Quotes About Chance

Since when do we even play games?" "Since when don't we play games? Games of life, games of death. Games of love, of hope, of chance, of despair, and of all the myriad wonders in between." I rolled my eyes at the newcomer. "Hello, Carter.

What was that you showed Sonya?" Dimitri suddenly joined Rose on the screen. She shot him an amused look. "Easy, comrade. You'll get your chance to lecture them too." "Geez," said Adrian. "How many other people are there lurking off-screen?

Hope implies that you think you have a chance at something.

No one would have guessed this: that living as a Strigoi had hardened his heart, killing any chance of him loving anyone. Killing any chance of him loving me . And I was pretty sure that if that was the case, then part of me would die too.

My mother had never openly protested my relationship with Sydney. Really, there'd been no chance. I'd simply shown up at Court with a bride in tow, and no one had been able to put asunder those whom the state of Nevada had brought together.

Well, I'm glad we got a lead on Jill," she said. "But you guys really should have been more careful about—" "What was that you showed Sonya?" Dimitri suddenly joined Rose on the screen. She shot him an amused look. "Easy, comrade. You'll get your chance to lecture them too." "Geez," said Adrian. "How many other people are there lurking off-screen?

But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big but--not impossible.

That however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

gambling's not a sin provided that you always win.

Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win.

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw

good luck' follows careful preparation; 'bad luck' comes from sloppiness.

There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

No, he could not swallow the "just-happened" theory, popular as it was with men who called themselves scientists. Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe—random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

I don't gamble, if you will concede that poker is a game of skill.

The Universe was a silly place at best . . . but the least likely explanation for it was the no-explanation of random chance, the conceit that abstract somethings 'just happened' to be atoms that 'just happened' to get together in ways which 'just happened' to look like consistent laws and some configurations 'just happened' to possess self-awareness and that two 'just happened' to be the Man from Mars and a bald-headed old coot with Jubal inside.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe. Do you intend to enter this?

Random' and 'chance' are not related. 'Random chance' is a nonsense expression

We have already explained that, of course — even a stopped clock is right twice a day. Besides, it was only coincidence. (Remember that phrase. It is the self-hypnotic chant by which the New Inquisition banishes all evidence it does not like. We will hear it often.)

Luck is the residue of design," I said.