CHANCE QUOTES IV

quotations about chance

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

LAUREN OLIVER

Before I Fall


In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

LOUIS PASTEUR

lecture, Dec. 7, 1854


The best men are not those who have waited for chances, but taken them--besieged the chance, conquered the chance, and made the chance their servitor.

E. H. CHAPIN

Living Words


But I don't believe coincidences are chance events. I think they're the times we happen to see the mysterious pattern connecting everything.

JULIE GITTUS

Saltwater Moons


Yet they, believe me, who await
No gifts from Chance, have conquer'd Fate.

MATTHEW ARNOLD

Resignation


Next him high arbiter
Chance governs all.

JOHN MILTON

Paradise Lost


Most coincidences are simply chance events that turn out to be far more probable than many people imagine.

IVARS PETERSON

The Jungles of Randomness: A Mathematical Safari


What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

Don Carlos


Times go by turns, and chances change by course,
From foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

ROBERT SOUTHWELL

Times Go By Turns


Sometimes a wind comes up, blows you off course. You’re not ready for it, but if you’re lucky, you end up in a more interesting place than you’d planned.

NORA ROBERTS

The Calhouns


I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.

KURT VONNEGUT

The Sirens of Titan