Quotes About Chance

The fact is: It's true what they say about the United States. It is a land of opportunity. It is too various to get bored with it.

I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction. I understand that the various collateral consequences of the court-martial conviction will stay on my record forever. I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the U.S.D.B. as the person I was born to be.

I love Las Vegas, but I never get a chance to play a club like the House of Blues. I guess we've graduated to a bigger scale than that. When the Eagles come in and play, that's on a grand scale.

It is not easy to get rich in Las Vegas, at Churchill Downs, or at the local Merrill Lynch office.

Being an entrepreneur is all about risk. Being an entrepreneur is like going to Vegas every day and shoving all of your chips into the middle of the table every single day.

There's no better place than Vegas to take a chance and gamble on love.

I see retirement as just another of these reinventions, another chance to do new things and be a new version of myself.

Non... Les jeux sont faits. On ne reprend pas son coup

Tired and old, they kept on existing, against the grain, simply because they were too weak to die, because death could only come to them from the outside: strains of music alone can proudly carry their own death within themselves like an internal necessity: only they don't exist. Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right.

It really is better to be lucky than to be good.

That left either magical powers or coincidence, and although I have nothing at all against Harry Potter, coincidence got my vote.

Still, if I was really relying on luck, I might as well roll the dice. I stood up, trying to remember the name of the old Roman goddess of chance—Fortuna? It didn't matter. I was quite sure she only spoke Latin, and I didn't. I

Birth is life's first lottery ticket.

birth is life's first lottery ticket.

He remained silent for the rest of the journey, having been made painfully aware that birth is life's first lottery ticket. Tom

Fortune favours the brave.

watched Hugo Barrington when he gave his evidence. The same self-confidence, the same arrogance, the same half-truths spouted convincingly to the jury, just as he'd whispered them to me in the privacy of the bedroom. When he stepped down from the witness box, I knew Stan didn't have a snowball's chance in hell of getting off.

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Great discoveries, whether of silk or gravity, are always windfalls. They happen to people loafing under trees.

And all goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, / and to die is different from that anyone supposed, and luckier.

Of course the fall semester didn't start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I'd be alive when it rolled around.

Timing is a wonderful thing sometimes. It can save us from ourselves.

This is a door. You can close it and stay here, outside, by yourself, or you can walk through it and join them