Quotes About Chance

Nonviolent defiance often risks serious casualities, but it seem to produce far fewer casualitie than when both sides use violence. At the same time, presistence in nonviolent struggle contributes to much greater chance for success than if the resisters had chosen to fight a militarily-prepared opponent violence

The problem with paranoia was that if you let it rule all your decisions, then you would miss some perfectly good opportunities.

Nobody knows how things will turn out, that's why they go ahead and play the game...You give it your all and sometimes amazing things happen, but it's hardly ever what you expect.

Life is amazing, isn't it? You can't ever tell what will happen. Nobody knows until they go ahead and play the game.

There's only one thing I know about life. I know some things happen by chance, And some things happen because we make them happen.

The word risk is a negative one in their vocabulary—it does not connote opportunity or excitement but rather the chance to waste money and time.

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

What is life but a seires of inspired follies The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance it doesn't come every day.

Rome wasn't planned, and neither did it just happen.

Life gives us precious few opportunities to put our best foot forward, so when a chance to shine presents itself, one should always take it.

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.

To Mother no was simply a yes that hadn't had a chance to hear her out.

Some things can come to pass, he reminded himself. Some things are improbable, and some are impossible.

Fate, that bloody, vicious, fickle bitch. Sometimes she loved him, and he could do nothing wrong. And sometimes she stuck a knife in his back.

A coincidence is a small miracle in which God chooses to remain anonymous.

As for coincidences—I like that old saying about them being small miracles in which God chooses to remain anonymous.

But it was just luck really if the girls survived. You're like a man firing a machine gun into a supermarket who happens not to become a murderer.

She has somehow missed the bus of life.

If at that moment Clement had caught sight of the dog and had managed to capture him, the fates of a number of people in this story would have been entirely different. Such is the vast play of chance in human lives.

One must constantly meditate upon the absurdities of chance, a subject even more edifying than the subject of death.

Tae be touched by real love requires great fortune, it's no in your hands.

Fortune is beastly — it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.

There's a certain drama in going down in a good cause. Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the angels sing. But, -Dr. Lamont, to do that one has to have a fighting chance. One has to have something to fight for that may— justmay— win out.