Suzanne Collins Quotes

Chance ... must be something more than the name we give to our ignorance.

There is always room for coincidence.

Fortune rarely accompanies anyone to the door.

Hope! fortune's cheating lottery; when for one prize an hundred blanks there be!

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

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.

Many things are possible. Few things are certain.

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

What were the odds that she'd turn away at the same instant the ball came flying her way? And that she'd be holding a soda in a crowd at a volleyball game she didn't even want to watch, in a place she didn't want to be? In a million years, the same thing should probably never happen again. With odds like that, she should have bought a lottery ticket.

An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words

Life will always remain a gamble, with prizes sometimes for the imprudent, and blanks so often to the wise.

Life is a chance, a story is a chance. That I am here is a chance.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Chance is a second master.

Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

But chance runs like a river through all our lives, and being prepared for surprise is the best we can do.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string.

Little less than a promise, and a little more than a chance.

Chances rule men and not men chances.

You can be careful as far as you can, but you never know when you're going to fall over and break your ankle. It's like when you drive a car, you don't think about crashing, do you?

Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.

Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure.