Quotes About Chance

What if Katie Couric had turned to me and said, "The love of your life is here in this crowd"? Would I have believed her? Would it have even been possible, if we'd met then?

It might not feel like it, the cop says, but, Cooper, today is your lucky day.

Rip never dates anyone," she observes. "Why?" I ask. "He doesn't like the odds.

There's no way to know if we would have lasted. There's no way to be sure, and plenty of reasons to doubt it. I just wish I'd had the chance. That is one of the things I miss the most— the chance to make it work.

But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave it to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest—the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.

The reward is in the risk.

If I had been the same age. If I had gone to the same school. If I was in that room right now. There's no way to know if we would have lasted. There's no way to be sure, and plenty of reason to doubt it. I just wish I'd had the chance. That is one of the things I miss the most- the chance to make it work.

Tomorrow', she says, a little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

But the more I live with it, and the more I live in general, the more I realize: We all have days that could alter the course of our lives. Not each and every day, maybe. But a lot of them. Most of them.

There is nothing so heartening as a chance.

We all have days that alter the course of our lives. Not each and every day, maybe. But a lot of them. Most of them.

Art has no chance of making the world more just than politics has of making it more beautiful.

in the life of every man there was one great good fortune and one misfortune of equal force.

Weird doors open. People fall into things.

Gambling to me is what a telephone pole might be to a groundhog. He sees that it's there but doesn't for the life of him understand why.

When you're young it's easy to believe that such a opportunity will come again, maybe even a better one.

Intervention. Corny letters notwithstanding, they have guts. The person they're confronting might storm out of the room and never talk to them again, but at least they're rolling the dice.

Story seems to say that everything happens for a reason and I want to say, No, it doesn't.

That's how the universe worked at times: little things - the tiniest things - could catapult you toward a good life, but you had to be open and you had to be paying attention. Love wasn't purely destined, it relied on hiccups of fate - Aimee Mann, someone else's trip to Peru, a black dog.

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.

HIs life was always a happenstance.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Be quick as another may be waiting

Maybe there will always be men who say the right thing at the right time, who step forward like Thespis at just the right moment of history, and then there will be men like Archie Jones, who are just there to make up the numbers. Or, worse still, who are given their big break only to come in on cue and die a death right there, center stage, for all to see.