Quotes About Chance

Information: the negative reciprocal value of probability.

You cannot underestimate the value of luck in success in life. And I've really learned to appreciate that.

Sama means 'equal' in Sanskrit; I chose 'Samasource' because I thought it really reflected a value that I had and that I wanted the company to have, which is that everyone has equal capabilities and deserves an equal chance.

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

Sometimes choice is a luxury that fate does not afford us.

I don't believe in coincidences. Neither do I. That's a coincidence, isn't it?

Oh, hullo, Worthing,' he said in a cheery manner. 'How are things?' 'Outlook stormy with a chance of scattered death moving in randomly from all points of the compass.

There's weird shit about; take it for luck.' 'I'm beginning to think there's no such thing.' 'My point precisely.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you is determinism; the way you play it is free will.

You are the kind of guy who always hopes for a miracle at the last minute.

But the longer you live, the more you realize there are a lot of flukish things in this world.

We are real only by chance, and immortal without knowing it.

The sudden cancellation of a planned event or of some decision or other is one of those subtle pleasures with which chance occasionally blesses us.

If destiny is implacable, that is because you have not known how to please it.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

Le hasard, c'est la forme que Dieu prend pour passer incognito.

His recent dungeon experience had persuaded him that opportunites for good things should be grabbed and not postponed. You never knew when you wouldn't be around anymore.

Todo lo que existe nace sin razón, se prolonga por debilidad, y muere por casualidad

People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing....

Leila was untouchable. She was in my heart now, and I'd carry her always, on this earth that every day gives men a chance.

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.