Chance Quotes
6711 quotes by 4419 authors
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do,…
— Adam Arkin
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I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
— Jane Austen
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Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.
— Paul Auster
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The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we…
— Paul Auster
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First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
— Oksana Baiul
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
— Abigail Adams
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In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good…
— Ansel Adams
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.
— Ernie Banks
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Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that a mere model…
— Tyra Banks
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Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
— Javier Bardem
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
— Dave Barry
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on, protecting a…
— Drew Barrymore
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Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it…
— Glenn Beck
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A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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