Quotes About Chance

Coincidence only carries so far, and then you just have to figure that the universe wants to fuck you up as much as possible

There must have been a moment, at the beginning, were we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.

Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds. If it were a bet you wouldn't take it.

If you flip a coin 1000 times, eventually it's going to roll away someplace where you can't get it.

it seems a stray bullet actually pierced the testicle of a Union soldier and lodged itself in the ovaries of a woman standing approximately 100 ft. away. She's alright, the baby's doing fine...ofcourse the soldier's a little pissed off...

When you vote, you play Russian Roulette with a magazine fed pistol.

All things happen for a reason . . . even No Reason is still a reason.

Just think, if I was born one day earlier I would have written this yesterday.

I begin to realize that it's little things like this--snarled traffic, a phone call, rain, some new job, whatever it is--that make all the difference about whether things go good or bad. You tiptoe around stuff or you kick it away or you crush it, but whatever is going to happen happens anyway because of stuff you can't control.

White people aren't ready for trust. But some days we have no choice but to take a chance with them.

The first rule in politics is that there are no rules, at least not in the sense of inevitable defeats or inevitable victories. If you have the right policy and the right strategy, you always have a chance of winning. Without them, you can lose no matter how certain the victory seems.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.

Jack just needed to play his cards right. What was it Penny had said? The Meyers would be incomparable poker players, if only they gambled. Well, Jack was gambling, all right. Reuben could only hope he was good enough.

All right. But take my advice, Mr. Hel. Don't let this chance get away. Opportunity doesn't knock twice, you know." "Penetrating observation. Did you make up the epigram?" "I'll see you tomorrow." "Very well. And ask the guard to knock on my cell door twice. I wouldn't want to confuse him with opportunity.

There's a medical term for it, actually. It's called Hugh Grantism. You spend so long faffing around trying to do the correct thing that the chance to do anything at all just slips you by.

I mean, really, universe … what's the worst that could happen?

There are plenty of other ways to get money, including chance, speculation, marriage, inheritance, theft, extortion, fraud, monopoly, graft, lobbying, counterfeiting, and prospecting. Most of the greatest fortunes have probably involved several of these.

Sometimes you hit the jackpot and sometimes the jackpot hits you, I guess.

The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?

If God is never happy what chance of happiness is there for us?

Are we not all creatures of chance?

Here, on the ground, nothing is likely, everything possible.