Quotes About Chance

I could have lied. I could have fought. But desperate times call for desperate measures, so I took a chance and called upon a Gallagher Girl's weapon of last resort. I flirted

Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.

there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.

If it works, it works,' Kat told him. 'And if it doesn't?' he asked. She looked at him. 'If it doesn't, then I've heard Monaco has the nicest prisons in all of Europe.' 'It does,' both Hamish and Angus said in unison. And with that, it was decided.

We were two girls who got lucky, and luck's not a skill that anyone can learn

I couldn't help smiling back. Maya had decided opinions and didn't keep them to herself. "Jones had his chance, and he blew it. There's an old Navajo saying that I think applies here: 'You snooze, you lose.'

Well, it's nice to have a dream. But it's even nicer when there's a remote possibility of it coming true.

Sometimes destiny lies just outside of our reach.

I mean, yeah, maybe our fate is sometimes fixed and unchangeable, but there are other times when its shaped purely by the actions we take...

Maybe some things are just meant to be. maybe some things just happen, no matter what.

Quinn," Alaric said quietly. "His aim is to ignite your temper. Perhaps you might allow me the chance to assist you this one time?" "Fine, but you seem to be making a habit of it," she shot back. "We can discuss that later, too. Be my guest."

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I think anyone would accept that if you set it up properly, not only will you get better environmental outcomes, you have a chance to create more wealth with the available resource.

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

When I'm ready to fight, my opponent has a better chance of surviving a forest fire wearing gasoline drawers.

I've never been one to bet on the weather.

I find that predicting the course of our lives is like predicting the weather. You might be able to predict your future in the short term, but the longer you look ahead, the less likely you are to be correct.

You never know what the weather's gonna do. And the same with music, you never know if radio's going to play your single.

Within a five-month period, I got 'Weeds,' 'Supernatural,' and 'Grey's.' I think a lot of it had to do with luck.

Then I was actually meant to be going home but for some reason I decided to extend for a week. Then on the final day by extension, finally an audition came through, and it was 'Into the Badlands'.

Life is a poker game, and everybody has to show their cards.

High-stakes gamblers love heart-racing Omaha-type action; normal poker players don't!

Poker has such an element of competitivness that other games don't have.

No, that's poker. To win, you've gotta get damned lucky.

The best part about poker is there's no down side.