Chance Quote by Chamfort Download Open image “Chance is a nickname of Providence” — Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chance Luck
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it. — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
I don't believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability. — Max Frisch Copy Share Image
What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
I am Providence, and Providence is myself - together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro' the ages; a fixt monument set aeternally in the… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Providence creates an unfolding situation that is exactly what the person needs, although not always what he may think he wants or desires. This… — Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi Copy Share Image
“One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to… — Chamfort Copy Share Image
Change in fashion is the tax which the industry of the poor levies on the vanity of the rich — Chamfort Copy Share Image
Most books today seem to have been written overnight from books read that day. — Chamfort Copy Share Image
It must be admitted that there are some parts of the soul which we must entirely paralyze before we can be happy in this… — Chamfort Copy Share Image
Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and… — Hyuna Copy Share Image
I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm… — Stipe Miocic Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters… — Bernie Mac Copy Share Image
The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.… — Bruce Campbell Copy Share Image
I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...… — Emil Ferris Copy Share Image
I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while… — Buddy Wakefield Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to… — Paolo Bacigalupi Copy Share Image
Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
