Quotes About Chance

Anything is possible in life.

I think it's easy to enjoy anywhere that you play where you feel like you got a chance to win a lot.

I also want the chance to work with some of the best actors in the business, because that's where you can learn so much by just being on a set and getting a feel for how they approach their role and how they work with you.

I almost said no to 'Broken Arrow.' I ended up doing it on a lark.

But I believe I should have the chance to show how good I am at Arsenal.

I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.

In love, a chance is faith's help to the women

Le hasard est le plus grand romancier du monde : pour être fécond, il n'y a qu'à l'étudier.

we often subject ourselves to sentiments by our own volition, — deliberately bind ourselves, and create our own fate; chance has not as much to do with it as we believe.

The first thing necessary to win the heart of a woman is opportunity.

Let us my friends snatch our opportunity from the passing day.

Serendipity… you will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of…. Now do you understand serendipity?

People who think that they have no chance and use that as an escape route... have no hope in life.

A lot happens by accident in poetry.

Le hasard pur n'engendre que le chaos. Le déterminisme pur ne crée rien de nouveau. C'est l'association de ces deux facteurs qui donne naissance à la richesse et à la variété des formes de la Nature.

Seems to me that this business, for actors anyway, is not so much about whether or not you do good work. It's about whether or not you get the chance to do good work.

Death and disaster are at our shoulders every second of our lives, trying to get at us. Missing, a lot of the time. A lot of miles on the motorway without a front wheel blow-out. A lot of viruses that slither through our bodies without snagging. A lot of pianos that fall a minute after we've passed. Or a month, it makes no difference. So unless we're going to get down on our knees and give thanks every time disaster misses, it makes no sense to moan when it strikes.

Man works to be wealthy, but gambles to be rich.

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.

Relax. There is zero chance of Putin blackmailing Trump. Blackmail depends on the possibility of embarrassment. Allan Whittow Great Missenden, Buckinghamshire

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.

Acknowledgements Reading Group Notes Timeline About the Author By Ian Rankin Copyright Serendipity. According to the dictionary, it means the ability to make 'happy chance finds'. Serendip was the old name for Ceylon. Horace Walpole is credited with coining the term, after the fairy tale 'The Three Princes of Serendip', whose titular heroes were always stumbling across things they weren't looking for.