Quotes About Chance

But I don't feel as if a black cloud hangs over my head. I've had a lot of good luck too, you see. I like to think so, anyway." Dougal

And opportunities are like stories in books," I retorted. "All we need do is pick one.

We cannot fight fortuna, only try to anticipate her whims and, if we're lucky, bend her to our will.

In MIT lore, it's generally believed that this haphazard combination of different disciplines, thrown together in a large reconfigurable building, led to chance encounters and a spirit of inventiveness that generated breakthroughs at a fast pace, innovating topics as diverse as Chomsky grammars, Loran navigational radars, and video games, all within the same productive postwar decades.

We are not obligated to provide everyone who comes to this country with a good life," Morgan went on. "We are obligated to provide them with a chance to attain that life, through discipline and hard work. That chance is more than they have anywhere else. That is why they keep coming.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Saying that you want to be a model when you grow up is akin to saying that you want to win the Powerball when you grow up. It's out of your control and it's awesome — and it's not a career path.

We do not shoot craps with human teeth.

El dinero no es fácil de encontrar, Victorita lo sabe muy bien. Hace falta suerte. Todo lo demás lo puede poner uno de su parte, pero la suerte no.

When God works in our lives, those without faith like to call it chance. Those who believe call it a miracle. I don't know where you land on that scale, but I'm suggesting God is not as distant as you may believe.

Chance is unceasingly at work in our lives," Churchill would write years later, thinking back on Grenfell and the fate that might have been his, "but we cannot always see its workings sharply and clearly defined.

Although Churchill was quick to believe every good thing ever said about his potential, he wasn't willing to leave anything to chance.

It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

Las ocasiones llegan tarde o temprano, sólo hay que tener la paciencia de esperarlas y buen ojo de saber reconocerlas cuando se presentan.

It is analogous to hooking someone up to life-support systems when he has no quality of life and no chance for survival. Though some may believe this extends the process of life, it actually extends the process of death.

You never know about the deaths you didn't die: the mountain peaks you missed, the collisions that didn't happen. It's a warm, cosy feeling. It's the way the airlines fly.

The odds are great, so great as to be almost impossible. But they are no greater than the odds against a soul landing in a human incarnation. And you," Rinpoche was staring right at me, "you have beaten those odds. And so I ask you, what are you going to do with this opportunity?

Part of me knows one more day won't do anything except postpone the heartbreak. But another part of me believes differently. We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

Barrel of the gun, rounds one two three She says I have to pick: choose you, or choose me Metal to the temple, the explosion is deafening Lick the blood that covers me She's the last one standing "Roulette" Collateral Damage, Track 11

Accidents. It's all about the accidents.

I think everything is happening all the time, but if you don't put yourself in the path of it, you miss it. When you travel, you put yourself out there. It's not always great. Sometimes it's terrible. But other times ... [...] It's not so bad.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

You meet people, you part ways, sometimes you cross paths again. Mostly, you don't.

Tal vez accidente no es la palabra correcta después de todo. Tal vez milagro lo es. O tal vez no es un milagro. Tal vez es solo vida. Cuando te abres a ella. Cuando te pones en su camino. Cuando dices que sí.