Chance Quotes

Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands...

Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of...

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling im...

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the...

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation i...

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a s...

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible chang...

The clock holds me nowhere. Nowhere. Nowhere. There is nothing else but now and the shifting depth o...

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

the past is so hard to shift. It comes with us like a chaperon, standing between us and the newness ...

We live in a universe driven by chance,” his father had said once, “but the bullshit artists all wan...

We take the elevator to the third floor, to the office of Dr. Harrison Chance. His name alone has pu...

It is one of the issues that will have to be worked through however let me make the point and I thin...

…   not my own opinion, but my wife’s: Yesterday, when weary with writing, I was called to supper, a...

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I ...

It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

Most of us are not raised to actively encounter our destiny. We may not know that we have one. As ch...

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and es...

It's funny. No matter how hard you try, you can't close your heart forever. And the minute you open ...

It’s always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I’m wrong, or I’m right, either you bring...

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Chance favours the prepared mind.

In the field of observation chance favours the prepared mind.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that thro...

It should be remarked that, as the principle of liberty is better understood, and more nobly interpr...

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

Mathematically speaking, the probable (that in 6,000,000,000 throws with a regular six-sided die the...

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of...

Tis no wonder, says one of the ancients, that chance has so great a dominion over us, since it is by...

We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, i...

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value o...

They had been talking about his friend Z. when she announced, "If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly ha...

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessa...

I have been enormously impressed by the role that pure chance plays in determining our life history....

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians who...

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems.

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as r...

Every time I read to her, it was like I was courting her, because sometimes, just sometimes, she wou...

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole ch...

The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.

You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do...

If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. ...

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

I'm just really thankful to have the chance to portray a character you don't see every day.

Chance" is just a word expressing ignorance

Chance was just an order that you hadn't yet perceived.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by And that has made all the dif...

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

It is either coincidence piled on top of coincidence," said Hollus, "or it is deliberate design.

If someone offers him enough gold, it becomes a toss of the dice, and not even Mat Cauthon could say...

No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the pol...

If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind y...

So much of what happens by chance forms what becomes your life.

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its su...

It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into...

You are ass and I like class. I like diamonds, you are a glass. You brown mouse, I like black cats. ...

Study history, Alleluia. In this century history stopped paying attention to the old psychological o...

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship i...

I make the most of all that comes And the least of all that goes.

The world is like a reverse casino. In a casino, if you gamble long enough, you're certainly going t...

Mankind accepts good fortune as his due, but when bad occurs, he thinks it was aimed at him, done to...

So I draw because I feel like it might be my only real chance to escape the reservation.

But how can I get enough experience if they don't give me a chance to get experience?

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best li...

I have noticed that even those who assert that everything is predestined and that we can change noth...

I'm a great believer in luck. I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing...

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own re...

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into off...

Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hop...

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, yo...

It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequa...

We are only chance visitants to this jungle of blind mutations. The natural world existed when we di...

Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer.

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone ...

But chance has a taste for conspiracy.

... plunged into chance,--that is to say, swallowed up in Providence

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and...

Since I sometimes won the race between my fancy and nature’s reality, the deception was bearable. Un...

Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, ch...

Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMa...

Scientists rightly resist invoking the supernatural in scientific explanations for fear of committin...

The very comprehensibility of the world points to an intelligence behind the world. Indeed, science ...

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of a...

I think… that love encompasses the experience of the possible transition from the pure randomness of...

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how c...

It has been frequently remarked, that it seems to have been reserved to the people of this country t...