Quotes about By Chance

I never do anything by chance. Votes: 4

All good ideas arrive by chance. Votes: 4

No man was ever wise by chance. Votes: 4

A fool must now and then be right, by chance. Votes: 4

You hit home runs not by chance but by preparation. Votes: 4

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always. Votes: 4

Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience. Votes: 4

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. Votes: 4

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice! Votes: 4

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. Votes: 4

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. Votes: 4

Nothing in this world happens by chance Votes: 3

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance...... Votes: 3

Wisdom comes to no one by chance. Votes: 3

We live by choice, not by chance. Votes: 3

No man ever became wise by chance. Votes: 3

No man was ever wise by chance. Votes: 3

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice. Votes: 3

People don't cheat by chance, they cheat by choice. Votes: 3

A fool must now and then be right, by chance Votes: 3

That which takes effect by chance is not an art. Votes: 3

Your faith will not grow by chance, but by choice. Votes: 3

You hit home runs not by chance, but by preparation. Votes: 3

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind. Votes: 3

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. Votes: 3

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends. Votes: 3

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance. Votes: 3

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance. Votes: 3

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends. Votes: 3

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Votes: 3

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled? Votes: 3

Have more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance. Votes: 3

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared. Votes: 3

We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism. Votes: 3

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment. Votes: 3

Sit and reflect on life itself and you would discover that nothing happens by chance. Votes: 3

I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance. Votes: 3

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance. Votes: 3

Great healers, people of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. Votes: 3

You may say that things happen just by chance, but I don't feel that way. Votes: 3

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance. Votes: 3

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance. Votes: 3

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. Votes: 3

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. Votes: 3

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance. Votes: 3

I believe that I am guided by chance encounters. I believe in the miracle of chance encounters. Votes: 3

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. Votes: 3

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance. Votes: 3

If you put on weight it's not by chance. You put on weight because you eat compulsively. Votes: 3

Who is Dr. A. von Holstein? And is he related, by chance, to a race of cows? Votes: 3

If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you. Votes: 3

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose. Votes: 3

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge. Votes: 3

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Votes: 3

Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice. Votes: 3

Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance. Votes: 3

I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance. Votes: 3

...It had been a perfect nap -- the sort a man runs into now and again by chance... Votes: 3

Be at peace and see a clear pattern and plan running through your lives. Nothing is by chance. Votes: 3

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. Votes: 3

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius. Votes: 3

I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. Votes: 3

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance. Votes: 3

Experiences with Angels do not occur to people by chance. There is a sort of run-up to the experience. Votes: 3

No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune. Votes: 3

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things. Votes: 3

I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting. Votes: 3

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance. Votes: 3

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK. Votes: 3

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement. Votes: 3

In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider). Votes: 3

Your will cannot always choose the path; very often the route is determined by chance or by the will of others. Votes: 3

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. Votes: 3

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live. Votes: 3

I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again. If by chance it is not night. Votes: 3

All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance. Votes: 3

Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance. Votes: 3

Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost. Votes: 3

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time. Votes: 3

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system. Votes: 3

Any fool may write a most valuable book by chance, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity. Votes: 3

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Votes: 3

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped. Votes: 3

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities. Votes: 3

Man is a political animal by nature; he is a scientist by chance or choice; he is a moralist because he is a man. Votes: 3

If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter. Votes: 3

All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance. Votes: 3

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about. Votes: 3

Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever. Votes: 3

I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance Welsh? (Sparhawk) Votes: 3

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him. Votes: 3

The bond between friends cannot be broken by chance; no interval of time or space can destroy it. Not even death itself can part true friends. Votes: 3

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happened to say it by chance, they would not know they had done so. Votes: 3

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance. Votes: 3

Either you set your goals and, in doing so, have your life governed by choice or you do nothing and have your life governed by chance. Votes: 3

What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus. Votes: 3

If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations. Votes: 3

I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being. Votes: 3

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so. Votes: 3

We are perpetually moralists, but we are geometricians only by chance. Our intercourse with intellectual nature is necessary; our speculations upon matter are voluntary, and at leisure. Votes: 3

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series. Votes: 3

Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation...or your death. Votes: 3

When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series. Votes: 3

The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most. Votes: 3

Individuals do not meet by chance. They are necessary in the experiences of others, though they may not always use their opportunities in a spiritual way or manner. Votes: 3

