Quotes About Chance

I have made a decision that in future, I will only take on movies that have a better than 75 per cent chance of being made, and that's not easy.

I never thought I would really like to be on television, and the story of me getting into it was quite lucky, really, just a series of chance encounters. So I am not exactly putting myself across as a celebrity, although people might perceive me that way.

I haven't had the occasion to meet Adele. She lives in England. So when I'm flying, or when she comes over here, perhaps we'll have a chance. I think she's a very fine singer, a very strong writer and performer.

Whenever you're called on to make up your mind, and you're hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you'll find, is simply by spinning a penny. No - not so that chance shall decide the affair while you're passively standing there moping; but the moment the penny is up in the air, you suddenly know what you're hoping.

Nobody can be lucky all the time, so when your luck deserts you in some fashion don't think you've been abandoned in your prime, but rather that you're saving up your ration.

To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.

Those who believe that the world of being is governed by luck or chance and that it depends upon material causes are far removed from the divine and from the notion of the One.

When opportunity knocks, some people are in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day.

If we don't take advantage of the opportunity that's in front of us in any moment - to awaken, to se, to know, to break free- then we may be giving up our very last chance.

Your existence cannot be a mere stochastic accident.

Maybe your story is written, but you still have a chance to strike it off and overwrite it

An enigma is a chance for you to do your uprising.

Decision, not coincidence, determines destiny.

Luck is the idol of the idle.

He who trusts all things to chance, makes a lottery of his life

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.

In a bet there is a fool and a thief.

A fool may chance to put something into a wise man's head.

All is luck or ill luck in this world.

Fortune favours fools

Fortune helps fools

The better the gambler, the worse the man.

While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity.