Quotes About Chance

Evolution was a random walk across a minefield, not a pre-ordained trajectory, onward and upward toward "perfection.

Everyone had to carve a life out of the same legacy: half universal, half particular; half sharpened by relentless natural selection, half softened by the freedom of chance.

History can't harm you; the "chance" of having survived the last x minutes is one hundred per cent, once you've done it. As the unknowable future becomes the unchangeable past, risk must collapse into certainty, one way or another.

Murphy's Law doesn't mean bad stuff will happen," he explained gently, really wanting her to understand. "It means 'whatever can happen… will happen.' And that sounded just fine to us.

As for those forwards who remain on the ice for too long, we'll pass the mic to venerable blogger Tyler Dellow: "Being on the ice after a minute is sort of like being in a bar after 1:00 am—there's no guarantee that something bad will happen, it's possible that something good will happen, but the odds are slanted heavily in favor of something bad.

extravagance is partly a reaction to the decades of Soviet austerity, when wallets and purses were immediately emptied whenever their owners spied something worth buying in the knowledge that another chance would be unlikely to materialize

Il suffit d'un instant. Un regard. Une rencontre. Pour bouleverser une existence. La bonne personne, le bon moment. Le caprice complice du hasard.

Å ta je potrebno da se propusti ljubav? Nekoliko sekundi, oklijevanje, Å¡ansa...

Nijedno od njih dvoje ne vjeruje u sudbinu.Vjeruju samo u slu?ajnost,koja je barem ovaj put u?inila nešto dobro.

Na kraju krajeva, možda ništa nije potpuno slu?ajno. Možda se neki doga?aji moraju dogoditi, pošto-poto.

Da bi se stiglo do sre?e, treba rizikovati nesre?u. ~ Boris Sirilnik ~

Ponekad, za životni uspeh nije potrebno mnogo: susret, odluka, šansa... Šta je potrebno da se propusti ljubav? Nekoliko sekundi, oklevanje, šansa...

Možda ništa nije potpuno slu?ajno Možda se neki doga?aji moraju zbiti, pošto-poto. Kao da su ve? zapisani u nekakvoj knjizi sudbine. Poput munje koja je bljesnula još u davna vremena i za koju se oduvijek znalo gdje i kada ?e udariti...

Dans toutes les vies, même les plus merdeuses, le ciel te donne au moins une fois une vraie chance de faire basculer ton destin. Le kairos, c'est la capacité à savoir saisir cette perche que la vie te tend.

He was given one more chance, invited back for a third day. The coach moved him into central midfield where, suddenly, Pep was a magnet for the ball, directing the forward play and dictating tempo. He'd done enough. Barcelona decided they wanted him to join them.

Os outros eu conheci por acaso. Você eu encontrei porque era preciso.

That's real money you're risking now. It's called gambling.

Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

It's the simple truth that mortal men cannot understand why the gods shape events as they do. Why some men and women are cut off in fullest flower, while others live to dwindle into shadows of themselves. Why virtue must sometimes be trampled and evil flourish amidst the beauty of a country garden. Why chance, sheer random chance, plays such an overwhelming role in the life lines and fate lines of men.

What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?

I haven't always found that it is our intentions, the decisions we make, that shape and guide our lives. The opposite, just as often, it seems to me. Impulse creates our stories, or chance, the entirely unforeseen. And what we remember of our own past can be unpredictable. I didn't learn this at school in Avegna, but I think Guarino would have agreed.

Change and chance are the way of the world.

A good idea is about ten percent and implementation and hard work, and luck is 90 percent.

That was something else I'd learned from Homer—sometimes, to get the things that were good in life, you had to make a blind leap.