Quotes About Chance

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

Chance favours the trained mind.

Our attitude can be that we keep getting another chance, rather than that we're just getting another bad deal.

Opportunity, after all, is only another word for temptation.

Luck has its rules, if you can understand them, and then it is scarcely luck.

We were delighted to have a chance of meeting you, Miss Saunders,' said Mrs Fairly, as they sat down. 'We have heard so very little about you.

Statesmen may plot and plan. Learned men may calculate and conclude. Diplomats may debate and prevaricate. But chance rules the immediate affairs of humankind.

Life's full of chances to hurt yourself or someone else.

a decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler's throw

Nothing ventured, nothing gained, but don't put all your eggs in one basket.

The prospect of getting rich is highly motivating, and few people get rich without taking a gamble.

My diaries are full of such missed opportunities, but the stock market is merciful—it always gives the nincompoop a second chance.

By the way, the odds against making a living in the day-trading business are about the same as the odds against making a living at racetracks, blackjack tables, or video poker.

What if it doesn't work out? Ah, but what if it does.

Randomness is a general model that scientists use for things they do not understand.

For instance, if we gaze deeply at the deceptively simple word opportunity, we have a chance to see hidden beauty shining from below, which is the Roman god Portunus, patron of harbors. Seen in this light every new circumstance is like sailing into a strange and distant port, which may offer a haven, if we choose to take refuge.

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Non siete contenti di non vivere in un romanzo di fantascienza, dove ogni azione ha uno scopo ed è coerente, e in un cui il caso non agisce? La capillare sensazione che abbiamo di un universo senza senso è forse ciò che sostiene le nostre vite.

He had very few dealings with the government. That was neither a virtue nor a vice; it was simply good luck.

Both of them sat silent on the moss-covered rock in the slant of sunlight through the old pines and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. Each of those chances might have gone a different way.

Maybe so," he said, "but whatever little chance of safety there is, I want her to have it.

They both sat silent on the moss-covered rock, in the slant of sunlight through the old pines, and thought how many tiny chances had conspired to bring them to this place. Each of those chances might have gone a different way.

Trust chance, trust silence, trust mystery