“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
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“A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1285.
Human Destiny, 1947, p. 33
Commenting on Charles-Eugene Guye's calculation that the odds against the random formation of a particular protein molecule would be about 1 in 10 to the 243rd.
Hoyle on evolution, Nature, Vol. 294, No. 5837 (November 12, 1981), p. 105
“Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.”
We Didn't Mean to Go to Sea (Title page and Chapter 2), 1937
“Pioneering is an unlimited chance to become the biggest frog, provided the puddle is small enough.”
Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 31)
Quoted in "Architect of Optimism," Angel Gurria-Quintana, Financial Times (2007-04-13).
“I might have a chance of starting a movement toward change in this broken system.”
As quoted in "Angus may be a king-maker" by Deborah McDermott in Seacoast Online (11 March 2012) http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20120311/NEWS/203110325/-1/NEWSMAP
Context: I think I can honestly say that if Olympia had announced her retirement because of ill health or to spend more time with Jock I probably wouldn't have run. … What perked me up is why she is leaving. Olympia has 30 years of seniority, she's likable, she works very hard, and if she can't make it work, nobody in either party is going to make it work. … I don't have any illusions it will be easy, but I do think particularly if the two parties are closely divided, I will have an influence … I might have a chance of starting a movement toward change in this broken system. This country has serious problems, but you can't address them if the institution set up to address the problems is broken.
