C Quotes
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“Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze;
But if the pilot slumber at the helm,
The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port
May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part
Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.”
“Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.”
“Chance works for us when we are good captains.”
Source: The Egoist
“Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it.”
Source: Sweet Bird of Youth
“Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.”
Source: Letters of Two Brides
“Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust is now in him- and in myself. But above all in him, for when I go under he always fishes me out, seizing and shaking me like a life-saving dog whose teeth tear my skin a little every time. So now, whenever I despair, I no longer expect my end, but some bit of luck, some commonplace little miracle which, like a glittering link, will mend again the necklace of my days.”
“Chance. It weaves through our lives like a golden thread, sometimes knotting, tangling, and breaking along the way. Loose threads are left hanging, but the in and out, the back and forth continues, the weaving goes on. It doesn't stop.”
Source: The Miles Between
“Chance. Stupid, dumb, blind chance. Just a part of the strange mechanism of the world, with its fits and coughs and starts and random collisions.”
“Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.”
Source: Origin of Intelligence in the Child: Selected Works
“Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the veterans of many challenges over the last eight years.”
“Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has several times made statements to the effect that we Europeans should not cultivate a superficial anti-Americanism.
But mine isn't superficial at all.
Personally I have nothing against the US itself - it's a beautiful country - it's the people who live there that are the problem.
I guess you could say it's the same thing with Bavaria.”
“Chancellorsville marked the culmination of achievement for Lee's "glorious army" that remains indelibly etched in the nation's history. No American army, against such odds and in less than a year, compiled such a record as that of the Army of Northern Virginia, and none altered the direction of a conflict more.”
Source: A Glorious Army: Robert E. Lee's Triumph, 1862-1863
“Chancen kennen keine Regeln.”
Source: Sex bitte nur in der Suite - Aus dem Leben eines Grand Hoteliers
“Chances and of prosperity which by quote is lucky findest it way through them all , thick and thin, bold and unbold, poor of riches and prosperity, mighty and weakens but chances of Lucky happens a way of change to it all”
“Chances are, even your friends and family aren't really interested in reading your self-published book. Your mom might read it to do you a favor, but if it wasn't written by her precious little angel, she probably couldn't care less about it.”
Source: The Ugly Truth About Self-Publishing: Not another cookie-cutter contemporary romance
“Chances are if you find yourself caught up in a political foofaraw at work, or in some family squabble at home, it's because someone else is succeeding in convincing you that his problem is your problem. The non-self-destructor recognizes this and as soon as possible, gives the sleepless night back to the person to whom it belongs.”
Source: How to Self-Destruct: Making the Least of What's Left of Your Career
“Chances are no matter how bad your troubles seem to be, someone somewhere, with less resilience, has successfully conquered a more severe version of your problems.”
“Chances are no one is speaking to you in some secret code that can only be cracked by an enigma machine.”
“Chances are rarely given, and that is the best part. I never waited for a chance, I created my own.”
“Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it seems, the greater mother wisdom may lie in a willingness to clean up broken eggs or replace a mitten and a box of crayons.”
“Chances are that most of the people who find visits from Jehovah’s Witnesses annoying are Christians.”
“Chances are that neither the client nor the agency will ever know very much about what role the ad has played in sales or profits of the client, either short-term or long-term.”
Source: Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society
“Chances are that there are white people who brag about being the first to move out of a suburb that has been intruded by blacks.”
“Chances are that whatever that you are worried about—be it a person or a thing—isn’t worried about you.”
“Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.”
“Chances are where you find them”
“Chances are, while you can come across as introverted, the real reason for your apparent reserve is you’re happy to be the life of your own party (be it in your head or in your own space) rather than follow the crowd.”
Source: Pisces: Horoscope Compatibility
“Chances are you already know what you want. The question is, who is really stopping you?”
“Chances are you have business cards lying around from people you have met that are doing what you want to be doing who can help you - if you ask.”
“Chances are, you won't find the right love until you find the lifestyle you love.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.”
“Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know.”
“Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.”
“Chances rule men and not men chances.”
“Chances we don’t take turn into dreams we will forget.”
“Chanchad (restless, unsteadiness, unstill) cannot become acchad (still, steady) and acchad cannot become chanchad. One (The True Self) has to remain in the nature of the Self (Pure Soul).”
Source: Simple & Effective Science for Self Realization
“Chancing upon people unexpectedly is serendipity. Willingly seeking out people without protection and social distancing is covidipity.”
Source: Quantraz
“Chandeliers are marvels of drop-dead showiness, the jewellery of architecture.”
“CHANDIGARH: To check the illicit sex assurance tests being led in privately-run ultrasound focuses in Punjab, the state government has chosen to take assistance from private detective organizations.
The choice was taken by Health Minister Surjit Jayani at a meeting of the State Supervisory Board where significant choices were taken to get the Pre-Natal Diagnostic Techniques (Regulation and Prevention of Misuse) Act or PNDT Act actualized viably in Punjab.
Tending to the meeting, the Minister said that all the Civil Surgeons have additionally been coordinated to watch out for the exercises of all the ultrasound focuses being privately keep running in the state and have been made a request to make prompt move against any infringement of the PNDT Act.
He likewise said that the state government had been intense with unscrupulous proprietors of these focuses, thus of which the male female sex proportion in the state has enhanced significantly.
The male - female sex proportion in 2011 was 846, while in 2001 it was 798.
The legislature additionally climbed the money honor to Rs. 1 lakh from Rs. 20000 to any individual giving data about any ultrasound focuses enjoying illicit sex identification in Punjab.”
“Chandler's the guy everybody thinks will do well with women, but he thinks too much and says the wrong thing.”
“Chandrayaan 2's rover failed in wearing a proper helmet for its journey to the moon”
“Chandrayaan-3's gentle touch on the lunar surface echoes the spirit of human ingenuity and the limitless horizon of discovery. It's a reminder that every step towards the stars is a step towards unraveling the mysteries of the cosmos.”
Source: Faithful Footsteps: Discover the Pilgrimage Pathways with Ziyara Network
“Chandresh relishes reactions. Genuine reactions, not mere polite applause. He often values the reactions over the show itself. A show without an audience is nothing, after all. In the response of the audience, that is where the power of performance lives.”
“Chanel all the way! Just because not only do they have timeless pieces, but since it is the epitome of class and elegance.”
“Chanel freed women, and I empowered them.”
“Chanel is above all a style. Fashion passes, style remains.”
“Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with.”
“Chanel lambskin, vintage Vanson I'm on the bike doing wheelies in a mansion”
“Chanel liberated women: Saint Laurent gave them power.”
“Chanel was a workaholic. She must have had a lot to forget.”