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance. Votes: 3

I'm a man of history. My vision is guiding me, my clear vision. It is not by chance that the currents of peace are increasing daily inside Israel. Votes: 3

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms. Votes: 3

Most of us have one big idea at some point in our lives. That Eureka! moment. It comes to us all in different ways, often by chance of serendipity. Votes: 3

It costs me never a stab nor squirm / To tread by chance upon a worm. / Aha, my little dear, / I say, Your clan will pay me back one day. Votes: 3

After taking risk into account, do more managers than you'd see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.' Votes: 3

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes. Votes: 3

If we want to produce people who share the values of a democratic culture, they must be taught those values and not be left to acquire them by chance. Votes: 3

I am not up there by chance. I am there by choice. And I know the wire. And I know my limits. And I am a madman of details. Votes: 3

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces. Votes: 3

...after a certain quantity, photos apparently taken by chance, postcards chosen according to a passing mood, begin to trace an itinerary, to map the imaginary country that stretches out before us. Votes: 3

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning. Votes: 3

Oft as by chance, a little while apart The pall of empty, loveless hours withdrawn, Sweet Beauty, opening on the impoverished heart, Beams like a jewel on the breast of dawn. Votes: 3

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact. Votes: 3

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 couldn't but have met them. Votes: 3

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen. Votes: 3

One should not wish anyone disagreeable conditions of life; but for him who is involved in them by chance, they are touchstones of characters and of the most decisive value to man. Votes: 3

But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities? Votes: 3

Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable. Votes: 3

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity. Votes: 3

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it. Votes: 3

Affliction doth not rise out of the dust or come to men by chance; but it is the Lord that sends it, and we should own and reverence His hand in it. Votes: 3

But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team. Votes: 3

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined. Votes: 3

I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined. Votes: 3

One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and hold fast to the days... Votes: 3

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test. Votes: 3

A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,-- True but for lying,--honest but for stealing,-- Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance. Votes: 3

Perfectly good fruit, simply in being bumped about by chance, indifferently sniffed at, idly handled and overlooked, is sometimes gradually made unfit for those who would otherwise choose it. So it is with lovers. Votes: 3

To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts. Votes: 3

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! Votes: 3

And if by chance you have a miserable day, you will come home to a bed that is made—that you made—and a made bed gives you encouragement that tomorrow will be better. Votes: 3

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is. Votes: 3

Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it. Votes: 3

If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages! Votes: 3

I got into the business all by chance. I really enjoy what I do now, but it wasn't always a huge dream of mine. I think I always had thought about it growing up, though. Votes: 3

When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance. Votes: 3

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play. Votes: 3

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born. Votes: 3

people believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance. Votes: 3

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance. Votes: 3

I have become increasingly convinced that the past records of mutual fund managers are essentially worthless in predicting future success. The few examples of consistently superior performance occur no more frequently than can be expected by chance. Votes: 3

The notion that not only the biopolymer but the operating program of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order. Votes: 3

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. Votes: 3

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success. Votes: 3

But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born. Votes: 3

A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it. Votes: 3

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him. Votes: 3

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it. Votes: 3

When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to rest and eat; when we see children in a moment when they are really children. Votes: 3

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?" Votes: 3

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance? Votes: 3

Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening. Votes: 3

One must conclude that, contrary to the established and current wisdom, a scenario describing the genesis of life on earth by chance and natural causes which can be accepted on the basis of fact and not faith has not been written. Votes: 3

The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time. Votes: 3

There exists a world. In terms of probability this borders on the impossible. It would have been far more likely if, by chance, there was nothing at all. Then, at least, no one would have began asking why there was nothing. Votes: 3

If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose and significance, love, motions of morality and rationality, beauty and verbal communication-are ultimately unfulfillable and thus meaningless. Votes: 3

Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer. Votes: 3

Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art. Votes: 3

When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.' Votes: 3

No man esteems anything that comes to him by chance; but when it is governed by reason, it brings credit both to the giver and receiver; whereas those favors are in some sort scandalous that make a man ashamed of his patron. Votes: 3

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long. Votes: 3

Since the background is as important as the subject, you mustn't let it default by chance. You must control not only vertical and horizontal, you must be aware of the depth of field (or lack of it) that you want in the background. Votes: 3

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation. Votes: 3

Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. The flowers which scatter their odours from time to time in the paths of life, grow up without culture from seeds scattered by chance. Votes: 3

