Quotes About Chance

Evlilikte mutluluk tümüyle ÅŸans meselesidir. Taraflar birbirlerini gayet iyi tan?salar da, hatta baÅŸtan çok benzer olsalar da, bu, mutluluklar?na en ufak bir katk?da bulunmaz. Sonradan daima deÄŸiÅŸmek için ç?rp?n?r, baÅŸlar?n? derde sokarlar; hayat?n? birlikte geçireceÄŸin kiÅŸinin kusurlar?n? ne kadar az bilirsen o kadar iyidir.

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such young ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time.

I do assure you that I am not one of those young ladies (if such ladies there are) who are so daring as to risk their happiness on the chance of being asked a second time. I am perfectly serious in my refusal.

Pero mientras la gente se deje arrastrar por su imaginación para formarse juicios errados sobre nuestra conducta y la califique basándose en meras apariencias, nuestra felicidad estará siempre a merced del azar

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.

and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time.

Nature can win if we give her a chance.

Absolutely,' I say. 'I do believe in fate, but I also believe that we control our destinies, and I'm not sure which I believe in more. I think that mostly I believe that life is a bit like a tree, and that there are several branches we could take. I think that's where the controlling our own destiny bit comes in. If we choose a certain branch then our life will go one way, and fate will throw things at us from then on.

What you did when you wanted to get away with something was not to plan, but to look for an opportunity

I failed math twice, never fully grasping probability theory. I mean, first off, who cares if you pick a black ball or a white ball out of the bag? And second, if you're bent over about the color, don't leave it to chance. Look in the damn bag and pick the color you want.

God's a busy guy. He don't have time to micromanage. What are the chances he heard that? It's early in the morning. He's probably having breakfast with Mrs. God.

Damn skippy it's a flea collar. I'm not taking no chances.

Maybe that was the only real truth about the world, that there was no answer, that wisdom and experience were no better than a flat-out roll of the dice.

It's a rotten deal, the house always wins. Just sit at the table and play for all you're worth.

Just as your own existence is unlikely and far from inevitable, the evolution of modern humans as a species depended on a whole string of chance events - some happening in the environments our ancestors inhabited, and some inside their own bodies, including random mutations in their DNA.

My life is neither a disaster nor supernatural, yet it is an unlikely event.

The Champions League is so difficult, It's like a lottery: sometimes you're just unlucky.

I don't think I'm an unlucky person.

You're young and you want to play, you have got to make the most of your youth because before you know it, you're 20, 21 or even 25 if you're unlucky, and you're still trialing and hoping to get a chance. And then a lot of people don't take chances on guys who are a little bit older.

Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I've seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.

We live in a land like no other - a land of freedom and opportunity unparalleled on the face of the globe.

I always have a bet at the start of each season, looking at the teams and the squads. I know there's a big element of unpredictability but if you've got your financial structure sorted out you've got a chance.

My favorite characters are always the unpredictable ones, and with Domino, you literally never know which way the dice are going to roll.