… Nature almost surely operates by combining chance with necessity, randomness with determinism…

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...

At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16

All lovers meet and love by chance.

Another name for destiny is opportunity, once you miss it, your destiny is gone.

Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

chance-of-the-gaps fallacy.” Chance, like God, can become a stop-gap for ignorance.

Don’t deny your parents a chance at happiness and also an opportunity to see you achieve greatness.

Not all can believe anything they want to, because not all have the ability to believe.

If you are the hero of your family, there is very good chance that one day you will be the hero of the world.

We’re deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn’t a game, I don’t know what is.

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.

Journey gives us a chance to start all over again and be a new personality

One chance–that’s what she had seen she had–one flying leap that was really composed of eight thousand separate possibilities for falling, and she had taken that chance and come this far and been found out.

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

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...

In the abstract, it might be tempting to imagine that irreducible complexity simply requires multiple simultaneous mutations – that evolution might be far chancier than we thought, but still possible. Such an appeal to brute...

We always have a chance to ask, a chance to know, and a chance to change. If these chances are not used properly or merely ignored,then you won’t have a second chance.

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

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,...

A distaste for the new is not always fear of the unknown, but sometimes ambition. Some people don’t like the new way simply because they never got a chance to master the old way.

In the sea of desperation, there are ships of opportunities

There had never been any more between us thanchance had brought. But perhaps that makes a greater indebtednessand binds closer than much else

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

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...

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...

Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that’s broken!

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

I loved you long before you loved me. It’s the only thing I have you beat at, and I’ll bring it up every chance I get.

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

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...

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...

If you just give me a chance, I could be the man you’ve never dreamed of and never wanted.

The firmer the plan, the more one can expect the unexpected.

I have come to realize that my stupid gestures excites women alot, and if I’m really stupid, i will dare to take them to bed and excite them even more.

All statistics have outliers.

It’s a chance to wake up new.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

When two wise men are blaming one another,then time has come for you to be the third one.

Mind may make business relationship; Heart does make personal relationship; Beautiful soul only makes sustainable and happy relationship. The choice is all ours.

Eu comensalizo, parasito e predo tudo. Até mesmo a minha dor. Para maximizar minhas chances de sucesso.

When her boyfriend broke his leg, I knew it was my chance to ask her to dance. So I put down my baseball bat and approached her like Babe Ruth.

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’s funny. No matter how hard you try, you can’t close your heart forever. And the minute you open it up, you never know what’s going to come in. But when it does, you just...

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...

It was at this time that backgammon was invented and began to be popular. It is a kind of paradigm of how wealth is acquired, which in this world is not the reward of intelligence...

Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of the helpful mutations. Let me emphasize, our experience with malaria’s effects on humans (arguably our most highly studied...

Chance” is just a word expressing ignorance

Consider everyone trustworthy until they prove otherwise.

Magic?” What did magic have to do with breaking into someone’s store and stealing their stuff?”Don’t you get it?” Peter said. “You’re free now. You don’t have to live by their rules anymore.” Peter pointed...