Chance quotations

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

- Terry Pratchett99

◆ 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 Henry99

◆ If you expect the worse, you're only denying someone a chance to be better

- Sangu Mandanna99

◆ Anyway, it seems to me that the way most people go on living (I suppose there are a few exceptions), they think that the world of life (or whatever) is this place where everything is (or is supposed to be) basically logical and consistent.... It's like when you put instant rice pudding mix in a bowl in the microwave and push the button, and you take the cover off when it rings, and there you've got rice pudding. I mean, what happens in between the time when you push the switch and when the microwave rings? You can't tell what's going on under the cover. Maybe the instant rice pudding first turns into macaroni gratin in the darkness when nobody's looking and only then turns back into rice pudding. We think it's natural to get rice pudding after we put rice pudding mix in the microwave and the bell rings, but to me that's just a presumption. I would be kind of relieved if, every once in a while, after you put rice pudding mix in the microwave and it rang and you opened the top, you got macaroni gratin.

- Haruki Murakami99

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

- Erich Maria Remarque99

◆ 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.

- Sophocles99

◆ 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. Tolkien99

◆ 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 Castaneda99

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

- Edward Bloor99

◆ Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

- R.C. Sproul99

◆ how can the world in all its chaos come up with so many coincidences, so many similarities and exact opposites?

- Amy Tan99

◆ Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

- Mitch Albom99

◆ Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.

- Cherise Sinclair99

◆ If you wish to be loved, give love a chance by constantly and consistently being yourself.

- Anurag Prakash Ray99

◆ We don't meet certain people by accident, they are meant to cross our path for a specific reason...

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