Quotes About Chance

On Seeing the 100 Percent Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning" by Haruki Murakami.

Any time you want me, Captain, just phone by Antek, he'll come 'n tell me I got to come down 'n get arrested. I like gettin' locked up now 'n then, it's how a guy stays out of trouble. I'll grab a cab if you're in a real big hurry to pinch me sometime—I don't like bein' late when I got a chance of doin' thirty days for somethin' I never done.

They should have a slot game called Sucker. You get a row of five suckers and the machine kicks you in the nuts and swallows all the coins in your tray.

It was a gambler's action, but his whole life had probably been made up of gambles; it could hardly be otherwise in the outback.

You know, you're a very lucky man." "Why do you say that?" "You've got a full-time job to do.

And in examining their life and deeds it will be seen that they owed nothing to fortune but the opportunity which gave them matter to be shaped into the form that they thought fit; and without that opportunity their powers would have been wasted, and without their powers the opportunity would have come in vain.

Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them.

Nevertheless, not to extinguish our free will, I hold it to be true that Fortune is the arbiter of one-half of our actions, but that she still leaves us to direct the other half, or perhaps a little less.

Frederick the Great was accustomed to say: "The older     one gets the more convinced one becomes that his Majesty     King Chance does three-quarters of the business of this     miserable universe." Sorel

Let's recognize that success in life is a reflection not only of enterprise and willpower but also of chance and early upbringing, and that compassion isn't a sign of weakness but a mark of civilization.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

I think... that when it comes to us, anything is possible.

You know, the smallest thing can change a life. In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - and when you least expect it - since we're on a course that you could have never planned, into a future you never imagined. Where will it take you? That's the journey of our lives: our search for the light. But sometimes, finding the light means you must past through the deepest darkness.

And maybe, just maybe, it will.

Because I knew even then how rare that kind of love is. Only the luckiest people get to experience it at all.

Meeting you and falling in love with you was an experience I would relive a thousand times in a thousand different lives, if I was ever given that chance.

It's strange, I think, the way our lives turn out. Moments of circumstance, when later combined with conscious decisions and actions and a boatload of hope, can eventually forge a future that seems predestined.

Honestly, of the two of us, I was the lucky one.

They're beautiful. How did you know I loved roses? I didn't, but I've never heard of a woman who didn't, so I took a chance. She smiled. So you send lots of women roses? Millions. I have a lot of fans. Dive instructors are almost like movie stars, you know. They are, huh? You mean you didn't know? And here I thought you were just another groupie.

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee, a sort of wager on my part.

I think they've met before, she finally said. Who? Thibault and the loser?

with the possibility that he might never