Quotes About Chance

The ragman is fate, but you bring him to pass. There's never a rag, but you make it, alas!

Accidents happen all the time.

Sometimes even in the most unfortunate of lives there will occur a moment or two of good fortune.

Look, everybody has a turn, Snicket. Giacomo Casanova had a turn. Marcel Duchamp had a turn. Beverly Cleary had a turn. People have done difficult things for more or less noble reasons. Your turn now.

Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously, because I think our opposition, whoever they may be, in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humor. You know, and we are humorous, we are, what are they, Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

The probable is what usually happens. ~ ARISTOTLE

It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle.

I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed.

But if you believe in coincidence, you probably shouldn't be a cop.

Luck is where hard work meets opportunity.

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.

A Change in life will not always be the Best, but a try to take a Chance for a Better life will be never a Loss in our Life.

You got lucky that time.

It was worth a try.

Still, some things were out of anyone's control.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

If her case was pitiable, his was hopeless. His imprudence had made her miserable for a while; but it seemed to have deprived himself of all chance of ever being otherwise.

I am not one of those young ladies who are so daring to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.

But while the imaginations of other people will carry them away to form wrong judgements of our conduct, and to decide on it by slight appearances, one's happiness must in some measure be always at the mercy of chance.

I honour your circumspection. A fortnight's acquaintance is certainly very little. One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight. But if we do not venture somebody else will; and after all, Mrs. Long and her daughters must stand their chance; and, therefore, as she will think it an act of kindness, if you decline the office, I will take it on myself.