Chance

"Du hast keine Chance, aber nutze sie!"

"Für mich sind die Menschen in ihrer Würde gleich, aber nicht in ihren Lebenschancen. Da gibt es furchtbare Diskrepanzen. Die Politik ist dazu da, diese so weit es geht auszugleichen. Es geht um Chancengerechtigkeit."

"Ihr habt nur die Chance, mit uns zu leben. Ein Leben ohne uns wird es für Euch nicht mehr geben. Die Ibrahims, Stefanos, Marios, Laylas und Sorayas sind deutsche Realität. Ihr werdet es nicht verhindern können, dass bald ein türkischstämmiger Richter über Euch das Urteil fällt, ein pakistanischer Arzt Eure Krankheiten heilt, ein Tamile im Parlament Eure Gesetze mit verabschiedet und ein Bulgare der Bill Gates Eurer New Economy wird. Nicht Ihr werdet die Gesellschaft internationalisieren, modernisieren und humanisieren, sondern wir werden es tun – für Euch. Ihr seid bei diesem leidvollen Prozess lediglich Zaungäste, lästige Gaffer. Wir werden die deutsche Gesellschaft in Ost und West verändern."

"Im Leben stehen einem anständigen Charakter so und so viele Wege offen, um vorwärts zu kommen. Einem Schuft stehen bei gleicher Intelligenz und Tatkraft auf dem gleichen Platz diese Wege auch alle offen."

""Kommunikativ sollte die Musik sein, ohne sich auf Klischees zu stützen. Sensibel sollte sie sein, ohne esoterische Verstiegenheit. Intelligent ohne Zeigefinger und Elfenbeinturm. Verständlich, aber nicht banal. So pathetisch es klingen mag: Im Jazzrock steckt die Chance zur Versöhnung von Körper und Geist." - Volker Kriegel, zeit.de"

"Wer wenig Zeit, viel Ressentiment und ein schlechtes Gedächtnis hat, sollte sich die Chance nicht entgehen lassen, seine Memoiren zu schreiben."

"Gib jedem Menschen eine zweite Chance, irgendwann brauchst du sie selber."

"Man cannot, though he would, live chance's fool."

"People who canalise their lives and prearrange their enjoyments lose much of the enchantment which attends the guiding beneficence of chance."

"Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. In its carelessness it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man."

"Nothing in this world happens by chance."

"I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all."

"Le hasard, c'est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu quand il ne veut pas signer."

"People fail to appreciate how many chances they have to experience something coincidental."

"Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed."

"Chance and Time are ever twain."

"The stronghold of the determinist argument is the antipathy to the idea of chance...This notion of alternative possibility, this admission that any one of several things may come to pass is, after all, only a roundabout name for chance."

"Anyone who won't take a chance now and then isn't worth a damn."

"Chance and chance alone has a message for us... Only chance can speak to us."

"What power was this—chance, will you say? But chance, what else can it mean Than the hidden Cause of things by human reason unseen?"

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

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

"Randomness, chaos, uncertainty, and chance are all a part of our lives. They reside at the ill-defined boundaries between what we know, what we can know, and what is beyond our knowing. They make life interesting."

"Le hasard est aveugle, et seul il est le père de la création."

"Scire debet quid petat ille, qui sagittam vult mittere, et tunc derigere ac moderari manu telum. Errant consilia nostra, quia non habent, quo derigantur. Ignoranti, quem portum petat, nullus suus ventus est. Necesse est multum in vita nostra casus possit, quia vivimus casu. Quibusdam autem evenit, ut quaedam scire se nesciant. Quemadmodum quaerimus saepe eos, cum quibus stamus, ita plerumque finem summi boni ignoramus adpositum."

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

"Chance is a funny thing and it is easily mistaken for portent."

"Yet its essence was the certitude that his life was not totally at the mercy of chance. Somehow, it was more important than that. This sense of power inside his head — which he could intensify by pulling a face and wrinkling up the muscles of his forehead — aroused a glow of optimism, an expectation of exciting events. He knew that for him, fate held something special in store."

"How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!"

"Perhaps it may turn out a sang, Perhaps turn out a sermon."

"I shot an arrow into the air It fell to earth I knew not where; For so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight."

"Next him high arbiter Chance governs all."

"Or that power Which erring men call chance."

"Ours is no sapling, chance-sown by the fountain, Blooming at Beltane, in winter to fade."

"Chance will not do the work—Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us towards the port May dash us on the shelves.—The steersman's part is vigilance, Blow it or rough or smooth."

"I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance."

"Against ill chances men are ever merry; But heaviness foreruns the good event."

"But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows."

"Your worthiness is the result of chance."

"Quam sæpe forte temere eveniunt, quæ non audeas optare!"

"A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Of mighty monarchs."

"Er spricht Unsinn; für den Vernünftigen Menschen giebt es gar keinen Zufall."

"Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."