Quotes About Chance

Fortune favours the bold.

You've got to be in a position for luck to happen. Luck doesn't go around looking for a stumblebum.

Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.

Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.

Fortune and Love befriend the bold.

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.

Dating is primarily a numbers game.... People usually go through a lot of people to find good relationships. That's just the way it is.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

We may lose and we may win, but we will never be here again.

A chap can't pick the way he'll die, or we'd all do better at it.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

Death and the dice level all distinctions.

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death." - Jean-Claude

All games contain the idea of death.

The lucky ones are just born dead.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy. Nor does it offer insurance against feelings of doubt and betrayal. If anything, being a Christian complicates the issue. If you believe in a world of pure chance, what difference does it make whether a bus from Yuba City or one from Salina crashes? But if you believe in a world ruled by a powerful God who loves you tenderly, then it makes an awful difference.

What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering. That is the real test of the person: What is our personal attitude to life and its changes and chances?

It is luck to love someone who is free to love you in return.

But you remember this—great wealth or position is not a right, and you don't deserve it however hard you work. It is chance, and the labor of others, that brings a man wealth. Don't forget that others have earned your fortune for you. Never imagine you deserve it.

Nombres est écrit avant mai 1968, coïncidence improbable mais profonde.

Your brother, Mordred, has a grain of sense about prophecies. Of course they'll come true—if a man broods on them until he finds his chance to make them come true.

The other day I chanced to meet An angry man upon the street — A man of wrath, a man of war, A man who truculently bore Over his shoulder, like a lance, A banner labeled "Tolerance.

Within human luck is divine intentionality.