“However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.”
Roald Dahl book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Source: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
“A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.”
Source: The Seasons (1726-1730), Summer (1727), l. 1285.
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“All human things are subject to decay,
And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
Source: Mac Flecknoe (1682), l. 1–2.
“The lucky man is he who knows how much to leave to chance.”
C. S. Forester book Lord Hornblower
Lord Hornblower (1946), p. 52.
“We didn't believe in fate, but we believed in serendipity. We felt very lucky.”
David Levithan (1972) American author and editor
Source: How They Met, and Other Stories
“Successful people never rely upon chance or fate.”
Nigel Cumberland (1967) British author and leadership coach
Your Job-Hunt Ltd – Advice from an Award-Winning Asian Headhunter (2003), Successful Recruitment in a Week (2012) https://books.google.ae/books?idp24GkAsgjGEC&printsecfrontcover&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIGjAA#vonepage&qnigel%20cumberland&ffalse, 100 Things Successful People Do: Little Exercises for Successful Living (2016) https://books.google.ae/books?idnu0lCwAAQBAJ&dqnigel+cumberland&hlen&saX&ved0ahUKEwjF75Xw0IHNAhULLcAKHazACBMQ6AEIMjAE
“Their fate will be in each other's hands as they decide whether to share or to shaft.”
Robert Kilroy-Silk (1942) British politician
Shafted, 2001
Frequently shown as a running joke on Have I Got News For You
“[T]he next few months will decide the fate of the peninsula.”
Brian Reynolds Myers (1963) American professor of international studies
2010s, Portrait of the Ally as an Intermediary (March 2018)
“The fate of States decides theirs:
Clauses of treaties determine their affections.”
Le destin des Etats est arbitre du leur,
Et l'ordre des traités règle tout dans leur cœur.
Rodogune, act III, scene iv.
Rodogune (1644)
