Quotes About Chance

The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

I'm geeky about video games. I don't stay inside a lot and just play them 24/7, but if I had the chance, I probably would.

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

But one wrong half turn of a steering wheel, one patch of wet road, one out of control moment, and the amount of life measured out to Victoria Nolan had run cruelly short.

Death didn't miss you because

One reckless note can change everything.

Tam considers me a challenge. I consider Tam a work in progress. I also think there's a gentleman lurking under that calculating exterior. Tam thinks 'gentleman' is a dirty word. I talk dirty to Tam every chance I get.

Their only chance to mix with royalty was while they played Bézique. They never played any other game but this one that had grown out of the French court: it was the game of the cavaliers, a game of waiting between battles.

If I were a lucky girl I would have won the lottery or something. Maybe I had, I thought, staring dreamily at Marcello.

If we never take a chance on people, we'll never know.

Nothing happens by accident, Norman, she'd said. It's all part of a larger plan.

In real life, good people die all the time and a**holes can live long and happy lives. It's a crapshoot.

Luck, be a lady tonight.

she was in the right place at the right

Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair.

Don't worry. It's scientifically unlikely that the universe will explode into a million particles at any given moment.

Luck is merely a product of the happily delusional mind.

Marriage was a lottery, and you drew your lot in late adolescence or early adulthood at a point of maximum idiocy and confusion.

There is no such thing as chance, or fortune; nor is there a readier way to gain the fear of God, and to put our whole trust in Him, than to be thoroughly versed in the doctrine of Predestination.

Even money, which shines so much, spits sometimes.

Only risky plans have any chance to be great.

Why does one person miraculously survive against all odds, while others perish when all they had to do was wait to be rescued?

So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet the love of your life. I think I made the correct turn.

What people don't like to think about is that you can do everything right—in life or in a treatment protocol—and still get the short end of the stick.