Percent Chance

Famous quotes containing the words percent chance, percent and/or chance:

“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”
—Bill Cosby (b. 1937)

“We find it easy to set limits when the issue is safety.... But 99 percent of the time there isn’t imminent danger; most of life takes place on more ambiguous ground, and children are experts at detecting ambivalence.”
—Cathy Rindner Tempelsman (20th century)

“Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)