Quotes About Chance

Pensée d'un philosophe polonais Il y a des gens formidables Qu'on rencontre au mauvais moment. Et il y a des gens qui sont formidables Parce qu'on les rencontre au bon moment.

Ir br?niš??gi cilv?ki, kurus m?s sastopam nepiem?rot? br?d?, un ir br?niš??gi cilv?ki, kuri t?di ir tikai t?d??, ka m?s tos esam sastapuši ?staj? br?d?.

El valor de una casualidad es igual a su tasa de improbabilidad.

It turns out that you only need 23 people for it to be more likely to find a shared birthday than not.

With 80 people, the size of this classroom, the probability that there will be no shared birthdays is so tiny as to be virtually impossible.

It sounds like a lot of you are not too surprised if this 30% chance materialises," Dan replies. "You take precautions against it. The rain, if it comes, doesn't shock you, and you have your umbrella. So why was everyone so shocked about Trump?

The gambling impulse even predates humanity: A variety of animals, from bees to primates, embrace risk for a chance at reward. A 2005 Duke University study found that macaque monkeys preferred to follow a "riskier" target, which gave them varying amounts of juice, over a "safe" one, which always gave the same—they just like gambling.

But you, your life, it's just starting, it's all ahead of you. It's yours to throw away.

qualities of mutual care, love and above all happiness, which they found impossible to replicate once back in European settings. 'Security' takes many forms. There is the security of knowing one has a statistically smaller chance of getting shot with an arrow. And then there's the security of knowing that there are people in the world who will care deeply if one is.

Accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Ishmael gave himself to the writing of it, and as he did so he understood this, too: that accident ruled every corner of the universe except the chambers of the human heart.

Stercus accidit.

A dice maker agreed with Scarne: "Once in a blue moon you might find a single store die that classes as a perfect, but the chance of finding two of them in a box of 60 and the chance that they would both be sold to the same purchaser as a pair is so small you can forget about it. It never happened.

was the only incoming they'd taken in days. How do you go about telling a guy who is alive only because he didn't use the shitter at the wrong time that he ought to go back home, go to school, get married and mortgaged, have kids, and commit to the world when he knows for a fact that nothing in this world is real except chance?

Luck always seems like it belongs to someone else.

If you believe in coincidence, then you aren't paying attention.

So even the most unlikely events have to take place somewhere ...

Sometimes it is a comfort to believe that one day is like another, that things happen over and over and are the same. But accidents happen, and sometimes a man or a woman is lucky enough to see that all of it, from the first light kiss onward, could have gone another way.

Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

God throws dice, what can I say?

As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world.

Just when you think you're playing your cards right, God shuffles the deck.

I like to think I'll just be walking down the street one day and stop and meet someone, like, Oh my god, you're awesome, and then we start dating.