„Not if the butcher had become a butcher simply in order to have a chance of murdering the baker. One must always look one step behind, my friend.“

— Agatha Christie

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„He’s a restless soul, always looking for another chance to drive,’ Nico said. ‘The last few years, he’s been my driver whenever I need one.’‘You have a zombie chauffeur,’ Leila said.“
— Rick Riordan
„I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„But there was one other thing that the grown-ups also knew, and it was this: that however small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance is there. The chance had to be there.“
— Roald Dahl
„In order for us to liberate the energy of our strength, our weakness must first have a chance to reveal itself.“
— Paulo Coelho
„Nothing happens by chance, my friend… No such thing as luck.“
— Richard Bach
„We must not forget that when radium was discovered no one knew that it would prove useful in hospitals. The work was one of pure science. And this is a proof that scientific work must not be considered from the point of view of the direct usefulness of it. It must be done for itself, for the beauty of science, and then there is always the chance that a scientific discovery may become like the radium a benefit for humanity.“
— Marie Curie
„Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.“
— Terry Pratchett