Quotes About Chance

Both of them? Mat spluttered. Light! Two! Oh, burn me! He's the luckiest man in the world or the biggest fool since creation!

As she spoke, the dice started tumbling inside his head.

Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn't mean it has to be bad. Even if it's something you are sure you would never have chosen in a hundred years. 'Better ten days of love than years of regretting,' " she quoted.

We'll toss the dice however they fall, And snuggle the girls be they short or tall, Then follow young Mat whenever he calls, To dance with Jak o' the Shadows.

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say how they'll land.

Its time to role the dice.

They have no Aes Sedai touching the True Source to protect them. Blacksmith, perhaps the walls have weakened enough for the Dark One himself to touch events. Not with a free hand, or we'd be done already, but maybe tiny shiftings in the threads. A chance turning of one corner instead of another, a chance meeting, a chance word, or what seems like chance, and they could be so far under the Shadow not even Moiraine could bring them back.

Coincidence is how being ta'veren works," Verin said. "You find a discarded object that is of great use to you, or happen to meet an individual at just the right time. Random chance randomly works in your favor. Or haven't you noticed?" She smiled. "Care to throw some dice on it?

The Dark One," Lan said, "cannot be defeated without chancing risks. But we are alive at this moment, and before us is the hope of remaining alive. Do not surrender before you are beaten.

Tiraremos los dados y que caigan como caigan, achucharemos a las chicas ya sean bajas o altas, y luego seguiremos al joven Mat, vaya donde vaya, a bailar con la Dama de las Sombras que nos aguarda.

Sometimes"— he gave a meaningful look at Tam—"you have to take a chance, even if it's a poor one.

Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution. — WWII German U-Boat Commander Eric Topp

Reputations were made quickly over the green felt tables ? with the roll of the dice or a turn of a card.

War did not come like a hurricane, Rorimer realized, destroying everything in its path. It came like a tornado, touching down in patches, taking with it one life while leaving the next person unharmed.

dopamine is not about the happiness of reward. It's about the happiness of pursuit of reward that has a decent chance of occurring.

even what seems stable and true skids upon a razor balanced upon another razor perched upon the thinnest, keenest slice of luck.

And where I've judged, I now see a divine order to and in everything. Where I've seen flaw, I now see perfection—the perfection of lives unfolding just as we planned them. Such unfolding is evident not only in our challenges, but also in the most minute, seemingly insignificant aspects of life. Each leaf that falls from a tree, each blade of grass that bends in the wind … nothing happens by chance, and all is in divine order. Always.

Las oportunidades van y vienen, y ser capaz de tomar decisiones es una habilidad fundamental.

So we stay with what is safe, and opportunities pass us by.

The difference between a gambler and an investor is simple. For a gambler, investing is a game of chance. For an investor, investing is a game of skill.

It is not gambling if you know what you're doing. It is gambling if you're just throwing money into a deal and praying.

Ilse and I hunted all over the old orchard today for a four-leaved clover and couldn't find one. Then I found one in a clump of clover by the dairy steps tonight when I was straining the milk and never thinking of clovers. Cousin Jimmy says that is the way luck always comes, and it is no use to look for it.

What is to be, will be, said Mrs. Rachel gloomily, and what isn't to be happens sometimes.

I have only the one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.