Quotes About Chance

MyÅ›lÄ™, ?e dostajemy takie karty, jak nam rozdajÄ…. Nie mógÅ'byÅ› ich jeszcze raz przetasowa?, rozdawco? – rozmyÅ›laÅ'. -Nie. Karty rozdajÄ… tylko raz, a potem je zbierasz i grasz nimi. PotrafiÄ™ zagra?, je?eli tylko wyciÄ…gnÄ™ coÅ› dobrego – powiedziaÅ' do portretu, na którym to nie wywarÅ'o ?adnego wra?enia.

T. H. Huxley, the nineteenth-century evolutionary biologist and author of the "infinite monkey theorem." Huxley's theory says that if you provide infinite monkeys with infinite typewriters, some monkey somewhere will eventually create a masterpiece—

I think it is more than chance. It also tells me that if we want to avoid going extinct, we have to realize we're already at war with an enemy that's master genetic engineering and is conducting trillions of experiments every second, figuring out new ways to kill us.

Sometimes serendipity must be seduced.

I think it is more than chance. It also tells me that if we want to avoid going extinct, we have to realize we're already at war with an enemy that's master genetic engineering and is conducting trillions of experiments every second, figurig out new ways to kill us.

Fortune is a liberal mistress; I have often said so, and now begin to experience

Sometimes, what looks like bad luck may turn out to be good luck and vice versa

But I didn't trust luck. Luck wasn't reliable.

I didn't even have a chance to groan before she'd put down her plate and sat down. It was too early for me to interact with the living, and in spite of my general fondness for Sera, she still was another entity and thus a toll on my exhausted mind.

So in the end careful interviewing doesn't guarantee you anything, it merely increases your odds of getting lucky.

every myth, every fable must have some roots. Something lies among those roots.' 'It does. ... Most often a dream, a wish, a desire, a yearning. Faith that there are no limits to possibility. And occasionally chance.

Prawda jest córÄ… czasu poczÄ™tÄ… w przypadkowym i krótkotrwaÅ'ym romansie ze zbiegiem okolicznoÅ›ci.

Nunca se tiene una segunda oportunidad de causar una primera impresión.

Shall I tell you good Witcher, what good people are ? They're people whom fate hasn't blessed with the chance of profiting from the benefits of being evil

There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression. Come on, let's have a beer instead.

El cobarde muere cien veces. El hombre valiente muere sólo una vez. Pero la Señora Fortuna al atrevido ayuda, al cobarde siempre despreció tiene.

Non c'è mai una seconda occasione per fare la prima impressione

The mill of destiny is turning, the querns of fate are grinding… Whatever is destined must occur.

There is never a second opportunity to make a first impression.

S? takie zbiegi okoliczno?ci, które przypominaj? wyrafinowany plan.

I take the opportunity each day offers.

stop for a one-shot camera. Twenty-

The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.