Quotes About Chance

But you grab a moment, or you let it pass. He let it pass.

Fairness does not govern life and death.

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself."   —

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

El universo es demasiado armonioso, magnífico y abrumador para creer que sólo es una casualidad.

el universo es demasiado armonioso, magnífico y abrumador para pensar que sólo es una casualidad.»

It is never too late or

Qual é o significado de tudo isso? Qual o objetivo dessa tristeza toda? Deve ter algum propósito, ou então o universo é governado pelo acaso. Mas qual é o propósito?

Because it shortens the odds against us," said Sandor. "It affords us the opportunity to take control. Because what we do not know controls us.

Se parece a lo que Dostoievski escribió sobre el juego. Es decir, cuando a tu alrededor todo son oportunidades, es muy difícil pasar de largo sin aprovecharlas.

Nothing happens by chance. This is a world of order and laws.

When a coin is minted, the devil kisses it.

Life is a gamble and sometimes when you gamble you win.

We're cannon fodder, and human shields, and useful new blood, and minions, and janitors and maids, and thanks to all the work the losers in here do trying to get into an alliance and an enclave after, the enclave kids get extra sleep and extra food and extra help, more than if it was only them in here. And we all get the illusion of a chance. But the only chance they're really giving us is the chance to be useful to them.

We all have to gamble with our lives in here, we don't get a choice about that; the trick is figuring out when it's worth taking a bet.

And we all get the illusion of a chance. But the only chance they're really giving us is the chance to be useful to them.

Well, luck is nothing to sneeze at, either; we would not get very far if luck were against us

I suppose I should've felt sorry for her, but I'd rather be sorry for someone who never had luck at all than for someone whose extreme luck ran out unexpectedly.

Opportunity...it often comes disguised in the form of misfortune or temporary defeat.

Over-caution is as bad as under-caution. Both are extremes to be guarded against. Life itself is filled with the element of chance.

OVER-CAUTION. The person who takes no chances, generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing. Over-caution is as bad as under-caution. Both are extremes to be guarded against. Life itself is filled with the element of chance.

Presents are delivered from the sky, in every package a prize, a chance, to choke, to suffocate, to forget, yes to forget every last word ever spoken of man higher in the scale than animal creation, the gorilla and the tiger being mere beasts while man has shrines, altars, lights, books awarding him personal immortality, books not yet banned nor burned.

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

Yo creo que nada sucede por casualidad, ¿sabes? Que, en el fondo, las cosas tienen su plan secreto, aunque nosotros no lo entendamos.