Quotes About Chance

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice.

Older women especially saw Hillary Clinton as their last and best chance to see a woman in the White House. And not just any woman:7 as one said, "This isn't just about biology. We don't want a Margaret Thatcher, who cut off milk for schoolchildren.

Glynnis Campbell

We are at more risk of waiting for opportunity while, without our knowledge, it awaits us and at less risk of waiting for opportunity while it remains beyond our reach.

It isn't really important to decide when you are very young just exactly what you want to become when you grow up. It is much more important to decide on the way you want to live. If you are going to be honest with yourself and honest with your friends, if you are going to get involved in causes which are good for others, not only for yourselves, then it seems to me that that is sufficient, and maybe what you will be is only a matter of chance.

The guy who takes a chance, who walks the line between the known and unknown, who is unafraid of failure, will succeed.

There were no violins or warning bells... no sense that my little life was about to change. But we never know, do we? Life turns on a dime.

Purple is the soul-lifter Red, the flame of passion Yellow, the light of warmth Green, vibrant stem of life Pink, a whisper of beauty Orange beckons, take a chance Blue is the sea tide in us all

It is a piece of luck to have relations scarce.

In a bet there is a fool and a thief.

In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge — nothing ever hits there.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

POKER, n. A game said to be played with cards for some purpose to this lexicographer unknown.

Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomized life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.

How strange and changeful is life! How small a thing is needed to make or ruin us!

Had the cub thought in man-fashion, he might have epitomised life as a voracious appetite and the world as a place wherein ranged a multitude of appetites, pursuing and being pursued, hunting and being hunted, eating and being eaten, all in blindness and confusion, with violence and disorder, a chaos of gluttony and slaughter, ruled over by chance, merciless, planless, endless.

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Life's a game and men the gamblers. They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. Take away that one chance, and - they won't play.

This out of all will remain – They have lived and have tossed: So much of the game will be gain, Though the gold of the dice has been lost.

Those were their cards and they had to play them, willy-nilly, hunchbacked or straight backed, crippled or clean-limbed, addle-pated or clear-headed. There was no fairness in it. The cards most picked up put them into the sucker class; the cards of a few enabled them to become robbers. The playing of the cards was life—the crowd of players, society. The table

Every job you take is a gamble that could increase your options or shut them down.

So what? You're no worse off than if you hadn't asked. At least this way you give yourself a fifty-fifty chance

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I reckon, Billy, that there's such a thing as serendipity, that if you are meant to move on, you will. And I believe that if you imagine, and keep on imagining, a better life for your family, then events will conspire to present the opportunity to you. And when that time comes, you will make your decision, one way or another." "Bit of a gamble, though, ain't it?" "So is staying in one spot." Epilogue