Quotes About Chance

An unlikely event is likely to happen because there are so many unlikely events that could happen.

Of all possible worlds this was the one in which I had landed.

fortune holds some gifts in store for those who try

Expectancy is the seed that helps the impossible to be made possible.

Go and wake up your luck.

odds might be good, but the stakes were prohibitively high. He

What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know...I felt that by walking away I was abandoning [them], that I spent my entire life, day after day, abandoning people.

What if she was meant to be, or could have been, someone important in my life? I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.

I think that's what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by. How do you know?

Creo que eso es lo que me asusta: el carácter azaroso de todo. Que las personas que podrían ser importantes para ti pasen por tu lado y desaparezcan. O que pases por su lado y las dejes atrás ¿Cómo podrías saberlo?

Se nella mia vita quella donna fosse stata destinata a diventare importante? Credo che sia questo a farmi paura: la casualità di tutto. Persone che per te potrebbero essere importanti ti passano accanto e ne vanno. E tu farai altrettanto. Come si fa a saperlo? ..... Andandomene mi sembrava di abbandonarlo, di passar la vita, giorno dopo giorno, a abbandonare la gente.

Fate offers sweet melons to some, sour melons to others,

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial - or at least less horrible. Prove to me that there is a God and I will really begin to despair.

getting a second chance is the greatest human dream and delusion we have. It even outranks religion.

That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty.

Funny how different life could be, so many things that make you take one route instead of another. If only we could live them all.

Cilv?kiem, kuriem ir iekš?jie resursi, pareizie notikumi iest?jas. Tie izskat?s p?c nejauš?b?m. Bet tie rodas aiz nepieciešam?bas.

Do you think that people determine their own lives, Smilla?" "The details," I say, "but the big things happen on their own.

If you remember," he said, "and have a past, then you can be given the blame and be punished. See – if you don't remember anything, you don't have time like other people. It's a bit like being crazy, so you get taken into protective custody. Then there's a chance. " —

If in doubt, always attempt to force the hand of chance.

You can explain coincidence to me in mathematics all you like, but it won't kill the magic or the mystery.

but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”

The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.

I saw something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong; neither is the bread to the wise, nor the wealth to the intelligent, nor the favor to the skillful. For time and chance happen to all.