Quotes About Chance

To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.

Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

His membership in the human race was entirely accidental and unsolicited.

Those scientists in France Worried about raising the chance A guitar would prompt "Oui" To a stranger's startling plea Need not have been so troubled, Phone numbers more than doubled.

Fate, Chance, God's Will — we all try to account for our lives somehow. What are the chances that two raindrops, flung from the heavens, will merge on a windowpane? Gotta be Fate.

Sometimes in life you have an appointment with destiny, and sometimes you just have to get destiny to squeeze you in.

If I were Opportunity, I wouldn't just knock, you'd have to sign.

It comes down to whether you believe in seven miraculous escapes a week or one guardian angel.

Our destiny hides among our free choices, disguised as the free-est of all.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.

Usually the woman has an appointment with destiny, and the man just happens to be there.

People usually lived or died of dumb luck. Not because something mystical cares.

there is always the chance that some experiment will show that those laws of motion and gravity are incorrect. That is the nature of scientific theories and laws: They are falsifiable but not provable.

the MO Operation presented a golden opportunity, the chance to catch half of America's carrier strength with all of Japan's.

As Pasteur himself commented, "Chance favors only the prepared mind.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands

el azar sólo favorece a la mente preparada".

What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth. Leaving things to chance is a recipe for disaster, and reveals that we do not take love and romance very seriously.

Sigue la ciega Fortuna / a la audacia ciega y loca, / y muchas veces los cuerdos / lo son haciendo las cosas / sin dar tiempo a la cordura / de examinarlas juiciosa.

Cuanto menos intentemos, menos riesgo tendremos de fracasar.

We forget the role that luck may have played in the success, or the contributions of others.

So even when luck has only a minor influence on performance, the most talented and hardworking of all contestants will usually be outdone by a rival who is almost as talented and hardworking but also considerably luckier.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.