Quotes About Chance

I am fortunes fool.

Against ill chances men are ever merry, But heaviness foreruns the good event. ... Therefore be merry, coz; since sudden sorrow Serves to say thus: Some good thing comes tomorrow.

There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.

You must take your chance.

You never know what is the next direction your life will take

if you can't walk this pathway; it does not mean that there is no other pathto walk through; and still end up in the exact same end.

O, I am fortune's fool!

Children in their youth blossomed and bloomed; then chance, inclination, heredity all played their part

In all prospering human affairs there is a streak of hazard, a blending of good fortune with good judgment which gives the lucky man a sense of having earned his deserts and gives the deserving, if he is modest, an awareness of his luck. That

Making money at gambling was like seeing ghosts: you never met someone who'd seen a ghost, only someone who knew someone who'd seen a ghost. You only met people who knew people who'd made a fortune at White's. Or on the racecourse.

I don't know if mama was right, that we each have a destiny, or if if was Lt Dan, that we are all just floating around, accidental, like on a breeze, but I think... I think... maybe... it's both happening at the same time.

Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you're going to get.

All this shows how much luck there is in human affairs, and how little we should worry about anything except doing our best.

You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck...One must never forget when misfortunes come that it is quite possible they are saving one from something much worse; or that when you make some great mistake, it may very easily serve you better than the best-advised decision.

Il ne faut jamais oublié quand un malheur vous frappe, qu'il peut très bien vous épargner un ennui pire encore; ou que, quand vous commettez une lourde erreur, cela peut très bien vous servir mieux que la décision la plus sage. La vie est un tout, la chance est un tout, et on ne peut séparer aucun élément du reste.

you never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck.

It is true Greek tragedy, with Chance as the ever ready hand-maid of Fate.

The goddess of Battles visits warriors only once. He who does not grasp her at such a moment never reaches her again.

It has been well said, 'there is always more error than design in human affairs.

Así, por obra del azar, soy y miro. Una mariposa blanca aletea en el aire con alas que sólo a ella pertenecen, y una sombra sobrevuela mi mano, la suya, no otra, no de cualquiera. Ante hechos semejantes me abandona la certeza de que lo importante es más importante que lo que no importa.

Um acaso cósmico. Um desvio singular. Distendido nas curvaturas, pesos, asperezas e movimentos!

You were saved because you were the first. You were saved because you were the last. Alone. With others. On the right. The left. Because it was raining. Because of the shade. Because the day was sunny.

My apologies to chance for calling it necessity. My apologies to necessity if I'm mistaken, after all. Please, don't be angry, happiness, that I take you as my due. May my dead be patient with the way my memories fade. My apologies to time for all the world I overlook each second.

Alf Todd, said Ukridge, soaring to an impressive burst of imagery, has about as much chance as a one-armed blind man in a dark room trying to shove a pound of melted butter into a wild cat's left ear with a red-hot needle.