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Quotes About Chance

Luck never gives; it only lends.
~ Swedish Proverb
Trent I'm telling you baby, you always double down on 11.
~ Swingers
I don't believe in luck.' 'Then it's for blessings. God gives us children in blessings. It's never by chance.' - Charisse & Nevada, Ch. 33
~ Sylvia Hubbard
Ah, life's little surprises! They can make any day unforgettable... or make it your last.
~ T.A. Barron
A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation
~ Tahir Shah
Fate is fate," Stark said. "It's there. It doesn't change. We just don't see it until we walk into it. Or it walks into us.
~ Takashi Matsuoka
The button developed a life of its own, swollen with symbolism, a single chance at salvation pulsing redly in the corner and if I blew it too soon or left it too late then I was lost.
~ Tana French
The tricky shiver in the air was a reminder: everything you believe is up for grabs, every ground rule can change on a moment's whim, and the dealer always, always wins.
~ Tana French
He can't shake the feeling that some emergency is heading towards him, someone is in danger, and he needs to keep all his wits about him to have a chance of fixing things.
~ Tana French
Over time, the ghosts of things that happened start to turn distant; once they've cut you a couple of million times, their edges blunt on your scar tissue, they wear thin. The ones that slice like razors forever are the ghosts of things that never got the chance to happen.
~ Tana French
in exposing vulnerability we are always taking a chance and sometimes might get hurt ... the greater hurt, the real suffering, is in staying armored and isolated.
~ Tara Brach
every second of the day offers a beautiful opportunity to achieve success. Therefore, you have 86,400 chances to change your life every day.
~ Tash Aw
Looking at both the substantial and contributory causes together and knowing that it is a combination of both that has created the situation gives us a chance to explore more realistic ways to approach our problems.
~ Tashi Tsering
Much of life is timing and circumstance, I see that now.
~ Tayari Jones
He used to say, 'Accident of birth is the number one predictor of happiness.
~ Tayari Jones
What right did my father have to the details of my life? He squandered his chance to be the protective father. You can't come rushing to the rescue six months later. I wasn't a person to be saved only when it was a convenient time to swoop in.
~ Tayari Jones
Accident of birth is the number one predictor of happiness.' Once
~ Tayari Jones
The prospect of living without interference, living in a world where windfalls and misfortunes were never by design, held no terror for him.
~ Ted Chiang
at the door.
~ Ted Halstead
When you shoot a special, you have no idea what's going to happen, and the fact that I got to do the first one with Comedy Dynamics was a roll of the dice. It was a game changer for me professionally.
~ Tom Segura
I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and they have a chance in the afterlife to do something they should have done when they were alive.
~ Gil Scott-Heron
Ian Fleming was my cousin, and he wanted me to play Dr. No, but by the time he got around to remembering to tell the producers, they'd already cast someone else. Spilt milk!
~ Christopher Lee
I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.
~ Paul Muni
When you spin a globe and point to a city and actually go to that city, you build an allowance of missed opportunities on the back end.
~ Sloane Crosley