Quotes About Chance

Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome'.

Cada vida está conformada por muchos millones de decisiones. Algunas importantes, otras banales. Cada vez que se elige una opción en lugar de otra, se produce un resultado diferente. Una variación irreversible, que a su vez conduce a otras variaciones.»

When things start to happen, other things start to happen. But sometimes it seems there is no explanation as to why the things are happening – why all the buses are coming along at once – why life's moments of luck and pain arrive in clusters. All we can do is observe the pattern, the rhythm, and then live it.

It just shows you, doesn't it?' 'Shows me what?' 'Well, that you can choose choices but not outcomes. But I stand by what I said. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

Between life and death there is a library,' she said. 'And within that library, the shelves go on for ever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be different if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

You can choose choices but not outcomes. It was a good choice. It just wasn't a desired outcome.

And you never know when a meal will be your last . . . None of us do.

When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad. Because of all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good.

Taken all together, the whole thing is an ingenious system for inhibiting progress and the popular will. The deck is stacked just enough to make sure that nothing ever changes. But enough is left to chance to make sure that hope never completely dies out.

It's better to be lucky than smart.

Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.

Yet they, believe me, who awaitNo gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control,His sad lucidity of soul.

We do not what we ought;What we ought not, we do;And lean upon the thoughtThat chance will bring us through.

They... who await No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

It could just as easily have been me. That reminder of human frailty and the role that fortune and misfortune play in our lives prevented me from becoming too prideful. Better men than me had died over in the sandbox, often purely by chance. Were you in the lead vehicle, or at the tail end of the convoy? Sometimes it came down to which side of a vehicle you were sitting on when something went ka-boom. Why did the invisible shard of flying metal hit the Marine to your right instead of you?

Events are not determined by the wheel of fortune, which is blind, but by the wheels of Providence, which are full of eyes

The unexpected is either a curse or an opportunity. We get to decide.

All at once I felt myself haunted by a terrible vision, of a world without guidance: a land of emptiness, where all was ruled by the madness of chance. How could one endure such a place, where all significance was lost? I myself would mean nothing, but would merely be a kind of self-invention: a speck upon the wind, calling itself Wilson. I felt my spirit waver, as if it were toppling into the abyss before me.

Making movies is just like betting on horses at the racetrack.

Attendre, c'était attendre l'occasion. Et l'occasion ne venait qu'à l'instant dérobé à l'attente, l'instant où il n'est plus question d'attendre.

Whoever wants to remember himself must entrust himself to forgetfulness, to the risk that absolute forgetfulness is, and the beautiful chance that memory then becomes.

Midnight falls when the dice are cast, but one can only cast the dice at Midnight.