Quotes About Chance

Perhaps they hadn't met for a long time. A long, long time. Perhaps when they last held each other like that, they were still young.' 'Do you mean, Manager, that they lost each other?' She was quiet for another moment. 'Yes,' she said, eventually. 'That must be it. They lost each other. And perhaps just now, just by chance, they found each other again.

Así que si lo he entendido bien..., bien, pues parece que he desperdiciado mi oportunidad.

A theoretical chance. Atlas Brookings may make a big thing of it, but it's less than two percent. That's all. Their intake of unlifteds is less than two percent.

Sabemos que está en tu mano hacerlo. Así que te estamos pidiendo que nos ayudes. Te lo plantearé de otro modo: te lo pido yo. Te pido que ayudes a mi hijo a tener una oportunidad en este mundo.

Do you mean, Manager, that they lost each other?' She was quiet for another moment. 'Yes,' she said, eventually. 'That must be it. They lost each other. And perhaps just now, just by chance, they found each other again.

With no chance to take off, I had to play my role, searching for the rendezvous spot, which gave me the excuse to look for an escape opportunity. Maybe a hole in the wall too small for Tori's mom to follow me through or a precarious stack of boxes I could topple onto her head or an abandoned hammer I could brain her with. I'd never "brained" anyone in my life, but with Tori's mom, I was willing to try.

There's a time and place for spontaneity

Quel giorno la vita e la morte erano state distribuite come carte da gioco.

pero es una carta que solo se juega una vez, y prefiero reservarla para una mano ganadora.

sure their gamble

O entonces o nunca.

The game goes round and round, to the rattle of dice and the shuffle of play money.

Chang! With light and sound and numbers round and round in a whirlwind, and maybe you win with what you end up with and maybe you lose and have to play again. Pay the man for another spin, son, pay the man.

I knew even before we got it rolling that this here was the type asshole that subscribed to magazines like the Nation and Atlantic and probably even read them, and that I didn't stand a snowball's chance against him in an argument; but I was too oiled too keep my mouth shut.

Meaning: Good night but stay. Viv, silent and slim as a shaft of sleepy light, stay, talk more to me with your articulate eyes. Hank, forget my words behind my words, stay, say some more. This is our chance. This is my chance. Say enough more for love or hate, enough more to make me sure of one or the other. Please stay, please stay .

A chance not taken is an opportunity missed.

BAD LUCK on the road can last only so long; then you die, or your luck improves.

I have come to regard the law courts not as a cathedral but rather as a casino.

The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

We possess nothing in the world - a mere chance can strip us of everything - except the power to say 'I.

Luck is flow and force. There's no power that can fully take that into account, fate is still wavering.

All prayers and hopes are a reaching-out for coincidences.

If a door slams shut it means that God is pointing to an open door further on down.