CHANCE QUOTES II
quotations about chance
But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Winter's Tale
Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.
CHERISE SINCLAIR
Breaking Free
We ought never to trust to chance but when we cannot find a better surety.
NORMAN MACDONALD
Maxims and Moral Reflections
My son, I pray
that chance will prove kinder to you
than she was to me.
SOPHOCLES
AIAS
Life is too precious to be left to chance.
WALTER MOERS
The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
KARL MARX
Early Writings
That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics:
Fate. Luck. Chance.
KELSEYLEIGH REBER
If I Fall
I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
WILLIAM EARNEST HENLEY
Invictus
Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.
BRYCE COURTENAY
The Power of One
You Take A Chance on an airplane
You Take A Chance when you cross the street
You Take A Chance when you love somebody
When you're standing near the heat
BOB SEGER
"Take a Chance"
Chance happens to all ... but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON
Caxtoniana
Temporally, chance is a pure category of the present. It cannot be derived from a horizon of future expectation, except as its sudden manifestation; neither is it possible to experience it as the outcome of past causes: for if this were possible, then it would no longer be chance.
REINHART KOSELLECK
Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time
Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.
SOPHOCLES
Oedipus Rex
You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.
EDWARD BLOOR
Taken
Chance is a funny thing and it is easily mistaken for portent.
CHRIS STEDMAN
Faitheist
In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
The World and Other Places
I'm sorry, but nothing 'just happens'. Stuff happens because either we make it happen or we let it.
JESSIE JONES
Rubbish Boyfriends
Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. In its carelessness it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.
ELIZABETH BOWEN
The Little Girls
The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yielding unique forms and novel structures.
ERIC CHAISSON
Epic of Evolution