Best chance & accidents Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

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

Art Chance Painting Fine Art Is Accidents Sensitive Arbitrary

Book:Sommer: Words

Source: Sommer: Words

“In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary point and take details for granted: two trivialities omitted can add up to an impasse). The unpractised writer, even after the dawn of a conscience, gives him no such chance; before he can spot the point he has to tease his way through a maze of symbols of which not the tiniest suffix can be skipped.”

“I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.”

Littles Chance Example Accidents Helpful Canvas Brushes Cleaning Spilling Gauntlet

Author:Joan Miro

“It's not by accident that this has not been resolved in 50 years, but I believe this is the best chance we will have for a long time for there to be a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians.”

Years Believe Long I Believe Chance Long Time Israel Accidents Agreement Palestinian

Author:Sandy Berger

“You must walk that tightrope between accident and discipline. Accident by itself…so what? Discipline by itself is boring. By walking that tightrope and putting down something on a canvascoming from your guts, you have a chance of making marks that will live longer than you.”

Chance Walks Discipline Walking Mark Boring Accidents Guts

Author:Fritz Scholder

“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.”

Chance Wind Slave Blow Accidents Guilty

Author:William Shakespeare

“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.”

Men Causes Process Chance Deals Mercy Accidents

Book:Bulletin

Source: Bulletin

“First Theory . There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus.”

Firsts Universe Heaven Chance Theory Accidents Providence

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.”

Ifs Children Home Dies Chance Numbers Dangerous Car Type Gun Majority Accidents Hunting Cigarette Holding On Loaded Lighters Firearms Fatality Loaded Gun

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.”

People Men War Fall Heaven Chance Fire Accidents Cosmic Inevitability Descending Asteroids

Author:David Zindell

“Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.”

“To diminish envy, let us consider not what others possess, but what they enjoy; mere riches may be the gift of lucky accident or blind chance, but happiness must be the result of prudent preference and rational design; the highest happiness then can have no other foundation than the deepest wisdom; and the happiest fool is only as happy as he knows how to be.”

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“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.”

Ifs Should Chance Generations Moved Accidents Atoms Mutation Fortuitous

Book:Select discourses

Source: Select discourses

“It is strictly and philosophically true in Nature and reason that there is no such thing as chance or accident; it being evident that these words do not signify anything really existing, anything that is truly an agent or the cause of any event; but they signify merely men's ignorance of the real an immediate cause.”

Men Real Reason Causes Chance Events Ignorance Accidents Agents Evident

Author:Adam Clarke

“The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As long as water and coffee and jelly exist, a certain percentage of each will necessarily be overturned upon a like number of snowy white tablecloths. Usually the tragedy is really no one's fault.”

Long Happens Certain Water Chance White Numbers Eating Tragedy Tables Faults Dinner Accidents Coffee Percentages Chances Are Lurking Jelly Dinner Table Snowy

Book:Etiquette Every Child Should Know

Source: Etiquette Every Child Should Know

“God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.”

Chance Cases Events Blind Accidents Capricious

Author:R. C. