Quotes About Chance

It was one of those days when it seemed to James Bond that all life, as someone put it, was nothing but a heap of six to four against.

Who you get, and how it works out- there's so much luck involved, as well as the million branching consequences of your conscious choice of a mate, that no one and no amount of talking can untangle it if it turns out unhappily.

Blind luck, to arrive in the world with your properly formed parts in the right place, to be born to parents who were loving, not cruel, or to escape, by geographical or social accident, war or poverty. And therefore to find it so much easier to be virtuous.

He never believed in fate or providence, or the future being made by someone in the sky. Instead, at every instant, a trillion trillion possible futures; the pickiness of pure chance and physical laws seemed like freedom from the scheming of a gloomy god.

Factory settings—a contemporary synonym for fate.

So, one-third of the time it's a bad idea to move, which means that two-thirds of the time it's a good idea.

Weit hinten in irgend einer Nasenhöhle hatte der Zufall aus Schleim eine zweistimmige Panflöte geformt, der wir gezwungen waren zu lauschen.

Csakhogy egy ilyen város mindig kitermeli az álmatlanjait; maga is álmatlan szervezÅ'dés, örökké éneklÅ' vezetékekkel; sok millió lakója között mindig akadnak olyanok, akik kifelé bámulnak az ablakon; nem pedig alszanak, mint szoktak. És minden éjjel mások. Hogy most éppen Å', és nem más, az merÅ' véletlen.

My own small discovery has been that this change is possible, it is within our power. Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're going to be at peace with each other, I'm not saying it'll happen. There's a good chance it won't. I'm saying it's our only chance.

Se consideraban demasiado complejos para creer en el destino, pero les seguía pareciendo una paradoja que un encuentro tan trascendental hubiera sido fortuito, tan dependiente de cien sucesos y elecciones nimios. Qué posibilidad tan aterradora que pudiera no haberse producido nunca.

Good luck is a skill, and bad luck simply the product of poor choices and overlooked opportunities. In other words, tough luck.

you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

He finished the bandage and was examining it critically. You know those things are unreliable. His voice held just a touch of reproach. "Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

Give me an opportunity to fail, Saiman said. I promise my corpse won't interrupt your 'I told you so' speech.

Fortune favors the brave," I told her. It also kills the stupid, but I decided to keep that fact to myself.

What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

1920 was an auspicious year for a young person to enter the world as an American citizen.

Liverpool give young players a good opportunity.

I know myself that I am a manager who really gives young players a chance when they deserve it.

The advice I would give to young players is always give St Mirren an opportunity.

I wanted to have a label to not only release my own stuff but to also give young talent a chance to release their music without signing away their life. I had a great time with Spinnin', and the people I worked with were amazing, but the contract wasn't really for me. It wasn't what I wanted.

I was the youngest girl among my siblings, a simple village girl, who perhaps was luckier than other siblings as I have the chance to go to school.

The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes.

I don't believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you're spending your time doing something worthwhile.