Quotes About Chance

I don't believe for a minute-that we wouldn't have become friends somehow-that an unexploded bomb wouldn't have gone off and blown us both into the same crater, or that God himself wouldn't have come along and knocked our heads together in a flash of green sunlight. But it wouldn't have been likely .

In either case, for the moment, luck was on their side.

My opinion is that the chances of getting to Paulet Is. now are about 1 in 10. . . .

A forbidding-looking place, certainly, but that only made it seem the more pitiful. It was the refuge of twenty-two men who, at that very moment, were camped on a precarious, storm-washed spit of beach, as helpless and isolated from the outside world as if they were on another planet. Their plight was known only to the six men in this ridiculously little boat, whose responsibility now was to prove that all the laws of chance were wrong—and return with help. It was a staggering trust.

For according to his beliefs there was no Chance, and could be no ultimate shirking, and to avoid a problem was merely to waste time and lose opportunities for development.

Maybe coincidence never means the way you want it to. Because if it did it wouldn't be coincidence, would it?

Change is the nature of luck.

We need both luck and justice to get to live the life we're meant for, she says.

I have often wondered why I've survived. Yet I know the answer. It's luck. Luck is a greater factor than anyone who succeeds ever wants to believe. The idea that one is destined to be the person who remains standing, the person smart enough to make all the money, to retain the beauty, is far more seductive. If there is good luck, there is bad luck. That is a reality no one wants to contemplate. But it is reality. I am merely lucky to be alive.

Here's the thing about luck...you don't know if it's good or bad until you have some perspective.

With that solitude came the greatest luxuries: the time to read, the opportunity to wander, and the chance to think new thoughts.

I didn't care much what happened to me, so chance didn't matter.

At any moment a force from nowhere could rip me out of my life. I could die of traffic or weather, I could die of war or my heart.

the rags of chance.

Sometimes Some lies Can take a minute To fully realize His tears Your eyes Thirty seconds to apologize You give it one more chance Just like the time before But he already know you'd give a hundred more Until that night in bed You wake up in a sweat You're racing to the door Can't take it anymore

Misschien meer geluk in je volgende incarnatie, Mamba, dacht ze.

Often what you humans call chance is instead the workings of a deeper pattern, which the casual eye cannot easily perceive.

The future is uncertain and thus holds the possibility of happiness for us all;

In a second, fate can send a bus crashing into you and change your life---or not.

There was such a thing as luck, but to acknowledge its existence was to hold two fingers up to fate.

Why didn't you shoot him?" "I'm a changed man, boss." Schaffer sighed. "Something splendid has just come into my life." "Besides, you didn't have a chance." "Besides, as you say, I didn't have a chance.

Talent and intelligence, not to mention tireless hard work, got lab scientists through the door, but—this was the dirty secret—you needed luck.

Folks, the trajectory we were on prior to the virus was taking us towards destruction. God has intervened. He's given us a chance for some personal evaluations, some individual reflection to turn our hearts and our faces to Him.

There's always more than one path, and to think otherwise is what resigns you to fate.