Quotes About Chance

It is better to accept any chance that offers itself, and then extemporise a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it.

En la imperfecta ordenación de las cosas del mundo rara vez surge la criatura invocada; rara vez el hombre digno de ser amado coincide con la hora de amar.

Because it's his bad luck to be the best.

Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth

I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

I firmly believe in luck. And I noticed: the more I work, the luckier I become.

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Men] act in response to an outward situation, and on being presented with an opportunity to conform to a pattern. If the pattern gives licence to cruelty, so much the better. They take advantage of the licence so thoughtlessly, so thoroughly, that it becomes perfectly clear: the generality of mankind are only waiting for the chance, only waiting for outward circumstance to sanction brutality and allow them to be cruel and brutal to their heart's content.

No language meant no chance of co-opting them in to what their round and flaxen invaders were calling Salvation.

it was luck, dumb luck, that had put them each where they were, and the best way to pay for any luck, however temporary, was just to be helpful when you could.

What chance has a lonely surfer boy For the love of a surfer chick, With all these Humbert Humbert cats Coming on so big and sick? For me, my baby was a woman. For him she's just another nymphet.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

All in his life, of what has looked free or random, is discovered to have been under some control. All the time- the same as a fixed roulette wheel.

One of the sweetest fruits of victory, after sleep and looting, must be the chance to ignore no-parking signs.

Jo vair?k dz?voju, jo cieš?k p?rliecinos, ka mums reti tiek dota iesp?ja pašiem izv?l?ties. Dz?v? kaut kas atgad?s, un tad, aiziet, r?kojies. K? nu sp?j...

I was behaving, just like I promised, but fate intervened.

It doesn't come up ever, and yet it comes up always.

Life is all about risks, taking chances. It doesn't matter how safe and comfortable you want things to be. They never are. - Brooke Hart

To me, chance isn't random. The universe is bound by unseen threads. We have only to untangle them a little to see a pattern unfold.

Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic,can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo

You've been given a second chance at true love. Few of us are rarely given even a first chance. If you ruin this, you will be a bigger fool than I could ever imagine. This time when he leaves you, it really will be your fault.

No one knows how to gamble and win, that's why they call it gambling.