Quotes About Chance

Will I be sensible and pay off the mortgage? Not a chance.

If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.

If I look back, I think most of the things I did - the films, the books, the collaborations with these magazines - were mostly by accident.

I think there was an opportunity as Bad News Barrett to turn me in to a babyface. I am not saying that I would have gotten to the level The Rock got to but it was certainly a chance for me to do something different and keep me motivated and stimulated by what I was doing on the show.

Out of the nameless and unfathomed weavings of billion-footed life, out of the dark abyss of time and duty, blind chance had brought these two together on a ship, and their first meeting had been upon the timeless and immortal seas that beat forever at the shores of the old earth.

Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas.

A destiny that leads the English to the Dutch is strange enough; but one that leads from Epsom into Pennsylvania, and thence into the hills that shut in Altamont over the proud coral cry of the cock, and the soft stone smile of an angel, is touched by that dark miracle of chance which makes new magic in a dusty world.

The longer a war lasts, the more things tend to depend on accidents. Neither you nor we can see into them: We have to abide their outcome in the dark.

hope is by nature an expensive commodity, and those who are risking their all on one cast find out what it means only when they are already ruined;

And Tracy was young, just twenty, still wet behind the ears, and the old blinders were on him so he couldn't really see what was around and he believed the bull about freedomofopportunity and a chancetorise and ifyoureallywanttoworkyoucanalwaysfindajob and ruggedindividualism and something about pursuitofhappiness.

Death came, in such a place, or it didn't. That was in God's hands.

Just the way it never rains when you have an umbrella, you'll never run into people if you look fantastic. But go outside in pajamas, and you'll run into every ex you have.

Permaina adalah uraian matrmatis dari hubungan antara strategi-strategi dan kemungkinan hasil-hasilnya.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

And who is this Maître Carrefour?" "Hm? Oh, that's our old friend Mate Care-For. Thatch just pronounces it right. It means master of the crossroads. Master of different possibilities, in other words—of chance.

For a change, Lady Luck seemed to be smiling on me. Then again, maybe the fickle wench was just lulling me into a false sense of security while she reached for a rock.

But Lando was a gambler. A true gambler never folded when he still had cards left to play.

what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

On the other hand, I've found that what most people call luck is often little more than raw talent combined with the ability to make the most of opportunities.

Chance is a funny thing. A fat one and a slim one are the same thing.

You might get lucky and die in some corner. ~Soi Fon

It is not a story of brilliant achievement, heroic deeds, or noble sacrifice. It is a story of blind stumbling and chance discovery, of groping in the dark and refusing to admit the light. It is a story replete with obscurantism and prejudice, of sound judgement often eclipsed by loyalty to tradition, and of reason long held subservient to custom. In short, it is a human story

coincidence they're there. They don't seem