Quotes About Chance

It seemed wrong not to take a chance to meet people.

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

Every situation, properly perceived, becomes an opportunity.

All lovers in the world are alike: they fall in love by chance; they see each other, and are attached to each other by the features of their faces; they illuminate each other by the fierce preference which is akin to madness; they assert the reality of illusions; and for a moment they change falsehood into truth.

Accident counts for much in companionship, as in marriage.

Ivy League bumblers and drunks who had once pulled the levers of secret gov't in an age of high anxiety...These were the bastards who beat the bastards, unless it was all just dumb luck.

Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

There is no such thing as no chance.

Be not bound by the present, but leave nothing to luck.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The day is not over yet. You may still meet with Providence, who never gets up before noon.

I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

Whoso does not play at dice will not lose property, but still people play at dice. There is in that a certain delight and destruction of the present.

Chance created the situation; genius made use of it.

Therefore, all these causes-billions of causes-coincided so as to bring about what happened. And consequently none of them was the exclusive cause of the event, but the event had to take place simply because it had to take place.

Why did it happen this way and not otherwise? Because this is how it happened.

Chance created the situation; genius utilized it," says history. But what is chance? What is genius? The words chance and genius do not denote any really existing thing and therefore cannot be defined. Those words only denote a certain stage of understanding of phenomena.

Only by renouncing our claim to discern a purpose immediately intelligible to us, and admitting the ultimate purpose to be beyond our ken, may we discern the sequence of experiences in the lives of historic characters, and perceive the cause of the effect they produce (incommensurable with ordinary human capabilities) and then the words chance and genius become superfluous.

Chance created the position; genius took advantage of it," says history.

even damn fools can accomplish something now and then.

It doesn't matter how anything happens.

probability is the very guide of life

A philosophy of education, in short, is essential to being a proper parent; otherwise, you are merely turning your child over to blind chance.