“Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com
“How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.com
“I guess I’m trying to say, grab anything that goes by. It may not come around again.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.”— Turcois Ominek, goodreads.com
“So, if you've got a good business, and you're in it right now, I love you, I respect you as a brother or sister. And I know you're a crazy son of a bitch just like me. You have to be! Who gets in a sport where the longer you play the more likely you die?”— Tony Robbins, youtube.com
“Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down a wonderful opportunity simply because we don't know what to do with it.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“Throw plans out the window and hit the town with nothing but your wallets and a quarter. Flip a coin to make every decision — turn left or right, step into a bar or keep walking, eat at a pub or a nice restaurant, drink wine or beer, catch a late movie or go back home — and see what happens. There’s…”— Devon Corneal, realsimple.com
“Because we know when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win that inch. And I know, if I'm gonna have any life anymore it's because I'…”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“You know, when you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's... that's... that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game - life or football - the margin for error is so sma…”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.”— Audrey Hepburn, telegraph.co.uk
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.”— Audrey Hepburn, telegraph.co.uk
“But that's the funny thing about destiny: it happens whether you plan it or not. It turns out I was just too close to the puzzle to see the picture that was forming.”— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com
“When something horrible happens, it's human nature to want to blame it on someone. We want someone to be held accountable, even though sometimes things just happen.”— Meg Cabot, amazon.com
“It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“It seemed truly frightening that it was only by sheer chance that she had met Nick. It could so easily not have happened and then she would have had a shadowy, half-alive existence, like some sort of woodland creature who never sees sunlight, never even knowing how much she could love and how much s…”— Liane Moriarty, amazon.com
“You're letting her think you're emotionally available. You're letting her think she has a chance. And there is nothing worse in the world than thinking you have a chance when you really don't.”— James D. Parriott, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com