Quotes About Chance

Because chance infidelities do not prevent one thinking, indeed rather the contrary, of the person to whom one is being unfaithful; indeed it is the most frequent manner of being faithful that men have.

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

If this world is a poem, it is not because we see the meaning of it at first but on the strength of its chance occurrences and paradoxes.

And yet we are given a chance as the Side-Octave shews.

What a lurid life Oscar Wilde does lead - so full of extraordinary incidents. What a chance for the memoir writers of the next century

Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Life is a gamble, but if your happy, you will always come out on top

Sometimes you have to risk something to get something out of something.

Ne vjerujem da mi je unaprijed zapisan put kojim ?u pro?i, jer ne vjerujem u neki naro?it red ovoga svijeta. Ne odlu?ujemo, ve? se zati?emo. Strmoglavljeni smo u igru, punu nebrojenih izmjena, jednog odre?enog trenutka, kad nas samo ta prilika ?eka, jedina koja nas može sa?ekati, u toku miješanja. Ne možes je zaobi?i, ni odbiti. Tvoja je, kao voda u koju padneš. Pa plivaš, ili potones.

Chance decided my fate and the path my life took, and most often I was faced with a fait accompli, and fell into one of the possible currents; only a different chance could cast me into another. You could neither avoid it nor refuse it. It was yours, like the water you fell into. And you'd either sink or swim.

How many events added up to a coincidence? How many coincidences added up to a conspiracy?

Nem mindig rajtunk múlik, milyen véget érnek a dolgok.

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.

It is a part of probability that many improbable things will happen. —Aristotle, Poetics, XXV

Synchronicity? Or bullshit?

A doctor's job, like a gambler's, is intimately tied up with failure; the house always wins over time.

A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!

A pure drop of rain may fall on a beautiful water lily or on a dirty mud pond! This is exactly what happens when we are born!

Between a stupid fascist and an intelligent fascist, prefer the intelligent one, because there is always a chance to persuade the clever one about the mistakes of his actions! There is no such a chance for stupid and ignorant fascist!

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

General Napoleon says that ability is of little account without opportunity. The opposite is also correct: Opportunity is of little account without ability.

Life is a gift of God, of the God of Coincidence!