Quotes About Chance

Fortune favored him… in the opportune moment of his death.

chance is only for the people willing to give it ago n taking it is only encourage by the people who believe in you !

Old people really do have a secret though. You wanna know what it is? Luck.

I say suffer, because I believe if you are prejudiced you are committing an act of self robbery, which will severely damage your chance of joy or happiness.

My point is when the odds are fifty-fifty in an area of your life that matters, you change your behavior.

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused. 

Motives are all fine and good, but if we could find out the how, we'd have a shooting's match chance of finding out the who.

was the product of fate, or chance, or luck, or even divine will.

Nothing was a sure thing; every choice was just an educated guess, or a leap into a mysterious abyss. People might not change but their incentives could. So

the flower gardens. And it will be the last chance

Even half a chance beats none.

It's never been today before.

I would absolutely love to do a revival of 'Bury the Dead' by Irwin Shaw on Broadway, but it would have to be Joe Calarco's version that we did Off-Broadway at The Transport Group in 2008. It was just one of those amazing shows that didn't run long enough and not nearly enough people got a chance to see.

I thought poker might be a perfect environment to start to learn probabilistic decision-making, and to live what it means to have skill versus chance and to see how that played out. I would dive in head first into the poker world.

Who would have thought that Shane McMahon would have any kind of a chance versus Undertaker?

I am very grateful for the opportunities I have been afforded.

Chance is hugely significant in biology. In fact, the presence of apparent randomness in so many aspects of biology - from mutations in DNA to the chance involved in that one sperm reaching that one egg that became you - suggests that randomness is useful, even necessary, in very many cases.

The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.

What you think is going to be a big break or opportunity can sometimes turn into the opposite, and vice versa.

Even if you play well, you can lose, and vice versa.

The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.

There is no fool like a careless gambler who starts taking victory for granted.

Yeah, anybody with a heartbeat has a path to victory.