Quotes About Chance

They came out into the sunshine and the wind, one after the other like dice falling from a cup.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

The probability of a certain set of circumstances coming together in a meaningful (or tragic) way is so low that it simply cannot be considered mere coincidence.

Because the year has 8,760 hours, this average mortality prorates to 0.000001 or 1 × 10–6 deaths per person per hour of living. This means that the average additional chance of dying while flying is just 5/1,000th of the risk of simply being alive. Smoking risks are 100 times as high; ditto for driving in a car. In short, flying has never been safer.

In jedem menschlichen Wesen auf dieser weiten, komplizierten Welt ruht eine erstaunliche Anlage zur Größe. Doch nur selten haben diese verborgenen Gaben die Gelegenheit, sich zu entfalten. Manchmal ist es allein der Zufall des Schicksals.

In real life, you only get one shot at the homicide crime scene.

Man is at the mercy of events. Life is a perpetual succession of events, and we must submit to it. We never know from what quarter the sudden blow of chance will come. Catastrophe and good fortune come upon us and then depart, like unexpected visitors. They have their own laws, their own orbits, their own gravitational force, all independent of man.

There are instincts which respond to all the chance meetings in life. The little girl was not afraid.

Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.

Be born with a silver spoon in your mouth! everything lies in that. Be lucky, and you will have all the rest; be happy, and people will think you great.

What is Waterloo? A victory? No. The winning number in the lottery.

He asked himself... whether it was not outrageous for society to treat thus precisely those of its members who were the least well endowed in the division of goods made by chance, and consequently the most deserving of consideration.

plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

Hay encuentros que nos ligan, y casualidades que nos impulsan por el camino del deber.

Annie had made so many mistakes, and most of them had been because she'd planted herself firmly in the middle of the road. But now she knew that life without risk was impossible, and if by chance you stumbled across a safe, serene existence, it was because you'd never really reached for anything in the first place.

have an opportunity to make

out of her bag and slid it across the desk. "That's why I'm giving Noah this one opportunity to save his grade. If he'll fill this journal

Life turns on the decisions we make, the single moments that transform everything.

But fate is part chance and part choice,

But you never know what will happen tomorrow, or the next day. One day, one week, one month can change everything.

Sometimes great risks require a little bit of stupid.

People think of life as being so sacred and they feel like this is their only chance and they have to do something with their life and make an impact As far as I'm concerned, it's just a pitstop for the afterlife. It's just a little test to see how you can handle reality.

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

All persons, living or dead, are purely coincidental, and should not be construed.