Quotes About Chance

Impossible to know. The thing is, you take a fork in the road, it doesn't always work out for the better . . . but sometimes it does. It must.

Thanks, Alice," Grant said, and to Lucas, "I don't like you, and I suspect you don't like me, but try to be fair. Don't stick yourself into this campaign. Don't sabotage me." "I'm not trying—" "Whether you're trying or not, that's the effect," Grant said. "Wait a week or ten days, let the election take place, then do your worst. But give me a chance. I've worked very hard for it.

There is nothing between me and death, but luck and sex and coincidence.

Ever notice how dumb luck seems to follow smart people around?

She had some hope, now. First chance

to somebody. It's hard to believe he'd get a break

Our lives are arbitrary and weird, but if I pull this off—if me and all my friends from the Intrepid pull this off—then we get something that everyone else in our universe doesn't get: a chance to make our own fate. I'm going to take it. I don't know how yet. But I'm not going to blow it.

I guess I'm trying to say, Grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.

Up ahead they's a thousan' lives we might live, but when it comes it'll on'y be one.

Intentions, good or bad, are not enough. There's luck or fate or something else that takes over...

Look out for luck. You can't trus' luck.

Never did seem right to me. S'pose Curley jumps a big guy an' licks him. Ever'body says what a game guy Curley is. And s'pose he does the same thing and gets licked. Then ever'body says the big guy oughtta pick somebody his own size, and maybe they gang up on the big guy. Seems like Curley ain't givin' nobody a chance.

He thought that she possessed the two great gifts: she was smart and she got the breaks— and you couldn't want no better than that.

Help him, Adam--help him. Give him his chance. Let him be free. That's all a man has over the beasts. Free him! Bless him!

I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.

And this Kino knew also - that the gods do not love men's plans, and the gods do not love success unless it comes by accident.

They was havin' the time a their life, an' same time you wouldn' give a gopher for their chance.'' Casy said, "Seems like that's the way. Fella havin' fun, he don't give a damn; but a fella mean an' lonely an' old an' disappointed—he's scared of dyin'!

Well, she thought, here it is just as I knew it would be. Here was her death. Her mind flashed to see if she had forgotten anything—will made, letters burned, new underwear, plenty of food in the house for dinner. She wondered whether she had turned out the light in the back room. It was all in a second. Then she thought there might be an outside chance of survival.

When opportunity comes, it's too late to prepare.

When opportunity knocks, it's too late to prepare.

The reason Agatha had never married was that when she was young and had the opportunities she hadn't felt the need, and later, feeling the need, she had no opportunities.

Fate, no doubt, had a hand in it.

I don't know what we're doing here – you and me … I don't know what we are or what we can be, but this doesn't have to be about that. This can just be about … a chance. Taking a chance.

For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.