Quotes about Chance

Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and and enfolding of things governed by Providence.

In a word, if there is a god, all is well; and if chance rules, do not thou also be governed by it.

And still, what a risk he'd taken. The woman was like an amateur car bomb: you never knew when she would explode or who she would take down with her when she did.

It's a gamble every time you get up in the morning.

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

The probability of life ever evolving on Earth was slim to none. It's insane that we're all walking around and talking.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

Finally, attempt, with me, to assume and then to contemplate the opposite. To deny the divine decrees would be to predicate a world and all its concerns regulated by UN-designed chance or blind fate. Then what peace, what assurance, what comfort would there be for our poor hearts and minds? What refuge would there be to fly to in the hour of need and trial? None at all. There would be nothing better than the black darkness and abject horror of atheism.

Great music will always rise to the top if you give it a chance.

While the heart beats, bruise it--it is your only opportunity

In young, childish, ignorant souls there is constantly this blind trust in some unshapen chance: it is as hard to a boy or girl to believe that a great wretchedness will actually befall them as to believe that they will die.