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QUOTES including the word: "chance"

Ovid:
  • Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

  • William Thackeray:
  • Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

  • Emily Dickinson:
  • Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  • Igor Luchenok:
  • Voithó tous anthrópous ópote écho tin efkairía. Óchi móno fílous, allá kai echthroús. 85 / 5.000 Αποτελέσματα μετάφρασης I help people whenever I have the chance. Not only friends but also enemies.

  • Maurice Ravel:
  • 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.

  • Somerset Maugham:
  • 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 love a changed person.

  • Seneca:
  • No man was ever wise by chance.

  • Democritus:
  • Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

  • Jane Austen:
  • Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  • Upton Sinclair:
  • The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.

  • Plotinus:
  • To make the existence and coherent structure of this Universe depend upon automatic activity and upon chance is against all good sense.”

  • Somerset Maugham:
  • Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation.

  • Emily Dickinson:
  • Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  • Sartre:
  • Every existing being is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

  • Karl Marx:
  • There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.