Quotes About Chance

Me I was always lucky. My whole life. I wouldnt be here otherwise. Scrapes I been in. But the day I seen her come out of Kerr's Mercantile and cross the street and she passed me and I tipped my hat to her and got just almost a smile back, that was the luckiest.

Call it, friend-O (No Country For Old Men)

Mi sono sempre chiesta se la piega presa dalla nostra vita esiste fin dall'inizio se invece la vita è fatta di eventi casuali nei quali individuiamo un filo solo a posteriori

I've no sympathy with people to whom things happen. It may be that their luck is bad, but is that to count in their favor? I

People prefer fate to chance.

Fate can be appeased, gods prayed to. But chance is just what it says.

There's no way to answer that question. My friend John maintains that if things are going reasonably well it's all your own doing and if not then it's all bad luck.

if things are going reasonably well it's all your own doing and if not then it's all bad luck.

In our choices lie our fate.

Most people who hope have their hopes dashed. That's realism, but everyone whose hopes weren't dashed started off by having hope. Hope's the price of admission.

Hicke hade tagit liknande språng i hela sitt liv, språng undan faror, språng ut i det okända, språng utan skyddsnät. Hicke hade alltid litat på turen och på förvissningen om att världen i grund och botten var vänligt inställd till honom (s. 224, 226).

I'm old enough to know that sometimes you don't get a second chance.

Sometimes it amazes me how much these defining parts of our lives hinge on chance.

If you're our age and single, dating kind of has to be an act of reckless optimism, right? The triumph of hope over experience?

I will not be the one it happens to - this is what we all believe, what we must believe to make our way in the world each day. Someone else. Not me. But every once in a while it is you, or someone close enough that it might as well be you. People to whom a terrible thing has never happened trust fate, the notion that what's meant to be will be; the rest of us know better.

A rune for the very bored: when very bored say to yourself: It was during the next twenty minutes that there occurred one of those tiny incidents which revolutionizes the whole course of our life and alter the face of history. Truly we are the playthings of enormous fates.

It is not who begets us, that matters, but where fate places us.

Destiny is not a matter of chance. It is a matter of choice.

Il destino mischia le carte, ma siamo noi a giocare la partita. Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game.

Destiny shuffles the cards, but we are the ones who must play the game

It's just a coincidence, I guess, but just the day before at the dry cleaner's, one of our customers, Mrs. Chudy, said to me- I forget what we were even talking about, but she said, My dear, there are no coincidences. That's just God's way of remaining anonymous. And I was like, to myself not to her, yeah? How do you know? But hey, maybe she's right.

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.

Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die

Fascism attempts to organize the newly created proletarian masses without affecting the property structure which the masses strive to eliminate. Fascism sees its salvation in giving these masses not their right, but instead a chance to express themselves