Quotes About Chance

Today might not be so good. But tomorrow, you got another chance to

would be the only time." Knox

There are no coincidences. All you needed was more in-depth investigation to show that there are no coincidences.

Isn't it odd how the little things can change a man's entire life?

For what place can be left for anything to happen at random so long as God controls everything in order? It is a true saying that nothing can come out of nothing.

I'd like to emphasize that when a reader finishes a great novel, he will immediately begin looking for another. If someone loves your book, it increases the chance that he or she will look at mine. So there is no competition between writers. Another writer's success helps build a larger readership for all of us.

The thought that the bullet has already been fired at each of us and it is only a matter of time when it will hit, brings comfort to some and terror to others.

almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of 'psst' that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

Almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it.

Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

In life, the microphone passes your lips but once... you had better be ready to sing.

an individual person's basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: 100 i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can't even hear because you're in such a rush to or from something important you've tried to engineer.

It's the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

but think how mysterious and often unaccountable it is--that lottery of life which gives to this man the purple and fine linen, and sends to the other rags for garments and dogs for comforters.

All things lie dark in possibility.

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

I am even The natural fool of fortune.

There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now...