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Quotes About Chance

I wish I could divorce you," George says. "I wish you had a pre-contract, but Jesus, no chance of that, the fields were black with men running in the other direction." Monseigneur holds up a hand. "Please.
~ Hilary Mantel
All of this is really impossible, in the way that it is really impossible that monkeys should by chance type out a copy of Hamlet.
~ Hilary Putnam
I feel very lucky because of my parents and then my education, the opportunities that I've had, so I would like to continue working to improve lives for others.
~ Hillary Clinton
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
~ Hippocrates
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
~ Hippocrates
you're lucky you can die!!
~ Unknown
But some people are born lucky. They lead happy lives without even trying. Ridiculous, isn't it?
~ Hiroyuki Takei
My loneliness I have borne about with me through the crowd as a snail his house. For some individuals solitude isn't a circumstance they've tumbled into by chance, but a trait, of character.
~ Hjalmar Söderberg
You can't go around making plans that have you getting killed as a by-product. Eventually one of them is going to work .
~ Holly Black
I promised myself I would do this, if I ever had the chance again. I promised I would do this the first moment I could. "I love you," I say
~ Holly Black
But in all the stories, you have a single chance; and if you miss it, then it's gone. The door isn't there when you go back to look. There is no second invitation to the ball. This is my chance.
~ Holly Black
I thought love was just supposed to happen when you least expected it, like a sap to the skull.
~ Holly Black
For what we want most, we will take almost any chance.
~ Holly Black
Quick, make a wish. Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.
~ Holly Black
A ti no te limita ningún juramento. Si te arrepientes de tu jugada, haz otra. Aún quedan muchas partidas que jugar».
~ Holly Black
We don't always have a choice in our fate.
~ Holly Black
Sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
~ Unknown
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
~ Unknown
I had youth, beauty, two advantages conferred by chance, and of which we are as proud as if they were hard-won.
~ Honore de Balzac
Félicité knew neither father nor mother, and was her own mistress from childhood. . . . Chance thrust her into the fields of science and the imagination and the world of literature, instead of loaving her in the small, tight circle of frivolous education traced for women - a mother's instruction in how to dress, in the hypocritical proprieties of society, in the arts of hunting a man.
~ Honore de Balzac
Now we got a lawyer, we got civilization, which I understand to mean that a man has a chance to get rich without working.
~ Unknown
Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
~ Lewis Thomas
Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you'd think the mere fact of existing would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
~ Lewis Thomas
Every actor dreams of getting a big break, a big opportunity.
~ Liam McIntyre