Quotes About Chance

To a man who has not succeeded we say 'You made a mistake'. To a man who ha lost at the lottery, 'You had bad luck'.

So much of what we are then has been completely outside of our control and is not our fault. •

Spinoza had argued that God, synonymous with nature, was immutable and eternal, leaving no room for chance. Agreeing with Spinoza, Einstein sought the invariant rules governing nature's mechanisms. He was absolutely determined to prove that the world was absolutely determined.

Sometimes, war being the unjust and drastic creature it is, those in whom he invested hopes took an arrow in the chest, the useless, by chance, thrived to irritate him another day.

Never get married in the morning–you never know who you might meet that night.

Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night.

A man ought to be free to find his reason. Not that freedom alone will serve it up: it requires the gods' own fury of luck to get two people to meet.

Don't Expect What Goes Around to Come Around. Total jerks and evil people often get all the good breaks. Being nice guarantees nothing. Good things happen to bad people. Sometimes, things just don't "balance out" or "work out for the best.

There are a few scattered moments in one's life when everything seems possible.

Heads, you win. Tails, he loses.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Patience, patience. Patience dans l'azur chaque atome de silence est la chance d'un fruit mûr !

It is only by chance that we are reminded of the permanent circumstances of our life.

As for the world, all reality has no other excuse for existence except to offer the poet the chance to play a sublime match against it -- a match that is list in advance.

Each of them, all unknowing, fairly gives its due to each chance of life, to each germ of death within itself.

Although we usually fail to think of it in this way, the world around us today is just one of countless possible worlds. The millions of species of plants, animals, and insects we see around us are the expression of myriad interacting processes, including chance -- perhaps especially chance. At any point in its prehistory, a species might just easily have taken a different direction, given a slightly altered confluence of events, thus leaving today's world a slightly different place.

There was plenty of room for magic in any race, too, for chance and for grit, for tragedy, if an animal went down, for unexpected reversals at the tape. I had always loved all of it—even what couldn't be controlled or predicted.

Simply, this is what she believed: she believed that the universe showed each of us certain things, that it made certain things open. Many people lived a peace life with nothing ever happening to them. But into some families other things fell. Some families were afflicted with random tragedies - car accidents, plane accidents, hang gliding accidents, bus crashes, knifing, drownings, scarves getting caught under the wheels of their Rolls Royces, breaking their necks.

A good man has as much chance of dying as a bad one. Maybe more so.

You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.

Since no safety can there be 'Gainst the force of destiny, And the inclemency of fate;

Luck is statistics taken personally.

You have no chance of scaring me with death, all the fear possible is contained in life.

Not only does god definitely play dice … he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.