Quotes About Chance

From my point of view, your life is already a miracle of chance waiting for you to shape its destiny.

Just because you're down to your last strike, you're not out yet. You can always do more. You'll always have more at-bats to take. That's true in baseball, in rescuing animals, and in life generally.

Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.

Gambling can turn into a dangerous two-way street when you least expect it. Weird things happen suddenly, and your life can go all to pieces.

So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

But to us, probability is the very guide of life.

We are far too willing to reject the belief that much of what we see in life is random.

Always examine the dice.

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

sometimes I think fate conspires against us. Or maybe fate conspires with us.

Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again.

Had a million different tiny things happened. Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again.

life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again.

it was always easier to regret the things you had tried in life that had gone wrong rather than the things you hadn't.

And Polly nodded, and thought about the odd counterbalance of weights in the universe—how bad things could happen, and sometimes wonderful, wonderful things could happen, but you weren't always fated to be in the heart of the story; sometimes it simply wasn't about you; you didn't always get all the answers.

Maybe, she thought, everyone was only ever two feet from disaster, and it was luck, not fundamental goodness, that made all the difference.

Because life is like that, isn't it? If you thought of all the tiny things that divert your path one way or another, some good, some bad, you'd never do anything ever again. And some people don't. Some people go through life not really deciding to do much, not wanting to, always too fearful of the consequences to try something new. Of course, that in itself is also a decision.

So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that.

How crazy, how thrilling that your whole life trajectory can change in just one night.

So much of love is chance. There's something scary and wonderful about that. If Kitty had never sent those letters, if I hadn't gone to the hot tub that night, it might've been him and Gen. But she did send those letters, and I did go out there. It could have happened lots of ways. But this is the way it happened. This is the path we took. This is our story.

Okay, okay. You know I didn't mean it like that. I just mean that you should give people a chance to know you." Josh points the remote control at me and says, "If people knew you, they would love you." He sounds so matter-of-fact. Josh, you break my heart. And you're a liar. Because you know me, you know me better than almost anybody, and you don't love me.

I just hope we get away with it.

Everything made sense in that moment. This was my chance to make things right with Conrad. The way I saw it, this was what I had been waiting for and I hadn't even known it. It was like the last two months I had been sleepwalking, and now here I was, finally awake. I had a goal, a purpose.

Why not take a chance and bet on happiness?