Quotes About Chance

It's funny how much of childhood is about proximity. Like who your best friend is is directly correlated to how close your houses are; who you sit next to in music is all about how close your names are in the alphabet. Such a game of chance.

Well, get into a new one. Life is short." For once, Alicia and Stormy are on the same page.

That's a tiny inconsequential risk compared to what could be gained.

I wake up the next morning renewed. I am a girl with a plan. I'm just going to have to avoid Josh forever. It's as simple as that. And if not forever, then at least until this dies down and he forgets about my letter. There's still the tiny chance he never even got it. Perhaps whoever mailed Peter's only sent the one! You never know.

UNC is a choice I didn't even know I had, like a door that magically appeared, a door that could lead anywhere.

In Machiavelli, as in Darwin, nature is set against nature. Fortuna, impersonal blind chance, the agency of floods, havoc-wreaking storms and plagues, confronts virtù, the power of mind to outwit the entropic, leveling tendencies of physical forces. The essence of virtù is to be clever and strong, and it is ethically neutral.

You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Randomness, luck, chance, fate. This is modern man's answer to the age-old question, "Why?

Often unwilling to accept the fact that God is working because they don't understand how He is working, they have chosen to substitute the doctrine of chance for the doctrine of divine providence.

A lot of Christians are doing that for God today. Often unwilling to accept the fact that God is working because they don't understand how He is working, they have chosen to substitute the doctrine of chance for the doctrine of divine providence.

Everything is an accident.

I mean that the book had better make life better better in at least six or seven definite ways immediately. Also, there had better be somewhere in it a method for handling fortune and chance so as to best provoke the most complicated, involved, and glorious refractions of what's possible.

if there was any easy money lying around, no one would be forcing it into your pocket.

would have no chance to leave a better one.

There's no such thing as coincidence ... only convenience.

Life is a series of random collisions.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Good or ill, life is life; you only realize that when you have to risk it.

No soldier outlives a thousand chances.

It is just as much a matter of chance that I am still alive as that I might have been hit. In a bomb-proof dug-out I may be smashed to atoms and in the open may survive ten hours' bombardment unscathed. No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

Er war nicht töricht genug, nicht an Zufälle zu glauben. Keine Zufälle gab es nur in guter Literatur – das Leben war täglich voll der albernsten.

Jeder Soldat bleibt nur durch tausend Zufälle am Leben. Und jeder Soldat glaubt und vertraut dem Zufall

There had never been any more between us than chance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtedness and binds closer than much else