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Chance Quotes by Marcel Proust
- Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances…
- When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
- We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to…
- So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are…
- And so it is with our own past. It is a labour in vain to attempt to recapture it: all the efforts of our intellect…
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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… — Adam Arkin
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not… — Norman Ralph Augustine
- Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. — Jane Austen
- Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully… — Paul Auster
- The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In… — Paul Auster
- First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a… — Oksana Baiul
- Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. — Abigail Adams
- In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there… — Ansel Adams
- Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. — Honore de Balzac
- 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