Nothing happens in life by accident. Nothing occurs by chance. Nothing takes place without producing the opportunity for real and lasting benefit to you. The perfection of every moment may not be apparent to you, yet that will make the moment no less perfect. Votes: 3

Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh? Votes: 3

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled. Votes: 3

My idol was Johann Cruyff (a Dutch soccer player) and I wanted to be like him. But when I realized that I would never be, I decided to do something else. I met the kitchen by chance and quickly became completely enamoured by it. Votes: 3

It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself. Votes: 3

If, by chance, someone among those men of extraordinary talent is found who has firmness of soul and who refuses to yield to the genius of his age and to debase himself with childish works, woe unto him! He will die in poverty and oblivion. Votes: 3

It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance. Votes: 3

! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life. Votes: 3

I have little routines in the theater. Once I've established something, like the order of putting on makeup and a costume, I have to invariably do it in the same order every time, even if I only did it by chance the first time round. Votes: 3

bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen. Votes: 3

I totally heard by chance that they were doing the casting for a James Bond movie, and that one of the auditions was taking place in Paris. So I tried myself to contact every name involved in the movie I could possibly find on the IMDb! Votes: 3

I didn't intend to even become an actor. I was studying fashion, and I think acting just happened by chance. It really felt more like I was watching a movie from outside, like it was happening to someone else. It's been a great journey so far. Votes: 3

Man at last knows that he is alone in the unfeeling immensity of the universe, out of which he emerged only by chance. Neither his destiny nor his duty have been written down. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose. Votes: 3

I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life. Votes: 3

We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures. Votes: 3

No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.' Votes: 3

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Votes: 3

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense. A composition for cheapness and not excellence of workmanship is the most frequent and certain cause of the rapid decay and entire destruction of arts and manufacturers. Votes: 3

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness. Votes: 3

If there's 10,000 people looking at the stocks and trying to pick winners, one in 10,000 is going to score, by chance alone, a great coup, and that's all that's going on. It's a game, it's a chance operation, and people think they are doing something purposeful... but they're really not. Votes: 3

For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago. Votes: 3

Men first make up their minds (and the smaller the mind the sooner made up), and then seek for the reasons; and if they chance to stumble upon a good reason, of course they do not reject it. But though they are right, they are only right by chance. Votes: 3

The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance. Votes: 3

The evidence in this universe for design - or, if you will, the fine-tuning that cannot be explained by chance or by 'enough time' - is so compelling that the only way around it is to suggest that our universe is only one of an infinite number of universes. Votes: 3

The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose. Votes: 3

If one who looked from a tower for a new star, watching for years the same part of the sky, suddenly saw it (quite by chance while thinking of other things), and knew it for the star for which he had hoped, how many millions of men would never care? Votes: 3

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance. Votes: 2

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance. Votes: 2

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance. Votes: 2

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for. Votes: 2

Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together. Votes: 2

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work. Votes: 2

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself. Votes: 2

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false. Votes: 2

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another. Votes: 2

Never pass by a chance to shut up. Votes: 0

You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere. Votes: 0

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated. Votes: 0

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. Votes: 0

The mines of knowledge are often laid bare by the hazel-wand of chance. Votes: 0

The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. Votes: 0

The more you're obsessed by something, the better chance you have of achieving it. Votes: 0

Time was invented by the Almighty God in order to give ideas a chance. Votes: 0

Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance? Votes: 0

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. Votes: 0

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt. Votes: 0

If we can abandon our missionary zeal we have less chance of being eaten by cannibals. Votes: 0

The chance of a criminal getting caught, is only slightly better than getting hit by lightning. Votes: 0

Any creative work that is truly alive is influenced by a thousand chance factors in its generation. Votes: 0

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents. Votes: 0

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there. Votes: 0

There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance. Votes: 0

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. Votes: 0

Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance. Votes: 0

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance Votes: 0

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards. Votes: 0

If you can lessen the chance of a bad injury by being strong, you have to do it. Votes: 0

I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance. Votes: 0

She wasn't broken. She was just bent, over the chance of being ignored by the one she loved. Votes: 0

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill. Votes: 0

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance. Votes: 0

I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time. Votes: 0

A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance. Votes: 0

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them. Votes: 0

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results. Votes: 0

The English dance unites the guests of an evening by the spell of rhythmical movement into a chance casual community. Votes: 0

By now, you've heard endless warnings about the risk of short, trivial passwords. There's a good chance you ignore them. Votes: 0

