Quotes About Chances

I feel so lucky that I had so many opportunities.

A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.)

One would think that having grown up broke would make one desperate for financial stability, eager to rest in the economic security of a good job. Rather, it gave me the freedom to take chances. I knew how to get by on next to nothing.

Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third, or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.

La vie humaine n'a lieu qu'une seule fois et nous ne pourrons jamais vérifier quelle était la bonne et quelle était la mauvaise décision, parce que, dans toute situation, nous ne pouvons décider qu'une seule fois. Il ne nous est pas donnée une deuxième, une troisième, une quatrième vie pour que nous puissions comparer différentes décisions.

Life gives you lots of chances to screw up which means you have just as many chances to get it right.

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

Lots of things have never happened before. We're only born once.

smoke twisting amongst the lights and turning the air a desolate blue, the colour of dead hopes and lost chances.

Sometimes there are no second chances at happiness. Sometimes, merely being content with your life is enough.

Opportunity only knocks so many times.

Major labels don't want to take chances on cooler, indie kind of things. People only know, unfortunately, what they're being spoon-fed.

To give up too easily leads to regret, yet trying and then failing can lead us to second chances if we do not accept it as a failure, but a chance to learn.

What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?

You have a thousand chances to make something right. That's a heck of a lot of chances, by the way. But they do run out eventually.

We are all living, at most, half of a life. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

There are, he determines, infinite ways his mother doesn't die that night and only one way she does.

There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living.

But returning to my original point, there were many other ways—indeed, infinite ways—we could have met.

And as much as a person might try to shield herself from it, the possibility for the other outcome was always there. We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the

And as much as a person might try to shield herself from it, the possibility for the other outcome was always there. We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen

Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or relinquished forever.

Art teaches us the things that reality can't. Teaches us to live with the things that seem beyond endurance. Missed chances. Failed love affairs. Suffering and death—the stuff of actual life.