C Quotes
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“Chance for change lies in resolute repentance.”
“Chance gave her the stink-eye. “You really outta know me better than that by now.”
“Yeah, well, every time I think I do, the snake sheds his skin and starts all over again,” she said, eyes boring into his as she said it.”
Source: Rise at Twilight
“Chance generally favors the prudent.”
“Chance gives a smile to the one who is ready to take it”
“Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.”
Source: Thoughts
“Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.”
“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people. Action, self-reliance, the vision of self and the future have been the only means by which the oppressed have seen and realized the light of their own freedom.”
Source: Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey
“Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.”
“Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.”
“Chance – invisible, furtive, and silent – is the vast canvas upon which all the rest of war is painted. Skill, courage, ruse, character, the elements of nature, technology and all the other components of war all operate against the backdrop of chance. Again and again, chance has raised up and brought down empires, snatched laurels from one hand to throw to another, and destroyed the most finely wrought plans.”
Source: Disaster at D-day: The Germans Defeat the Allies,june 1944
“Chance is a fickle friend, but a true companion of change.”
“Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.”
“Chance is a name for our ignorance.”
“Chance is a nickname for Providence.”
“Chance is a second master.”
“Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.”
Source: Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression
“Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.”
“Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.”
“Chance is as relentless as necessity.”
Source: Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
“Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.”
Source: Pictures and conversations
“Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.”
“Chance is commonly viewed as a self-correcting process in which a deviation in one direction induces a deviation in the opposite direction to restore the equilibrium. In fact, deviations are not "corrected" as a chance process unfolds, they are merely diluted.”
Source: Preference, Belief, and Similarity: Selected Writings
“Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.”
“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”
Source: The Kitchen God's Wife
“Chance is the fool's name for Fate”
“Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.”
“Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.”
“Chance is the only source of true novelty.”
“Chance is the providence of adventurers.”
“Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.”
“Chance is the source of potential infinity and the primary source of real meaning in the manifestation (Universe) of the Absolute. Regardless of the unlimited potential for variations in quantity and quality within one universe as we understand it, such a world would still be limited in its manifestation and meaning if it were not a part of the Omniverse.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Chance is the true currency of all, and true wealth can be measured by the chances they took, and the chances they gave.”
“Chance is what is,
fate is what was,
and destiny is what will be.
The present is what is,
the past is what was,
and the future is what will be.
Reality is what is,
experience is what was,
and discovery is what will be.
The action is what is,
the intention is what was,
and the outcome is what will be.
Nature is what is,
oblivion is what was,
and eternity is what will be.
Awareness is what is,
perfection is what was,
and paradise is what will be.
The world is what is,
the beginning is what was,
and the end is what will be.
The Creator is what is,
the Creator is what was,
and the Creator is what will be.”
“Chance is when you look at the world through humanity’s eyes; providence is when you look at the world through God's eyes.”
“Chance is your god
Though you're falling free you will land hard”
Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile
“Chance likes to ride in back, standing up at red lights and pounding on the roof in (what he insists is) Morse code. We won't mention that to Dad.”
Source: Made of Stars
“Chance makes a plaything of a man's life.”
“Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.”
“Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.”
“Chance never writ a legible book; chance never built a fair house; chance never drew a neat picture; it never did any of these things, nor ever will; nor can it be without absurdity supposed able to do them; which yet are works very gross and rude, very easy and feasible, as it were, in comparison to the production of a flower or a tree.”
Source: The theological works: In 9 vols. Ed. ... by Alexander Napier
“Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.”
“Chance plays a powerful role in every life - our brains and personalities are just chemical soup, after all; a few drops here or there matter enormously - but consequences often become more serious as income levels go down.”
“Chance’ simply means historical contingency - this happens rather than that. It is not automatically to be given the tendentious adjective “blind”, as if it were an unambiguous sign of meaninglessness. Rather, it may be seen as signifying the shuffling exploration and realization of fertile possibilities, by which creation makes itself. This due independence of process is a good gift, but it has a necessary cost attached to it. Raggednesses and blind alleys, as well as fruitful outcomes, are inescapable accompaniments of this evolving self-realization. Biology even helps theology a little with the deep question of theodicy, the problem of the evil and suffering of the world. Exactly the same biochemical processes that enable some cells to mutate and produce new forms of life - in other words, the very engine that has driven the stupendous four billion year history of life on Earth - these same processes will inevitably allow other cells to mutate and become malignant. In a non-magic world, it could not be different, and the world is not magic because its Creator is not a capricious Magician. I do not pretend for a moment that this insight removes all the perplexities posed by the sufferings of creation. Yet it affords some mild help, in that it suggests that the existence of cancer is not gratuitous, as if it were due to the Creator’s callousness or incompetence. We all tend to think that if we had been in charge of creation we would have made a better job of it. We would have kept the nice things (flowers and sunsets) and got rid of the nasty (disease and disaster). The more science helps us to understand the process of the universe, the more, it seems to me, to cohere into a single ‘package deal’. The light and the dark are two sides of the same coin. John Polkinghorne, “Understanding the Universe”, Cosmic Questions, James. B Miller, ed.”
“Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.”
“Chance stifled a grin, and all I could think was that this girl had to be related to me. Only women who were related to me annoyed me this much.”
Source: Bloodstone
“Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.”
“Chance the Rapper: if you listen to his narrative and the subject matter he covers in his music, you can see that he's strong, courageous and shows vulnerability. He asks some very poignant questions in his music and is still very melodic. The harmony and the melody of the music allows you to also come in closer.”
“Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.”
“Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.”
Source: Being There