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Quotes About Chance

Fortune's a fickle wench. She can knee you in the groin at any time.
~ Isolde Martyn
Dünyan?n bir taraf?nda bir yerde, bir piyango çekiliyor, sava? yap?l?yor ve hepimizin al?nyaz?s? da böylece uzak­larda belirtiliyordu.
~ Ivo Andri?
Drugi dan, druga i nafaka.
~ Ivo Andri?
Neizvesnost je imanje onih koji nemaju nista i velika nada onih koji nisu navikli na dobro u zivotu. Neizvesnost je za razumne i ponosne ljude ono sto je gatara za budale, slabice i sebicnjake: nagovestava dobro i zlo, pogadja retko, ali zato dopusta sve, i najoprecenije, mogucnosti.
~ Ivo Andri?
Fate rules, Eve. You follow the steps, and you plan and you work, then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us
~ J. D. Robb
Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as accidents, only possibilities and probabilities folded into existence by perception.
~ J. Michael Straczynski
WE HAVE A WHOLE DEPARTMENT THAT LOOKS AFTER HAPPY COINCIDENCES
~ J. Michael Straczynski
i got lucky
~ J.D. Robb
I think possibilities often come unexpectedly, and what you do with them, how much you're willing to risk for them, can change your life and make it more than you ever imagined it could be. You
~ J.D. Robb
I don't know. I never looked." "Now that hurts." With a laugh, Louise leaned back against the counter. "You don't even bother to look, and you end up with Roarke." "He just got in my way. Couldn't get around him, so I figured I might as well keep him.
~ J.D. Robb
You follow the steps, and you plan and you work, then fate slips in laughing and makes fools of us. Sometimes we can trick it or outguess it
~ J.D. Robb
In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for the blink of an eyelid our vigilance relaxes; we are asleep; and when we awake, we have lost the direction of our lives. What are these blinks of an eyelid, against which the only defence is an eternal and inhuman wakefulness? Might they not be the cracks and chinks through which another voice, other voices, speak in our lives? By what right do we close our ears to them?
~ J.M. Coetzee
Das Rechtschreibprogramm kann nicht denken [...]. Wenn Sie es dem Rechtschreibprogramm überlassen, über ihr Leben zu bestimmen, dann könnten Sie auch gleich würfeln.
~ J.M. Coetzee
en cuanto empiece a comprender que el universo, no solo en la esfera de los números, sino en todo, está gobernado por leyes, y que nada ocurre por azar, se calmará y entrará en razón.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Sometimes your hole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. -Lover Awakened
~ J.R Ward
After all, tragedy didn't discriminate, so everyone was subject to the same whims of fate.
~ J.R. Ward
Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.
~ J.R. Ward
Phury glanced at John and thought that sometimes it took only a hairbreadth between cars to avoid a mortal accident. Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine.
~ J.R. Ward
Praying's not going to help. Too late for that, Jane...I gave you a chance to have it on your terms. Now we'll do this on mine
~ J.R. Ward
Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of nanosecond. Or the knock on a door. Kind of made a male believe in the divine. It really did.
~ J.R. Ward
One shot. That was all you got. - Isaac
~ J.R. Ward
At times destiny just drove you to a destination and dropped your ass off and that was that. But on occasion you were able to pick the address. And if you had half a brain, no matter how hard it was or how weird it felt, you went into the house. And found yourself.
~ J.R. Ward
collisions were collisions and couldn't be planned...
~ J.R. Ward
the future was unknown and unknowable. So if you had the chance . . . even if there was no music and no ballgown, no tuxedo or gala . . . when your true love asked you to dance? It was important to say yes.
~ J.R. Ward