And as we should all know by now, anytime you predict failure you have an excellent chance of being right. Votes: 0

I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis. Votes: 0

By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive. Votes: 0

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too. Votes: 0

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence. Votes: 0

But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man." Votes: 0

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all. Votes: 0

It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women. Votes: 0

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are. Votes: 0

Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections. Votes: 0

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. Votes: 0

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live. Votes: 0

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper. Votes: 0

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans. Votes: 0

My favorite song to play is 'Smokin'' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live. Votes: 0

Jack turned to Cameron. "Do you just line them up, waiting to yell at me, on the off chance I'll stop by? Votes: 0

The man who has been wounded by a chance arrow must not shoot at sight the first man he happens to meet. Votes: 0

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them. Votes: 0

Every startup has a chance to change the world, by bringing not just a new product, but an entirely new institution into existence. Votes: 0

It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things. Votes: 0

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures. Votes: 0

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system?. Votes: 0

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures. Votes: 0

Intentionality and talent always matter. An extraordinary feat is certainly made more likely by someone's focus, hard work, etc. But chance also matters. Votes: 0

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences. Votes: 0

To be invisible, paint yourself with the direct shade of zero. Leave nothing to chance, by taking nothing with you wherever you go. Votes: 0

When you suffer an attack of nerves you're being attacked by the nervous system. What chance has a man got against a system? Votes: 0

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction. Votes: 0

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to. Votes: 0

By happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same! Votes: 0

Give your subconscious a chance to work by turning your brain off from time to time. Don't focus on work or solving problems constantly. Votes: 0

The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance. Votes: 0

The night of QB3 is under obligation, the moment the enemy gives him the chance, of undertaking an invasion of the center by Kn-Q5. Votes: 0

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. Votes: 0

If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases. Votes: 0

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. Votes: 0

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one. Votes: 0

The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent. Votes: 0

I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid. Votes: 0

A successful life does not result from chance; nor is it determined by fate or good fortune, but rather through a succession of successful days. Votes: 0

The respect of a man of great honor is unshakeable. He stands a big chance of being remembered and honored by many generations to come. Votes: 0

In the last analysis civilization itself is measured by the way in which children will live and what chance they will have in the world Votes: 0

Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one. Votes: 0

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery. Votes: 0

Build a bridge over shame by teaching kids about sexual abuse. Give them a chance to run to us should they encounter it. Be their hero. Votes: 0

Last night there seemed to be a chance. Anything was possible last night. That was the trouble with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings. Votes: 0

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith. Votes: 0

No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been created only by immense design. Votes: 0

The testing process usually happens when we least expect it, thereby catching you off guard and giving you no chance to display anything by your real personality. Votes: 0

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed. Votes: 0

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism. Votes: 0

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind. Votes: 0

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation. Votes: 0

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. Votes: 0

Each person's destiny is not a matter of chance; it's a matter of choice. It's determined by what we say, what we do, and whom we trust. Votes: 0

If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess. Votes: 0

The thief or swindler who has gained great wealth by his delinquency has a better chance than the small thief of escaping the rigorous penalty of the law. Votes: 0

Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Votes: 0

Ignore the conventional wisdom. If everybody else is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going in exactly the opposite direction. Votes: 0

By getting your customers to agree with you in small steps along the way, you have a better chance of reaching agreement when it's time to do business. Votes: 0

As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance. Votes: 0

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised? Votes: 0

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested. Votes: 0

Thank you for the confidence put in my by the motherland and the people, for giving me this chance to represent China's millions of women by going into space. Votes: 0

Either our wills are determined by prior causes and we are not responsible for them, or they are the product of chance and we are not responsible for them. Votes: 0

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance. Votes: 0

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance. Votes: 0

I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to givemy best shot. Votes: 0

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it. Votes: 0

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer. Votes: 0

I don't play with my life by talking bullshit.I might have some chances in this bitchy life,but I've got only one fuckin' chance to give...my best shot. Votes: 0

Opportunity never arrives, it only walks by. Chance never comes, it only knocks at the door. Never think the success will jump into your palms; you must work for it! Votes: 0

Even chance meetings are the result of karma"¦ Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence. Votes: 0

I believe immigration reform is a commitment of President Obama's government, especially since it gives him a chance to respond to the great demand expressed by U.S. Hispanic voters. Votes: 0

I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here! --Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in "Hunt the Moon Votes: 0