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Quotes About Chance

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
~ Blaise Pascal
Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.
~ Johann Ludwig Tieck
Think of destiny more like potentiality because of an element called - free will.
~ Ruben Papian
I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.
~ Angelina Jolie
What mortal knew the way their fate line would run?
~ Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana
What if destiny doesn't care?
~ Scott Westerfeld, Goliath
Speak up, destiny, speak up! Destiny always seems decades away, but suddenly it's not decades away; it's right now. But maybe destiny is always right now, right here, right this very instant, maybe.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
There are no accidents, only encounters with destiny!
~ Elie Wiesel
Who can control his fate?
~ William Shakespeare
Fate is nonawareness.
~ Jan Kott
A thin line separates destiny from coincidence.
~ Unknown
I think it's impossible to know the destiny of things.
~ Luis Gonzalez
Sometimes destiny lies just outside of our reach.
~ Alyson Noel
Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.
~ Fay Weldon
For each of us destiny is a blend of potential, circumstances, and choices.
~ Brandon Mull
None can hold fortune still and make it last.
~ Euripides
Fate is a great accident.
~ Unknown
Destiny is what you make it; otherwise you are at the mercy of fate.
~ Steven Redhead
It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn't change back. One second.
~ Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
What I believe is that when it comes to big things in life, there are no accidents. Everything happens for a reason. You are here for a reason -- and it's not to fail and die.
~ Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
You can't believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn't send you, no matter whether or not you like it.
~ Tom Upton, Just Plain Weird
From a rat hole you can go to the stars or from the stars you can go to a rat hole! Your destiny is open to every possibility!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your destiny - by hook or crook, by this way or that, at some corner or nook - will catch up with you.
~ Fakeer Ishavardas
Whatso'er we perpetrate We do but row we are steered by fate.
~ Samuel Butler