Chance Quotes

Hey I'm sorry about the other day. Didn't mean to give you a hard time, I --- He held up his hands. It's no problem. And I didn't mean to be pushy. But i've seen a lot of people let the bad around them make them hard or stubborn. In the end, they miss the chance to make their world bette because they only see the worst in it. There was still something about the tone of his voice and his features that made me feel like I knew him. I know what you mean. I shook my head. I don't want to be like that. But I get so angry. Sometimes I feel like I know too much, or that I've done things I can't make right, and it just hovers over me. And when I see things happen that shouldn't... You don't know what to do with yourself. Exactly. He nodded. Well, I'd start by thinking about what's good. Then I'd ask myself how I could make that good even better. I laughed. That doesn't make sense.He stood. You just think about it a little.

~ Kiera Cass

I didn't know what kind of creature I was supposed to be until I woke on a hospital cot and was informed I had died. Nobody ever told me what I was. I figured I was broken. But it turns out that my scars were divine signs that I was granted a chance to begin again.

~ Hannah Ashworth

Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.

~ Eric Chaisson

If we are merely a chance product of ‘random happenstance’ and nothing more, doesn’t it strike you as a bit odd that we have the ability to contemplate the question of ‘random happenstance’ with such methodical complexity?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

A totally blind process can by definition lead to anything, it can even lead to vision itself.

~ Jacques Monod

When one ponders on the tremendous journey of evolution over the past three billion years or so, the prodigious wealth of structures it has engendered, and the extraordinarily effective teleonomic performances of living beings from bacteria to man, one may well find oneself beginning to doubt again whether all this could conceivably be the product of an enormous lottery presided over by natural selection, blindly picking the rare winners from among numbers drawn at random. [Nevertheless,] a detailed review of the accumulated modern evidence [shows] that this conception alone is compatible with the facts.

~ Jacques Monod

Even today a good many distinguished minds seem unable to accept or even to understand that from a source of noise natural selection alone and unaided could have drawn all the music of the biosphere. In effect natural selection operates upon the products of chance and can feed nowhere else; but it operates in a domain of very demanding conditions, and from this domain chance is barred. It is not to chance but to these conditions that evolution owes its generally progressive course, its successive conquests, and the impression it gives of a smooth and steady unfolding.

~ Jacques Monod

Might one not say that in the chance combination of nature's production, since only those endowed with certain relations of suitability could survive, it is no cause for wonder that this suitability is found in all species that exist today? Chance, one might say, produced an innumerable multitude of individuals; a small number turned out to be constructed in such fashion that the parts of the animal could satisfy its needs; in another, infinitely greater number, there was neither suitability nor order: all of the later have perished; animals without a mouth could not live, others lacking organs for reproduction could not perpetuate themselves: the only ones to have remained are those in which were found order and suitability; and these species, which we see today, are only the smallest part of what blind fate produced.

~ Pierre-Louis Moreau De Maupertuis

...Tell me you believe that our lives are anything more than a ridiculous cascade of random chances.

~ Krystal Sutherland

Not every given chance deserves love, but every love deserves a given chance.

~ Soar

She had known the kind of love that was worth risking everything for, the kind of love that was as rare as a glimpse of heaven.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Divine open doors are not for the arrogant, adulterers and wasters, they are only meant for the humble that will be wise with the opportunity and blessing that comes from them.

~ Bamigboye Olurotimi

Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we haven't made a choice.

~ Deyth Banger

Change isn’t a choice, it’s already happening. You are atoms and molecules in motion… you can’t avoid change, you ARE change. The question is whether you will EMBRACE the power of change to enhance your life or continue to exhaust yourself in the pointless endeavor to halt it.

~ Steve Maraboli

By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities.

~ Marian Deegan

What I do . . . the path I tread . . . it brings some choices that test me hard.

~ Juliet Marillier

Simply giving something ‘a shot’ is not giving something our ‘best,’ for our best is made up of as many ‘shots’ as it takes in order to be our best.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It was more important for me to try, than to not have the chance at all.

~ Rebecca Donovan

Opportunists seek for a chance.Entrepreneurs make new chances.

~ Toba Beta

Everything that has ever happened to me that has been important has not been something that I've hoped for, or looked for, or manipulated -- it's all been predicated on my ability to take a new road when it presented itself and to go wit

~ Susan Sarandon

She was haunted by the possibility that she had missed her chance for happiness. But she had not missed her chance, she told herself, for her chance would not let her get away so easily. Each morning she was fortified by hope: the future loomed.

~ Amanda Coplin

There will never be another day such as this one, with all the variables of life combining in such a way to form this opportunity. So don't let it go, grab it.

~ Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

Opportunity is being in God's place, at God's time, following God's instructions, to obtain God's results.

~ Bidemi Mark-Mordi

You may not believe in chance but it provides us with every opportunity we need.

~ Chloe Thurlow

God has given every man an opportunity and a chance to re-write his or her story, it is up to you to use a blunt pen or a ball point . I have chosen a ball point and this is just the beginning.

~ Bayode Ojo

The author gives an interesting naval etymology of the word opportunity. It referred to days in which sailing ships had to wait outside a port for the appropriate tide, which then was their chance until the next tide.

~ Mark Batterson

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists.  It is a dangerously false illusion.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It's not who, it's when

~ Alejandro Taubas

Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.

~ Abraham De Moivre

One of the greatest gifts of life is having a chance to live as long as there are people on earth.

~ Kenneth De Guzman

Show me that age and country where the rights and liberties of the people were placed on the sole chance of their rulers being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?

~ Patrick Henry

You could make mistakes when you lived together because you knew you'd wake up the next morning with another chance.

~ Ariel Sabar

Our consciousness is a proof of our existence in this life.It's a chance given to us, to find a way to reach the eternity.

~ Toba Beta

This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography.

~ Sarah Hall

The world can accommodate your situation, as it accommodates all situations. And your body will keep explaining to you how it all works, this original experiment, this lifelong gift. Your body will keep describing how, for the first time being at least, there is no escape from this particular vessel. These are your atoms. This is your consciousness. These are your experiences--your successes and mistakes. This is your first and final chance, your one and only biography. This is the existential container, the bowl of your life's soup, wherein something can be made sense of, wherein there is a cure, wherein you are.

~ Sarah Hall

...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.

~ Émile Gaboriau

All the greatest blessings are a source of anxiety, and at no time should fortune be less trusted than when it is best; to maintain prosperity there is need of other prosperity, and in behalf of the prayers that have turned out well we must make still other prayers. For everything that comes to us from chance is unstable, and the higher it rises, the more liable it is to fall. Moreover, what is doomed to perish brings pleasure to no one; very wretched, therefore, and not merely short, must the life of those be who work hard to gain what they must work harder to keep. By great toil they attain what they wish, and with anxiety hold what they have attained; meanwhile they take no account of time that will never more return.

~ Seneca

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice.

~ Frank Herbert

The point is, the best technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.

~ Eric Weiner

And his eyes were fluttering shut, and his sinner’s smile- that wickedly wondrous thing- was less than an inch from mine. And soon enough, there was no space between them at all. He tasted like chances.

~ Mackenzie Herbert