Quotes About Chance

The size of the experiment should have been limited in proportion to the risk-adjusted potential of the opportunity.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

Life is an inconstant mix of aces and jokers, and often one is flipped face up when we're expecting the other.

Luck never gives; it only lends.

Luck has a peculiar habit of connecting with the man on the move...

I remembered Tucker telling me that luck was no lady; luck was a mean drunk who didn't know when to stop punching.

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because, when opportunity knocks, they are out looking for four-leaf clovers.

Every day is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.

Sometimes the universe throws a handful of glittering opportunity into the air. If it falls upon you, dance! Then get to work.

Prose is too coarse, too heavy for romance — We need poetry for love & all things of chance.

Religion considers the Universe deterministic and science considers it probabilistic — an important distinction.

There is some chance of my retiring... And yet, though I thought such a proposal when first made was like a Pisgah peep of Paradise, I cannot help being a little afraid of changing the habits of a long life all of a sudden and for ever...

The more chance there is of stubbing your toe, the more chance you have of stepping into success.

The universe always wagers — life is risk.

Chance takers are accident makers.

When you gamble with safety, you bet your life.

The safest risk is the one you didn't take.

It cannot be denied, but outward accidents conduce much to fortune; favour, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue: but chiefly, the mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands: "Faber quisque fortunæ suæ," saith the poet...

A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive. And among that billion minus one Might have chanced to be Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne; But the One was Me.

Not because she read my name on an anonymous posting board, but because I was in Paris and had seen Moulin Rouge far too many times to let such an opportunity go to waste.

Today will never come again. Grace Yoakum

But there are times in life when a door opens and you are offered a glimpse of the light on the water, and you know that if you don't take it, that door slams shut, and maybe forever. Maybe you fool yourself into thinking that you had a choice at all; maybe you were always going to say yes. Maybe refusing was no more a choice than is holding your breath. You were always going to breathe. You were always going to say yes.

Without a degree of risk, there is little chance for the enormous mixture of relief and achievement that follows in its steps. It is the leap that goes on to support even greater attempts at the seemingly impossible challenges that the world often uses to sort the men from the boys, and of course, the women from the girls!

Coincidence is not a word in the vocabulary of believers. 3-28-08