Quotes About Chance

I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only the one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.

San?r?m ?anss?z bir y?ld?z?n alt?nda do?mu?um.

I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again.

What was Latin and the chance of tattooing compared to this?

I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne—I'd give them a chance.

He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn't do barring a miracle.

no medicine man or wise man knew why one man died and another lived. Wise men themselves often died before fools, and cowards before men who were brave.

There was no degree of competence that would assure anyone of survival, and no scale that would tell a commander which man would live and which man would die.

One little shot during a card game in Arkansas had started things happening—things he couldn't see the end of.

The luck of Teela Brown.

Then you can go home to the puppeteer worlds and tell them that mucking with human breeding habits is a chancy business. Tell them that enough Teela Browns could make a hash of all the laws of probability. Even basic physics is nothing more than probability at the atomic level. Tell them the universe is too complicated a toy for a sensibly cautious being to play with.

Danger doesn't exist for Teela Brown

maybe just once in this life someone loves us for the us we don't even know how to be yet. And if we lose him too early--in the name of all the promises in the world: a new job, a new city, an old love offering us happily ever after--we may just lose that chance to be our best self.

I don't deserve a second chance, but sometimes when someone doesn't, that's exactly when you need to give them one.

A body makes his own luck, be it good or bad.

Never bet your money on another man's game.

There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

Nothing is certain, ma petite, not even death. - Jean-Claude

Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

On the off chance that Niley was right and the spear was here, we couldn't let him have it. But it was more than that. Richard had drawn a line in the sand; good versus evil. Good can't tuck tail and run. It's against the rules. It

Laurence Sterne

Rich people scorn the way the poor buy lottery tickets, but what would you pay for an hour of untainted hope, of happiness unfettered? If the ticket had my mother's name on it I'd dance across minefields for the chance.

The problem in turning independent thinkers loose on a matter is, they tend to go beyond the theoretical and seize the chance for independent action. Thus