never have. Doesn't that tell you something?' 'Yeah, that timing is everything. Hit on me again now.

Der Augenblick muß es ergeben." "Wenn aber kein solcher Augenblick kommt?" "So führe ich ihn herbei.

And this led Schlick to formulate a succinct moral principle: "Sei glücksbereit! " or, rendered literally in English, "Be ready for happiness!" The spirit of the remark, however, is perhaps more accurately caught by the less compact phrase "Always be ready to give happiness a chance!

I don't care that I'm taking a chance. I don't care that I may get my heart broken. If I don't at least give this a chance, I'll never be able to live with myself. I love this. I love this because it's funny. I love this because it's silly. I love him, I love him, I love him! And just like that...my heart goes boom.

I'm bad at relationships--I'm not gonna lie. And maybe you and I would be a mistake, but maybe we wouldn't. All I know is that if we don't try, we'll never know.

And there's always a better time than right now and there always will be. But right now is what we've got.

And failure, if you want to know, Dakota, is just another opportunity to try again.

We all die, you know. And the life you have or don't have is not always determined by you.

I think people marry far too much, it is such a lottery after all, and to a poor woman very doubtful happiness.

les esprits prométhéens croient être des hasards se mouvant librement dans un vide et capables de se « créer » eux-mêmes, le tout dans le cadre d'une existence dépourvue de sens ; le monde est absurde, paraît-il, mais on ne se rend pas compte - et cela est typique — de l'absurdité d'admettre l'avènement, au sein d'un monde absurde, d'un être censé capable de constater cette absurdité.

The right to take a chance, the right to suffer. The right to be unwise, the right to die. These aims are hateful to the government, which values ever frightened mouse and falling sparrow as equal to a tiger burning bright.

everyone in the land has an equal chance. In war the bravest becomes a general, in peace the cleverest is chosen as a councillor.

Having children is a lottery and you never know what you are going to draw out. Perhaps it is as well I got none.

Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails. I was heads. Had it gone my way, there might not be a story at all. Just a chapter, or a sentence in a book whose greater theme had yet to be determined. Maybe this chapter would've had the faintest whisper of love about it. But maybe not. Sometimes, a girl needs to lose.

How much of your life had been happenstance? How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky? But then, weren't all lives that way? Who could say, in the end, that they had chosen any of it?

It began with a coin toss. The coin came up tails; I was heads.

How much of your life had been a roll of the big polyhedral die in the sky?