Quotes About Chance

It's hard to tell them apart, what we bring upon ourselves and what destiny determines.

Fortune has hair in front but is bald behind.

No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive.

You needed a good roll of the dice, a lucky draw of the cards, and some smarts, but if things went your way and you gave it your all, anyone could win.

On the topic of winning, and the lottery: You can't lose if you don't play, therefore not losing , is winning!

I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick with it long enough. Either way, imagine what you might be able to learn in the process - about the work, and yes, of yourself too.

We get one shot at this thing called life. Let's make it matter.

I used to sports gamble a lot and I was getting killed on that but then I found poker and really enjoyed it. But it was a hobby more than anything else. I played it every day but only on pretty small stakes.

You've been handed a chance in life, and I want you to grab it with both hands and not look back.

What a live person can tell, being alive, would finally kill a dead person: flippancy. Therefore, one cannot, unfortunately, cling to the facts, which are too mixed up with chance and don't tell much.

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again.

You were given a gift. You were given the chance to see who you were, to learn from mistakes, and to change and grow. Few are granted such insight.

My entire life has felt like chance. Random moments of loss and connection. This is the first one that feels, instead, like fate.

think, again, of my mother opening her front door to a Swedish sailor, the stuff of fairy tales: Rapunzel letting down her hair, Cinderella sliding her foot into the glass slipper, Sleeping Beauty awaiting a kiss. All were given one chance to step into a happily ever after—or at least it must've seemed that way. But was it the prince who attracted them, or merely the opportunity for escape?

All were given one chance to step into a happily ever after- or at least it must have seemed that way. But was it the prince who attracted them, or merely the opportunity to escape?

Do you believe in fate?" I ask. "What's that again?" "That everything is decided. You're just—you know—living it out.

Siento que toda mi vida ha sido un azar. Momentos fortuitos de pérdida y conexión. En cambio, esta es la primera vez que siento que es el destino.

What luck have I? I don't suppose you'll be anything but a cheap little accountant yourself—you haven't any chance to make money with a father like that.

Let us consider an even simpler example of a random variable, the number obtained when you throw just one die. (Pedantic note : this is the singular of the word whose plural is dice. Two dice, one die. Like two mice, one mie.)(Well, two mice, one mouse. Like two hice, one house. Peculiar language, English.)

I don't believe in life after death. But I do believe in some grinding destiny that watches over us on earth. If I didn't, the safety valve would give and the boiler would explode.

Randomness It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge. —MARQUIS DE LAPLACE A

Some things happen only once, twice in a lifetime. The world is full of signs and wonders that come, and go, and if you are lucky you might be alive to see them.

He had been there to warn Dutka's wife and boy. It was an idea of his own, but it worked. They got away." "The captain? Thaddeus?" "The Germans were still searching when I left. The searchlights had been brought up." "There's a chance, isn't there, Jan?" "There's always a chance." But his voice was heavy, and his shoulders drooped. Sheila's next question about Korytów

So Harriet maintains her point, which is that joining isn't a question of effort or overextension thereof. You miss your chance to join several generations before birth.