Quotes About Chances

Finally, she mused that human existence is as brief as the life of autumn grass, so what was there to fear from taking chances with your life?

Frazier's got two chances. Slim, and none. And Slim just left town.

Linda's presentation of the 'facts' had been so gruesome that the children left Alconleigh howling dismally, their nerves permanently impaired, their future chances of a sane and happy sex life much reduced.

I have a habit of leaving places at the wrong time, just when something big may have happened for me.

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Four things come not back: the spoken word, the spent arrow, the past, the neglected opportunity.

I don't. We each have free will. There may be higher purpose, but the actual path each of us takes to get there, and whether we choose to accept it at all, is up to us." She turns to me. "If you can't let go of that fear of making the wrong decision, you will never be able to take the chances you must take to live life fully.

If you can't let go of that fear of making the wrong decision, you will never be able to take the chances you must take to live life fully.

La vida es demasiado corta para rechazar ofertas así.

The only time you ever run out of chances is when you stop taking them.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

It was all a matter of missed connections, bad timing, blundering in the dark. We were always in the right place at the wrong time, always just missing each other, always just a few inches from figuring the whole thing out. That's what the story boils down to, I think. A series of lost chances. All the pieces were there from the beginning, but no one knew how to put them together.

Las oportunidades perdidas forman parte de la vida igual que las oportunidades aprovechadas, y una historia no puede detenerse en lo que podría haber sido.

lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

They are our great mystery. They are America's great otherwise. People fall back in the face of an impenetrable mystery and refuse it. Yes, they take captives. Sometimes they kill women and old people. But the settlers are people who shouldn't be where they are in the first place and they know it and they take their chances.

All the choices we can't see. Every moment.