Quotes About Chances

The bottom line is, life is for living, sweetie. It's for taking chances and trying to grab up every little piece of happiness you can latch on to.

Why, he wondered, was it so hard to see humankind as capable of creating miracles? Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it-second chances when all hope was lost.

And the law of probability ensures that the more new people you know, the more opportunities will come your way and the more help you'll get at critical junctures in your career.

Each lifetime had been different, as each choice is always different, unpredictable in its outcome or effect. Yet those choices had to be made, Jeff thought. He'd learned to accept the potential losses, in the hope that they would be outweighed by the gains. The only certain failure, he knew, and the most grievous, would be never to risk at all.

The more we busy ourselves with dreams, the more we shall see such coincidences — chances. Remember that the oldest Chinese scientific book is about the possible chances of life.

Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.

Choices are the hinges of destiny. Edwin Markham

Throughout our lives we miss opportunities to experience wonderful occurrences. It seems as though the excuse has to be lack of time. But we have choice as to our time is spent.

We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.

We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anithing can happen in just one day

customers often bend over backward to give market share leaders second and third chances, bringing cries of anguish from their competitors who would never be granted such grace.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.

Eleven out of twelve work fine. I'd say that's better chances than getting an orgasm with a blind date and women still try.

While there I had picked up a few vital crumbs of information, and I knew the first twenty-four hours of any investigation were crucial. The more time passed, the colder the trail grew. In a missing person case, that meant the chances of finding that missing person alive dropped by the hour. The first twenty-four had come and gone. The first forty-eight were waving good-bye from the window of the "you suck at your job" train.

THE THING ABOUT second chances is knowing what to do with them if they're given to you.

People ask if I would do the TT myself - the actual romance of doing it is in me but the chances are zero. I can't belittle the talent and the bravery and the endurance that goes into a race like this. The competitors are some of the bravest men on the planet and it is one of the biggest challenges a racer can take on.

I long ago came to the conclusion that all life is six to five against.

In speculative buildings, which is most of our business, there are really only three chances to make architecture: the lobby or entrance sequence, the top and the elevator cab.

Choices are the hinges of destiny.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances, calculate the risks involved, estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

We are less likely to fail if we measure with judgement our chances and our capabilities.

The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.