Quotes About Chance

Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

Her tranquillity is their astonishment. For that they come, to be amazed again that such peace is there: all they have heard, and still hear now, does not record it. Calamity shaped a life when, long ago, chance was so cruel.

Me this unchartered freedom tires;I feel the weight of chance desires;My hopes no more must change their name,I long for a repose that ever is the same.

The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time.

Saving a life is not a matter of skill, it's a matter of opportunity.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing from something.

Your chances of winnin' the lottery get a lot better if you buy a ticket.

You were saved because you were the first.You were saved because you were the last.Alone. With others.On the right. On the left.Because it was raining. Because of the shade.Because the day was sunny.

I am who I am. A coincidence no less unthinkable than any other.

Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.

This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating.

Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.

Little by little it dawned on me that there was a purpose to life. That we had the chance to use this precious existence to develop our most altruistic motives and compassionate instincts. To be the best that we could be!

There's no such thing as coincidence – only controlled bursts of fate.

It's like Russian Roulette, one in six'll kill you.

Bill did not believe in luck. Bad luck or good. Bill knew it was never a matter of luck, never a question of luck. Bill knew luck was just another excuse for failure.

Its evolutionary adaptability is largely gone. Ecologically, it has become moribund. Sheer chance, among other factors, is working against it. The toilet of its destiny has been flushed.

And hopefully nothing will happen." But of course, as she well knew, something always does happen. It's just a question of what and when.

This is the world in which everyone is sensitised to risk but indifferent to fate.

It's good to be good, but it's better to be lucky.

Maybe some people love the thrill of being possibly rumbled at any moment. Who knows? At any rate, the big day has finally arrived ... the sword has now fallen. Did it live up to what you imagined? Did you get the ecstasy you craved – some death and rebirth experience, perhaps? Well, now you have the chance to be reborn, as far from us as you can get.

que las personas nacen como nace una canción, que suena de pronto. No naces bajo un cálculo, sino en una cascada de accidentes y azares, lo que debería ayudarnos a vivir con mayor levedad y no lo contrario. Las raíces se convierten en algo primario, porque nos atornillan al mundo. Pero las raíces no dejan volar.

The Duchess looked at Chloe with a look that said, You had the chance to tell him, but you chose to carry on the lie. How do I know that the Duchess's look said this? Because there is an excellent book in my local library entitled One Thousand Doggy Expressions Explained by Professor L. Stone. I digress.

Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!