Chance - Quotes
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
Often death takes us before we have had the chance to taste love because when love is right in front of us we were too busy looking for it elsewhere.
A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the masses of men.
In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.
The past is a gaping hole. You try to run from it, but the more you run, the deeper it grows behind you, its edges yawning at your heels. Your only chance is to turn around and face it. But it`s like looking down into the grave of your love, or kissing the mouth of a gun, a bullet trembling in its dark nest, ready to blow your head off.
We are prone to overestimate how much we understand about the world and to underestimate the role of chance in events. Overconfidence is fed by the illusory certainty of hindsight.
Sometimes you know you`ve got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn`t so messed up, it wouldn`t be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn`t.
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there`s a 90% probability you`ll get it wrong.
There are those of your kind who feel that everything happens by design, and there are those who feel all events are simply a matter of luck or chance. The truth is that life is both random and on purpose, although not in equal measure.