Quotes About Chance

Life is short, especially if you are happy. And life is wide; especially if you are old, and still have a chance for happiness. But, you have to watch life as you live it, because life is always deep.

Our language is funny — a fat chance and slim chance are the same thing.

I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

Talent and intelligence never yet inoculated anyone against the caprice of the fates.

Bay followed and put a hand on her arm. 'But Miss Baird, Charlotte, am I right to feel lucky that I have met you?' Charlotte smiled. 'I think we both might be lucky, don't you?

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

A physicist once told me that one view of our universe is that its stability is an accident, that thousands upon thousands of relationships are unstable and that chance alone holds ours together.

Bill Harper was a lucky guy. Bill Harper had got Diane and then he had been killed.

But he could believe anything from now on out. A million to one ten million to one there was always the one.

You understand, he says, people don't always take what you give to them. Not every chance is an opportunity. Sometimes a chance is just a waste of time.

All life is 6 to 5 against.

I long ago come to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's how the smart money bets.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is 6 to 5 against.

One life, Harlon. I learned many things from Eisenhorn, but ruthlessness was not one of them. Thousands may die, millions even, unless Molotch is found and brought to justice. But any count of a million starts with one, and to ignore one life when there is still l a chance of saving it, well, one might as well give up on the other nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine as well." - Gideon Ravenor

Believe me, Harlon, in the length and breadth of this great Imperium of Man, there is no such thing as coincidence." - Gideon Ravenor

Ha ha ha! One shot? You say that like there's sometimes more than one shot. Do you ever go into a fight thinking "there's no point giving my best, I'll get another chance later"? We only ever get one shot, Marlin. Life is one shot. Making it count is all that matters.

Forgive me, for those of you who play the lottery — but economists, at least among themselves, refer to the lottery as a stupidity tax, because the odds of getting any payoff by investing your money in a lottery ticket are approximately equivalent to flushing the money directly down the toilet.

The first thing to realize is that if you have a large organization filled with a relatively homogenous population of employees, then that composition did not happen by chance.

That is the thing about infinity: it takes things that are otherwise very unlikely and makes them all inevitable.

Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables 'Do not try.'

Coincidence: just another way of explaining the unexplainable.

What if we had walked a different path one day, would some small incident have nudged us elsewhere the way a pebble tossed into a brook might change the course a hundred miles downstream?