Quotes About Chance

But the danger added to the thrill. It was a long shot: perhaps the police would get to the ring first. Perhaps the ring was a fake all along. Perhaps no one would ever find it. But there was a chance, a real chance, that Isildur might end up the owner of the actual ring that had inspired The Lord of the Rings, that had been carried to Iceland by his namesake a thousand years before.

People talk about there being sliding doors or forks in the road when lives take a different course. Sometimes it's only later, in retrospect, that we recognize we even had a choice.

A thought passes across the driver's face. Ruiz has always referred to it as the Dirty Harry moment-that fleeting instant when a person wonders: Am I fast enough or lucky enough?

A single, random, foolish event can often change a life—a chance meeting, or an accident or a moment of madness. But more often it happens by increments like a creeping tide, so slowly that we barely notice. My life was altered by a diagnosis. It was never going to be a death sentence, but it has robbed me by degrees.

A coincidence is just a couple of things happening simultaneously.

Fortis Fortuna adiuvat

Fortune favors the brave.

The great white joker in the sky dooms us all to stupidity or poverty from birth. No two things on earth are equal or have an equal chance, not a leaf or a tree.

random outcomes of contingent fate in an arbitrary and uncaring universe.

?nançs?zl?klar?m?z? kesip atarak içimizdeki iyile?tirici güce ula?abilecek kadar ?ansl? olabilirsek, tümörleri bir gece içinde eriyip gitmesine neden olabiliriz.

The 50–50–90 rule: Anytime you have a 50–50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong. Andy Rooney

Trend trader Larry Hite put it another way: "There are four kinds of bets. There are good bets, bad bets, bets that you win, and bets that you lose.

Bannon didn't much question Donald Trump's bona fides, or behavior, or electability, because, in part, Trump was just his latest rich man. The rich man is a fixed fact, which you have to accept and deal with in an entrepreneurial world—at least a lower-level entrepreneurial world. And, of course, if Trump had had firmer bona fides, better behavior, and clear electability, Bannon would not have had his chance.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

When we think about the present, we veer wildly between the belief in chance and the evidence in favour of determinism. When we think about the past, however, it seems obvious that everything happened in the way that it was intended.

Unhappiness isn't at its most acute point until a realistic chance of happiness, sufficiently close, has been envisioned.

În via?? se poate întâmpla orice, ÅŸi mai ales nimic.

Considérant les événement présent de notre vie, nous oscillons sans cesse entre la croyance au hasard et l'évidence du déterminisme.

Tout peut arriver dans la vie, et surtout rien.

Nezanedbávajte ni?, ?o by vám mohlo priniesÃ…Â¥ trochu rovnováhy. Š?astie na vás tak ?i tak ne?aká; to je už ve?mi dlho isté. Ale ak sa vám podarí zachytiÃ…Â¥ niektorú z napodobenín Å¡Å¥astia, chyÃ…Â¥te ju. Neváhajte. Tak ?i onak to dlho nepotrvá.

Al considerar los acontecimientos presentes de nuestra vida, oscilamos constantemente entre la fe en el azar y la evidencia del determinismo. Sin embargo, cuando se trata del pasado, no tenemos la menor duda: nos parece obvio que todo ha ocurrido del modo en que, efectivamente, tenía que ocurrir

Anything can happen in life, especially nothing.

You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire . . . The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps ... I can hardly write without envy. --Michelangelo on the dead.

So it's true, then, being in love is like hitting the sweepstakes. It doesn't happen to everyone, and there's no way of saying who's going to win, but it changes your life when it does.