Chance Quotes

Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

~ Frank Herbert

The real blessings come without our asking or even knowing what they are.

~ Marty Rubin

The best time to finally be and do what you want could be the worst time to be and do what you want. So if now is the worst time for you, this may be your best chance.

~ Franco Santoro

Many Christians, including BioLogos, like to throw out the you can't take the Bible literally argument. They think it is the ultimate zinger that will end any debate in their favor. But if we shouldn't take the Bible literally, why should we believe God is real in the literal sense? Perhaps God is a metaphor also. Maybe God is really a metaphor for nature or chance. Heaven forbid! However, BioLogos insists on having it both ways: God is literally true but the Bible is not. That's like saying Mother Goose is literally true but her nursery rhymes are not.

~ G.m. Jackson

And then, some morning in the second week, the mind wakes, comes to life again. Not in a city sense—no—but beach-wise. It begins to drift, to play, to turn over in gentle careless rolls like those lazy waves on the beach. One never knows what chance treasures these easy unconscious rollers may toss up, on the smooth white sand of the conscious mind; what perfectly rounded stone, what rare shell from the ocean floor. Perhaps a channeled whelk, a moon shell, or even an argonaut.

~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Hope meets a dead end when the only chance in sight comes to naught.

~ Pawan Mishra

Random search for data on ... off-chance is hardly scientific. A questionnaire on 'Intellectual Immoralities' was circulated by a well-known institution. 'Intellectual Immorality No. 4' read: 'Generalizing beyond one's data'. [Wilder Dwight] Bancroft asked whether it would not be more correct to word question no. 4 'Not generalizing beyond one's data.

~ Hans Selye

Chance is your godThough you're falling free you will land hard

~ Criss Jami

Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.

~ Alan Lightman

a soldier lives always for the next battle, because he knows that before it arrives impossible changes can occur in his favor.

~ James A. Michener

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

~ Sherman Alexie

Take my hand, hold on tight, and together we will jump. Jump out of the darkness and into the blinding light. I don’t know what struggle we will experience out there but I believe it is better than struggling here in the darkness. Together let’s change our lives. Let us take risks to create a better life. I believe.

~ Avina Celeste

You get as many chances as you want, as many as you dare to make for yourself.

~ Edward Bloor

So this talk, or touch if I were there,Should work its effortless gadgetry of love,Like Dante’s heaven, and melt into the air.If it doesn’t, of course, I’ve fallen. So much is chance,So much agility, desire, and feverish care,As bicyclists and harpsicordists proveWho only by moving can balance,Only by balancing move.

~ Michael Donaghy

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

~ Lauren Oliver

No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.

~ Erich Maria Remarque

All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between an average man and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this, and one of his tasks is to be alert, deliberately waiting, so that when his cubic centimeter pops out he has the necessary speed, the prowess, to pick it up.

~ Carlos Castañeda

Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.

~ Cherise Sinclair

Life is too precious to be left to chance

~ Walter Moers

When I was young I wanted to be just like him.One of the charm, of a bright orange smileand muscular laughter.Bold brown eyes flashing fearlesswhen he sat not alone on cold blue nights in empty boxcars.Riding a freight train'ssolitary wailaway from NebraskaDepression, accompanying dreamswithered farms.Nothing left but the leaves of possibilities.

~ Larsen Bowker

I think perhaps love thrives on unlikely circumstances and chance : life thrives on these principles, and is life not love? And love not life?

~ Brandon Boyd

Yet, when these facts are seen side by side with other facts in the case, it is difficult not to become lost in superstitious awe. Their very absurdity seems to prohibit the use of the words 'chance' and 'coincidence.' For the sceptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman Law, it is administered with sub-human inefficiency.

~ Eric Ambler

Chances don't approach you,it's you who approach chances.

~ Toba Beta

Take a chance on me and I will prove how worthy your life is.

~ Heenashree Khandelwal

I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.

~ Jessie Jones

You’ll never have the chance to work this stuff out unless you give yourself the chance.

~ Jenn Marie Thorne

But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything.

~ Julie Gittus

If a coin comes down heads, that means that the possibility of its coming down tails has collapsed. Until that moment the two possibilities were equal. But on another world, it does come down tails. And when that happens, the two worlds split apart.

~ Philip Pullman

Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not corrected as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.

~ Amos Tversky

Slacker becomes slower if given additional time.

~ Toba Beta

Life is full of chances, don't miss yours today.

~ M Howson

The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

~ Karl Marx

Be real. I'm going up against three of the world's most vicious ubervillains. I have a very, very slim chance of survival. I have a better chance of winning the lottery, and I don't even play.

~ Jennifer Estep

No one knew what she was doing in Colonia Hidalgo, although it was most likely, according to the police, that she'd been taking a walk and had come upon death purely by chance.

~ Roberto Bolaño

We're all stumbling in the dark, and that makes for some pretty interesting collisions.

~ Marty Rubin

I had to go outside. I had to let the element of chance in.

~ Mark Forsyth

Be unprepared, that's my motto. Be unprepared, and let life overwhelm you.

~ Marty Rubin

Every breath we take from the airTakes oxygen from an insect’s lungs mid-prayerAnd every exhalation does loudly declareThat in the currency of life, we’re millionaires.A butterfly flapped it’s wings and Rome fellA passerby’s whistle cracked the liberty bellAnd I dare urge the daring not to yellLest we so bid a skyscraper a rough farewell.A snake’s tongue slithered and man did sinLet me tell you how the waves from a shark’s finDid set the tides on D-Day and let the allies win;Chance and destiny are identical twins.A word was spoken and the earth createdAnother phrase and the future was dictatedAnd so every action must be carefully weightedWe just never know how things are interrelated.

~ Justin Wetch

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

~ Theodore Roosevelt

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

~ Victor Hugo