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Quotes About Chance

You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac — with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s intact.
~ J. D. Salinger
Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.
~ James Russell Lowell
Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.
~ Jeaniene Frost
The Captain just gave us our orders, and Mom we must carry them through. I'll finish this letter first chance I get, but for now I'll just say I love you.
~ Merle Haggard
Every single moment is a coincidence.
~ Douglas Coupland
My mom and dad put my brother and sister through university and they were very keen for us to have an academic background just to give us a chance.
~ Rob James-Collier
I got a lot of grief from my teammates about that. It might backfire on my mom. Hopefully, my brother will have another chance somewhere down the road.
~ Scott Niedermayer
You cannot beat a roulette table unless you steal money from it.
~ Albert Einstein
Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.
~ Norm MacDonald
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Ain't only three things to gambling: knowing the 60-40 end of the proposition, money management, and knowing yourself.
~ Puggy Pearson
You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.
~ Bert Ambrose
Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.
~ Ambrose Bierce
To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never face the facts.
~ Ruth Gordon
True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.
~ John Hay
Saw that I could make more money in one pot than what was in that entire paycheck selling a week of office supplies
~ Doyle Brunson
My money's riding on this dark horse, baby My heart is sayin' it's the lucky one And its true color's gonna shine through someday If we let this Let this dark horse run
~ Amanda Marshall
The year I married my American husband, I won the lottery - and I tried to give it to somebody else, because I was already approved - not the money lottery, the immigration lottery.
~ Catherine O'Hara
If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Horse racing is animated roulette.
~ Roger Kahn
Money can't buy off the lightning.
~ Stephen King
I'm afraid a lot of people have lost a lot of money over the years betting on me.
~ Richard Flanagan
Most amusements only mean trying to win another person's money.
~ Rudyard Kipling
If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.
~ Steve Albini