Chance Quotes II

CHANCE QUOTES II

quotations about chance

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty
To what we wildly do, so we profess
Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every wind that blows.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

The Winter's Tale

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My son, I pray
that chance will prove kinder to you
than she was to me.

SOPHOCLES

AIAS

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Life is too precious to be left to chance.

WALTER MOERS

The 13½ Lives of Captain Bluebear

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Be brave, little rabbit. Take a chance.

CHERISE SINCLAIR

Breaking Free

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We ought never to trust to chance but when we cannot find a better surety.

NORMAN MACDONALD

Maxims and Moral Reflections

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Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

WILLIAM EARNEST HENLEY

Invictus

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I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

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That is life, isn’t it? Fate. Luck. Chance. A long series of what-if’s that lead from one moment to the next, time never pausing for you to catch your breath, to make sense of the cards that have been handed to you. And all you can do is play your cards and hope for the best, because in the end, it all comes back to those three basics:
Fate. Luck. Chance.

KELSEYLEIGH REBER

If I Fall

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The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.

KARL MARX

Early Writings

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Chance happens to all ... but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

EDWARD BULWER LYTTON

Caxtoniana

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Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

BRYCE COURTENAY

The Power of One

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You Take A Chance on an airplane
You Take A Chance when you cross the street
You Take A Chance when you love somebody
When you're standing near the heat

BOB SEGER

"Take a Chance"

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Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

SOPHOCLES

Oedipus Rex

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Temporally, chance is a pure category of the present. It cannot be derived from a horizon of future expectation, except as its sudden manifestation; neither is it possible to experience it as the outcome of past causes: for if this were possible, then it would no longer be chance.

REINHART KOSELLECK

Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time

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In the space between chaos and shape there was another chance.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

The World and Other Places

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You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.

EDWARD BLOOR

Taken

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Chance is a funny thing and it is easily mistaken for portent.