Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Sometimes life drops blessings in your lap without your lifting a finger. Serendipity, they call it. — Charlton Heston Copy Share Image
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing. — Aaron Levie Copy Share Image
It is ourselves alone that make our days lucky or unlucky. Away, then, with a vain prejudice, the invention of the priesthood,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
“Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article “The Luck Factor,” says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back… — Shawn Achor Copy Share Image
You don't believe me?" Jace asked. "Fine. Go ahead. Kiss me right now." Alec stared at him in horror. "Exactly. Despite my… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
My chances of being PM are about as good as the chances of finding Elvis on Mars, or my being reincarnated as… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“Grabbed in the ass by fate," his father used to say about coincidences like this. If there were coincidences like this. If… — R.A. MacAvoy Copy Share Image
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in luck. I make it, and I take it, but I don't stand around waiting for it to happen.… — Vinnie Terranova Copy Share Image
“Nobody can be lucky all the time, so when your luck deserts you in some fashion don't think you've been abandoned in… — Piet Hein Copy Share Image
“I will take this gamble and perhaps kill those people in the process. I will kill those people who can make me… — wildbow Copy Share Image
Nowadays when a poet with one privately printed book can have his next three years taken care of by a Guggenheim fellowship,… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I always think about Katharine Graham - she was the publisher of The Washington Post. In her autobiography she talks about the… — Owen Wilson Copy Share Image
Actually learning ancient Greek was a brilliant practice of mine because you'd sit there and you'd read a sentence and sometimes it… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which-miraculously, it seems-merge into a significant event. It provides… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
My good lady,’ interrupted Clent, ‘are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
I started playing chess when I was about 4 or 5 years old. It is very good for children to learn to… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's not Circumstance. It's not Chance. It's the Choice you make that determines the destiny of Life. — RVM Copy Share Image
Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck... — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Only When You Know Someone, A Chance Is Given... Give Me A Chance, To Get To Know Me. — Cv Pillay Copy Share Image
“It's called the principle of favorability, beginner's luck. Because life wants to achieve your destiny.” — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As an older and wiser man, I don't believe in luck. I believe in hard work and talent and determination. — Dexter Fletcher Copy Share Image
I have a hopeless crush on someone I have no chance to be with... and it sucks. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Luck was with me. I saw no spiders. Luck was against me. I saw no specters. — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
May the world go green with envy, seeing the luck you will have from today. Happy St.Patrick's Day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not lucky, but I am favoured because luck runs out; but God's favour will abide with me forever.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
A name, it has more than nominal worth, And belongs to good or bad luck at birth — Thomas Hood Copy Share Image
