Quotes About Chance

Life is very oriental. Only a few people chosen by the inevitability of chance have tasted the aloof and delicate freedom of life. It's like knowing how to arrange flowers in a vase: almost useless knowledge. That fleeting freedom of life must never be forgotten: it should be present like a fragrance. To live this life is more an indirect remembering than a direct living.

Terei que ter a coragem de usar um coração desprotegido e de ir falando para o nada e para o ninguém? Assim como uma criança pensa para o nada. E correr o risco de ser esmagada pelo acaso.

What isn't tried won't work.

Opportunity is a bird that never perches.

From now on, I will no longer leave our fate up to the whims of the universe.

Remember that wasted minute at the start of the day? Hard luck but you'll never find it again.

Could be. Unlikely, but

the reason opportunity is often missed is that it usually comes disguised as hard work.

Tomorrow is promised to no one.

Do ya' feel lucky, punk?

Now you've got to ask yourself one question. Do I feel lucky? - Inspector Harry Callahan

My daddy always said, 'Luck never gives, it lends

They who await no gifts from chance, conquer fate.

The more nobly behaved the family, the less chance it stood.

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work the more of it I seem to have.

Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.

There is no doubt that, if ever my heart were to call my master Chance by another name, I should make an excellent Catholic.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.

My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor.

Some people know they are condemned; some have time to pray, and others die struggling and screaming, fighting to their last breath. An irate killer stamps in to the tribunal—"Use your heads, give us a bloody chance, can't you? We can't keep up." So the prisoners are waved away airily by their judges—"Go, you're free." Outside the door a steady man waits to fell them. Freedom is the last thing they know.

Some would think that it ought to come in the course of nature to a woman of thirty-six, a wife and mother. A little calm, a little quiet within - little chance. Even after childbearing, there is blood in your veins, not milk.

My father always says, choosing a wife is like putting your hand into a bag full of writhing creatures, with one eel to six snakes. What are the chances you will pull out the eel?

Gambling is not a vice, if you can afford to do it.