Quotes About Chance

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Swing hard in case you hit it.

Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.

I believe in luck: how else can you explain the success of those you don't like?

Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.

Ne scap? mereu câte ceva în via??, de aceea trebuie s? ne na?tem mereu.

In every life there is a moment when you can break free of taken forgranted situations and strike out in a different direction

La verdad, es que en el fondo soy un fatalista. Si a uno le llega la hora, da lo mismo un Boeing que la puntual maceta que se derrumba sobre uno desde un séptimo piso

el azar nos ofrece su doble vía vos con tus soledades yo con las mías

Entonces? Acaso Dios tenga un rostro de croupier y yo sólo sea un pobre diablo que juega a rojo cuando sale negro, y viceversa.

En realidad, los elementos que él (¿o Él?) mismo nos ha dado (raciocinio, sensibilidad, intuición) no son en absoluto suficientes como para garantizarnos ni su existencia ni su no existencia. Gracias a una corazonada, puedo creer en Dios y acertar, o no creer en Dios y también acertar. ¿Entonces? Acaso Dios tenga un rostro de croupier y yo sólo sea un pobre diablo que juega a rojo cuando sale negro, y viciversa.

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

While she was willing to give him a chance to repair her, she remained secretly unconvinced that she was worth the trouble. When the nurses said she was lucky to be alive, she thought the opposite was true. She felt unlucky to have failed.

It is often while you are looking for something else entirely that you make the most amazing finds.

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word "opportunity". It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

Bad timing can be as calamitous as good timing is fortuitous.

Yo no creo en las coincidencias; creo en la providencia.

you can either avoid making mistakes and play not to lose, or you can make the most of every opportunity and play to win.

Maximum improbability equals maximum possibility.

If you don't take the risk, you forfeit the miracle.

I don't believe in coincidence. I believe in providence.

Life isn't fair. Fair is somewhere you go to ride the dodgems and win a goldfish.

The hard, cold reality of trading is that every trade has an uncertain outcome.

Any one of us could have come up with such a sentence. We are, when it comes right down to it, all of us: mere monkeys at typewriters.