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Chance Quotes by W. Somerset Maugham
- Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.
- Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a…
- We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to…
- Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though…
- I want a girl because I want to bring her up so that she shan't make the mistakes I've made. When I look back upon…
- We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to…
More Chance Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- 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