Quotes About Chance

We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events.

I dont no what sience is but they all keep saying it so mabye its something that helps you have good luk.

Don't fear failure. Be afraid of not having the chance, you have the chance!

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got the script on Friday, went to the audition on Monday and got the part on Tuesday. I was shooting the pilot a week later. I didn't have time to be nervous – it happened so quickly.

Work is just something I'm doing until I win the lottery.

17. The truth is you don't know what is going to happen tomorrow. Life is a crazy ride, and nothing is guaranteed.

"Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice."

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it.

To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.

Hard work doesn't guarantee success, but improves its chances.

That's what I tell all the kids who come to my summer camps: 'You'll get a shot; it's about what you do with it.'

In order not to annul our free will, I judge it true that Fortune may be mistress of one half our actions but then even she leaves the other half, or almost, under our control.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.

It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

A million coincidences had to occur in order for you to exist

You never know, life is short but it's wide

If ever sorrow and suffering set their profaning marks on the youth and beauty of Miss Fairlie's face, then, and then only, Anne Catherick and she would be the twin-sisters of chance resemblance, the living reflections of one another.

Evil report, with time and chance to help it, travels patiently, and travels far.

the harder the struggle for existence among the men and women about us, the less the risk of their having the time or taking the pains to notice chance strangers who came among them.

Fear of death, wonder at the causes of chance events or unintelligible happenings, hope for divine aid and gratitude for good fortune, cooperated to generate religious belief.

If Cleopatra's nose, said Pascal, had been an inch longer or shorter, all history would have been changed.

That's all your life amounts to in the end: the aggregate of all the good luck and the bad luck you experience. Everything is explained by that simple formula. Tot it up – look at the respective piles. There's nothing you can do about it: nobody shares it out, allocates it to this one or that, it just happens. We must quietly suffer the laws of man's condition, as Montaigne says.