Quotes About Chance

Many men believe that no life is determined in advance, that all stories are essentially a chain of coincidences. And yet, even those who believe this come to the conclusion, when they look back, that events they once took for chance were really inevitable.

As famílias em que nascemos, os países e as cidades a que a loteria da vida nos destina - devemos supostamente amá-los, e no fim das contas de fato os amamos do fundo do coração, mas será que não merecíamos melhor sorte?

This book is concerned with fate.

We were made to dominate our environment. It was not intended that we should be buffeted about by accident or chance. Our greatest enemies live in our own brains, in our imaginations, in our wrong ideas of life. We were intended to be conquerors instead of slaves and there is no slavery like the slavery to a conviction or a superstition that makes us cowards.

The man without self-reliance and an iron will is the plaything of chance, the puppet of his environment, the slave of circumstances.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the world you'll notice when they have something to teach you.

So I don't even get a chance to learn before I'm being judged.

The univers is statistically more likely to be ironic than not

And yet.. even if you had been right, it would only have been by accident. A broken clock is right two times a day.

I'm just saying that I...I regret that everybody else has nineteen chances, and only I am limited to a single chance for my genes to continue. Because you believe your genes would confer a great blessing upon the human race. Ram thought about this for a moment, I suppose that's what every adolescent male believes with his whole heart.

Nobody has control of anything. We're all beggars at the throne of fate. But sometimes he has mercy!

The boys have to have a chance to be at peace, at rest, without someone listening, to favor or despise them depending on the way they talk act and think.

Someday, they think, I may be like this woman, and I'll hope for forgiveness and another chance.

And it might also be that God had nothing to do with it, that it was just the moment that it would have happened anyway, whether she prayed or not.

One minute Ender is the beginning and end of the world, the best chance for a great man that I'll ever have a chance to find. The next minute, he's a gay little boy who shamed me. You judge hi according to whether or not he's useful to you.

Whatever action you take must be the final action, for you'll get no second chance to surprise the same man.

If there's one thing on this planet you don't look like it's a bunch of good luck walkin around.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.

I got here the same way the coin did.

He is where he is supposed to be. And yet the place he has found is also of his own choosing. That is a piece of luck not to be despised.

She looked away. You make it like it was the coin. But you're the one. It could have gone either way. The coin didn't have no say. It was just you. Perhaps. But look at it my way. I got here the same way the coin did.

Anyway, you never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

His other few possessions lay about in the grotto where chance had arranged them.