Quotes about Chance
Chance is the nature of our universe. […] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
— Frank Herbert
Ahh, but the dice cannot read their own spots.
— Frank Herbert
In that moment, his whole life was a limb shaken by the departure of a bird … and the bird was chance.
— Frank Herbert
Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: hard work - and realizing what opportunity is and what isn't.
— Lucille Ball
When Zachary saw Annie, he entered the circles of overlapping time. Behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it.
— Madeleine L'Engle
Success results when preparation meets opportunity.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Success in love is mostly luck, though we hate to admit.
— Marty Rubin
Danger is opportunity inside out.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To deny or ignore the existence of an enemy is to give him a great chance against you; and the flesh is in the believer to the very end, a force of evil to be reckoned with continually, an evil force inside a man, and yet, thank God, a force which can be so dealt with by the power of God, that it shall have no power to defile the heart or deflect the will.
— Andrew Murray
Christ, on the other hand, declares that every single one of God's creatures is under his hand and care, and that nothing happens by chance.
— John Calvin
Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men.
— John Donne
O how feeble is man's power, That if good fortune fall, Cannot add another hour, Nor a lost hour recall! But come bad chance, And we join to'it our strength, And we teach it art and length, Itself o'er us to'advance.
— John Donne