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Quotes About Chance

Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes - there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game? …Pachinko was a foolish game, but life was not.
~ Min Jin Lee
Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes—there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones.
~ Min Jin Lee
Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes—there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game?
~ Min Jin Lee
Mozasu era convinto che la vita fosse più simile al pachinko, nel quale anche il caso aveva un ruolo importante.
~ Min Jin Lee
Every morning, Mozasu and his men tinkered with the machines to fix the outcomes – there could only be a few winners and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones. How could you get angry at the ones who wanted to be in the game? Etsuko had failed in this important way – she had not taught her children to hope, to believe in the perhaps absurd possibility that they might win. Pachinko was a foolish game, but life was not.
~ Min Jin Lee
Every dog has its day!!
~ Unknown
coincidences are seductive
~ Unknown
This person mourns the fact that she has ruined her one chance to be loved by everyone; as this person climbs into bed, the weight of this tragedy seems to bear down upon this person's chest. And it is a comforting weight, almost human in heft. This person sighs. This person's eyes begin to close, this person sleeps.
~ Miranda July
Things shouldn't hinge on so very little. Sneeze and you're highway carnage. Remove one tiny stone and you're an avalanche statistic. But I guess if you can die without ever understanding how it happened then you can also live without a complete understanding of how. And in a way that's kind of relaxing.
~ Miriam Toews
It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.
~ Mitt Romney
Heavens never seals off all the exits
~ Mo Yan
Pero, cómo pudo Lu Wenli irse con el profesor Liu? -pregunté-. ¡Es inconcebible! -Acaso era concebible meterle la pelota en la boca de un requetazo? -replicó He Zhiwu. Indudablemente, eso formaba parte de las cosas inconcebibles, lo que demuestra que los asuntos de este mundo sufren infinitos cambios y evoluciones, que la suerte reúne a las parejas predestinadas a través de las más extrañas e imprevisibles coincidencias. No hay nada imposible.
~ Mo Yan
Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.
~ Mohnish Pabrai
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
~ Moliere
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
~ Montesquieu
Barney said that everybody deserves to have something good in their life at least once. I have. More than once.
~ Morris Gleitzman
I'm looking over a four-leaf cloverThat I overlooked before.
~ Unknown
Discovery requires serendipity. But serendipity is not a chance event alone. It is a process in which a chance event is seized upon by a creative person who chooses to pay attention to the event, unravel its mystery, and find a proper application for it.
~ Unknown
maximin, and it is the very least that A can be sure of getting. In this game, if A plays "Favor X," "Favor Y," and "Dodge Issue," these minimum values would be 10, 45 and 10,
~ Unknown
Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car accidents people die every day. Same with fighters: some die, some get hurt, some go on. You just don't let yourself believe it will happen to you.
~ Muhammad Ali
If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.
~ Muqtada al Sadr
The golden dice still hung from the windscreen; he reached out and snagged them before they escaped.
~ Mur Lafferty
Life is full of uncertainties, perhaps one day some unforeseen circumstance would bring her into his life once more
~ Murasaki Shikibu
AÅŸk da bir nasip iÅŸidir.Herkese nasip olmaz.
~ Unknown