Sooner or later the shot in the dark went home.
Sometimes we don’t get second chances. Sometimes things just end.[to Owen]
Scientists have calculated that the chance of anything so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.
Only a fool leaves anything of importance to chance.
One must not make oneself cheap here — that is a cardinal point — or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
Never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your own dreams.
Million-to-one chances, crop up nine times out of ten.
Luck, they say, goes in cycles.
Life is just life. We live, we die, we go to the corpse hall. There is no music, just chance. Fate is relentless.
I have never entered into any Controversy in defence of my philosophical Opinions; I leave them to take their Chance in the World. If they are right, Truth and Experience will support them. If wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour ones Temper and disturb one’s Quiet.
I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it hath been quite cooked do I welcome it as my food.[Ich koche mir noch jeden Zufall in meinem Topfe. Und erst, wenn er da gar gekocht ist, heisse ich ihn willkommen, als meine Speise.]
