Chance Quotes

…   not my own opinion, but my wife’s: Yesterday, when weary with writing, I was called to supper, and a salad I had asked for was set before me. ‘It seems then,’ I said, ‘if pewter dishes, leaves of lettuce, grains of salt, drops of water, vinegar, oil and slices of eggs had been flying about in the air for all eternity, it might at last happen by chance that there would come a salad.’ ‘Yes,’ responded my lovely, ‘but not so nice as this one of mine.

~ Johannes Kepler

I can't understand God and I can't understand myself, so there's no chance in hell that I'm going to understand you!

~ Anthony T. Hincks

I laughed, I don’t have a CHANCE IN HELL of ever turning COLE DRIVER GAY. He's straighter than NEIL PATRICK HARRIS.

~ Giorge Leedy

If I don't take a chance with Gavin Murphy, I think I'll always regret it.

~ Lex Martin

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

~ Ann Brashares

I am scared like you all people, that tomorrow I will be examined, that there is chance to get something bad as a result, that I will mistake in saying a word aloud or something more worst than this...

~ Deyth Banger

How do you calculate upon the unforeseen? It seems to be an art of recognizing the role of the unforeseen, of keeping your balance amid surprises, of collaborating with chance, of recognizing that there are some essential mysteries in the world and thereby a limit to calculation, to plan, to control.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Under a night’s skyFilled with a hundred billion starsIs it so crazy to believeOur paths were destined to cross?

~ Justin Wetch

Sometimes if you don't get lost,there is a chance,you may never arrive!

~ Manoj Vaz

How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied--or, for that matter, awarded--because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.

~ Kevin Brockmeier

Every challenge is a chance to become a champion.

~ Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

The alluring, long-shot chance of a huge gain is the grease that lubricates the machine of innovation.

~ Jason Zweig

It necessarily follows that chance alone is at the source of every innovation, and of all creation in the biosphere. Pure chance, absolutely free but blind, at the very root of the stupendous edifice of evolution: this central concept of modern biology is no longer one among many other possible or even conceivable hypotheses. It is today the sole conceivable hypothesis, the only one that squares with observed and tested fact. And nothing warrants the supposition - or the hope - that on this score our position is ever likely to be revised. There is no scientific concept, in any of the sciences, more destructive of anthropocentrism than this one.

~ Jacques Monod

Practically, speaking up against street harassment is not about being a hero, getting credit points to be in the good books of a girl or a chance to impress anyone. It is about making sure that everyone has the right to enjoy that spring breeze, golden clouds and chirping without feeling uncomfortable.

~ Shahla Khan

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

~ J.r.r. Tolkien

It will be interesting to have chance to view and the places from rich and poor to see what happens... if somebody knows the chance to do it it's smaller than before.

~ Deyth Banger

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

~ Jeanette Winterson

It is a West zone planet which by an inexplicable and somewhat suspicious freak of topography consists almost entirely of subtropical coastline. By an equally suspicious freak of temporal relastatics, it is nearly always Saturday afternoon just before the beach bars close. No adequate explanation for this has been forthcoming from the dominant life forms on Ursa Minor Beta, who spend most of their time attempting to achieve spiritual enlightenment by running round swimming pools, and inviting Investigation Officials from the Galactic Geo-Temporal Control Board to 'have a nice diurnal anomaly.

~ Douglas Adams

Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.

~ John C. Parkin

Every body should be given the chance and the necessary support to unearth their full potential.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Everybody has own gifts from God. You just need to seize the right time, right place and right person to be found.

~ Hiroko Sakai

You need to take the chance because you cannot read the thoughts of people, because you do not want to regret when you grow old, because life is short and time is fleeting, because arousing conflict works at times, because sometimes it’s the only way, the absolute option, because sometimes it’s just necessary.

~ Chirag Tulsiani

Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer?

~ Henri Poincaré

Don't give people the chance to possess you with their negativity; their gibberish can look so charming, but it can't make you a better person.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.

~ Francis Crick

You won't be benefited unless & until you give a chance.

~ Yogeshwaran Selvaraju

But don’t we all deserve a chance before we’re judged?

~ Emory R. Frie

Each new day offers the chance to start afresh, to achieve those things you most desires.

~ Steven Redhead

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

~ Terry Pratchett

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

~ Lemony Snicket

Luck is not as random as you think.Before that lottery ticket won the jackpot, someone had to buy it.

~ Vera Nazarian

Hazard has conditioned us to live in hazard. All our pleasures are dependant upon it. Even though I arrange for a pleasure; and look forward to it, my eventual enjoyment of it is still a matter of hazard. Wherever time passes, there is hazard. You may die before you turn the next page.

~ John Fowles

A statement about luck is a statement about the mind, not about the world... We find what seems to have been the lucky break or the big mistake, and so we thank our lucky stars that we took the road less traveled or curse the fates that sent that little wavelet that flipped us on our backs. With hindsight, we seem to see that everything preceding the pivotal point was leading up to it, tending toward it, and that everything following it grew from it.To any observer outside the lucky one himself, however, luck is simply chance. Chance is neutral.

~ Eric Kraft

Chance, Luck, Coincidence - All true; they happen! But behind them, all is a loving God in camouflage but are you in camouflage doing nothing at all?

~ John M Sheehan

To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity.

~ Dean Koontz

Life is mere chance only when one allows it to be

~ Matthew Woodring Stover

No risk is more terrifying than that taken by the first root. A lucky root will eventually find water, but its first job is to anchor -- to anchor an embryo and forever end its mobile phase, however passive that mobility was. Once the first root is extended, the plant will never again enjoy any hope (however feeble) of relocating to a place less cold, less dry, less dangerous. Indeed, it will face frost, drought, and greedy jaws without any possibility of flight. The tiny rootlet has only once chance to guess what the future years, decades -- even centuries -- will bring to the patch of soil where it sits. It assesses the light and humidity of the moment, refers to its programming, and quite literally takes the plunge.

~ Hope Jahren

Careful had never really been her style.

~ Tiffany Quay Tyson

I'm giving you what I can give you, and I'm telling you in advance that you might get hurt. But it's worth it to take the risk. I can damn well promise you that it's worth it.

~ K.a. Linde

Sometimes you need to take the chance and risk it all. Everything might come to an abrupt end or lead to a prosperous beginning either way you would have got your answers, answers you happened to seek which will only be given to you when you ask for them, when you speak.

~ Chirag Tulsiani