Quotes About Chance

I don't know what the average allotment of good luck in a life is or should be — it's an unanswerable question, and doubtless there is no 'should' in it anyway — but I do know that she was part of my good luck.

They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan. STILL

They learned that some people are born luckier than others and that things in this world do not always go as you plan.

Of course, every story always begins with such a coincidence.

Wherever you are is the entry point

No one deserves good or evil fortune, said Lady Beatrice. Things simply happen and one survives them the best one can.

He was the only one interested in me. Of course he isn't, Steve said. Practically every boy in the school would want a chance to... ow, Maisy! Sorry, my elbow slipped.

Volgens de wet van de grote getallen slaat het bizarre altijd wel een keer toe, als de steekproef maar groot genoeg is.

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all. To

This was the beginning of something that might lead to everything or nothing at all.

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

A coincidence is just an explanation waiting to happen

There was now and it was followed by another now. If you were lucky.

No point in thinking," she said briskly, "you just have to get on with life." (She really was turning into Miss Woolf.) "We only have one after all, we should try and do our best. We can never get it right, but we must try." (The transformation was complete.) "What if we had a chance to do it again and again," Teddy said, "until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?" "I think it would be exhausting.

Was there a kind of lottery (Reggie imagined a raffle) where God picked out your chosen method of going—"Heart attack for him, cancer for her, let's see, have we had a terrible car crash yet this month?

She seemed to have no inkling that life wasn't as orderly as her pencil case and that everything is chance and at any moment any number of remarkable things can happen that are totally beyond our control, events that rip up our maps and re-polarize our compasses - the madwoman walking towards us, the train falling off the bridge, the boy on the bicycle.

Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

Mens fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

I'm not a betting man.

For rarely man escapes his destiny. [It., Che l'uomo il suo destin fugge di raro.]