Quotes About Chance

Torschlusspanik," Simon said. "Okay," Sam said. "I'll bite." "Don't encourage him," Ant said. "What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,'" Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

Estamos todos vivendo, no máximo, metade de uma vida, pensou. Havia a vida que você viveu, que consistia das escolhas que você fez. E aí havia outra vida, aquela das coisas que você não tinha escolhido. E às vezes aquela outra vida parecia tão palpável quanto a que você estava vivendo.

If it doesn't work, all we've lost is a lot of time and money." Sam laughed. "Let's do this," he said.

The best part of this moment, he thought, is that everything is still possible.

What's Torschlusspanik?" Sam said. "It means 'gate-shut panic,' " Simon said. "It's the fear that time is running out and that you're going to miss an opportunity. Literally, the gate is closing, and you'll never get in.

And sometimes, you get an extra life. But you might kill yourself trying to get the extra life, so it's not always worth it.

En su opinión, con solo que la gente diera una oportunidad a muchas cosas, se resolverían la mayoría de sus problemas.

The best part of this moment is that everything is still possible.

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

Today like every day roughly 5,000 people on the face of the planet will experience one-chance-in-a-million things and not one of them will refuse to believe the evidence of their senses.

I believe in science but I also believe in fate.

Mucizeler inanmad?m hiç, kadere inanmad???m gibi; ama ümitsiz bir durumdaysan?z , mucizelerden baÅŸka ümit baÄŸlayaca??n?z ne kal?r?

Rose, the moon is incredible. Everything down on Earth relies on it. Rats jump for it. Tides rush out from it. Humans kiss under it. Without it there'd be nothing down there worth the light. And that just happened by chance -trillions of odd against it- one bit of stardust meets another bit of dust.

When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover.

Here's the truth: not everyone will, but anyone can.

Lucky come Hawai'i." History

Nothing may happen without wyrd, for it is present in everything, but wyrd does not make things happen. Wyrd is created at every instant and so wyrd is the happening.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

For you know that you can get nothing more out of this lifetime. When you have time, when you have had the time to rest and re-energize your soul, you are allowed to choose your re-entry back into the physical state. Those people who hesitate, who are not sure of their return here, they might lose the chance that was given them, a chance to fulfill what they must when they're in physical state." I

It is hard to say what will happen to the people that pass in and out of life. A simple cab driver can be just a driver, or he can be the love of one's life. A woman on the street waiting for a ride could become a passenger, or something much deeper. In the end, you never know who you will meet or where.

For life, with all it yields of joy and woe, And hope and fear, -- believe the aged friend -- Is just a chance o' the prize of learning love.

Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on many essentials, they can only come to and stay in power if they figure out the right basket of public goods to provide.

The difference between an expert and a novice fighter is that the expert makes use of each opportunity

Was auch immer ihre Beweggründe waren - klug oder unklug, davonrennen oder oder nach Neuem suchen-, es erforderte Mut und Entschlossenheit und das Bedürfnis nach einer letzten Chance, um an die Zukunft zu glauben.