Quotes About Chance

And I believe him. For the first moment since the Prophet has made his announcement, I feel like maybe, maybe, I have a chance. (44)

I know one thing -- I don't understand it. Will Adam's survival, or Morris's, depend on something little like that? Like a toss of a coin? It makes me feel like everything must be terribly important, even the toss of a coin, or nothing is important, and we may as well not care about anything.

Life is an endless recruiting of witnesses. It seems we need to be observed in our postures of extravagance or shame, we need attention paid to us. Our own memory is altogether too cherishing, which is the kindest thing I can say for it. Other are required, other perspectives, but even so our most important ceremonies – birth, love, and death – are secured by whomever and whatever is available. What chance, what caprice!

is that you only get one life. We pass this way just once, Fay. Make the most of it.

was Aristotle who said it: "All human actions have one or more of seven causes," and then he named them: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

alea iacta est: 'the die is cast'.

When opportunity knocks, you don't leave it standing on the doorstep. You invite it in and feed it chocolate cake.

hard work never killed anyone... but why take a chance?

She had been given the opportunity to participate in civilization, and she muffed it.

They were at the wrong place at the wrong time naturally they became heroes

It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.

Every battle is a gamble, Snow. The man who does nothing also takes a risk.

Not all risks lead to ruin.

It's not a career for anyone who needs or values security. It's a career for gamblers. Every time you write a book you roll the dice again.

Every choice had its risks, every choice its consequences. He would play the game to its conclusion.

Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared. a

Good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.

There is no such thing as luck, merely opportunity meeting preparedness. George S. Patton Jr.

What religion a man shall have is a historical accident, quite as much as what language he shall speak.

I appreciate failure. Failure means that an attempt was made, and a lesson can be learned. As long as we're alive after the effort, there is a chance for success the next time around.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

What is the use of working out chances? There are no chances against God.

You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it is. Creeps up behind him, and puts him in the basket when he ain't expecting it.

Later he couldn't even remember who was the one who had come up with the life-saving (or so he thought then) idea of inventing shared memories, to make up a whole life together before and after their meeting. A pathetic attempt to take revenge on merciless chance that had brought them together, only to separate them.