Quotes About Chance

Uncertainty, I'm starting to realize, doesn't mean the loss of hope—it means there's possibility.

Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.

I did not very often consider the reasons my father died. I didn't believe his life was taken to instill some larger meaning in my character, or make me a better person. I preferred to believe that a person might be taken for no reason other than the random winds of chance, the same forces that could create a brilliant sky after a terrible storm.

The simple rule: some get saved, but most don't. The choices are important before the years begin to go so very fast.

Life is one big fat gamble, and the odds are never in your favor. So you either go for it anyway and toss the dice or you don't play. But not playing? She jabbed him in the bare chest with her finger. That's the coward's way out. And I hadn't pegged you for a coward. Figure your shit out.

I want you to give me a chance." "A chance at what?" Shifting so that he could press his forehead to hers, he said one word. "You." Her breath caught. "Sean," she breathed. "Because you've got me," he said. "All of me.

I've learned that life is a crapshoot, and at any moment someone can walk into it and change it forever.

There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect. A hundred million things had to happen, to all come together at the same time, for such moments to come into existence -- so many things that it beggars imagination to think that they could possibly have happened by random chance. This was one of them.

I am disturbed by the presence of inordinate levels of coincidence

Your death doesn't belong to me. We flipped a coin. I lost.

Those were long odds. Really, really long odds. Ridiculously long odds, really. When you have to measure them in astronomical units, it probably isn't a good bet.

Even a broken clock gets it right occasionally. - Harry Dresden

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment Would you capture it? Or just let it slip?" —Marshall Bruce Mathers III, "Lose Yourself"1

It seems that so much of good luck and bad are accidental and that the chance meetings that Pasternak had been criticized for in Zhivago are in fact the core of life.

I was a fluke in a classroom full of flukes on a planet overpopulated by flukes.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

Before you slip into unconsciousness I'd like to have another kiss Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

Getting a second doctor's opinion is kinda like switching slot machines.

some events in life would remain beyond my ability to control or manage them. Some events would just happen.

There's no justice in who dies

And so Nat stood up and joined the group, and followed, and watched, and awaited his chance as the light of Chaos lit the plain and gods and demons marched to war.

People work too hard to figure out the meaning of their lives. Why me, why now. The truth is, sometimes things don't happen to you for a reason. Sometimes it's just about being in the right place at the right time for someone else.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn't.

Accidents did not just happen. From time to time they were carefully plotted, calculated, and arranged to one's advantage-all, of course, under the cloak of happenstance.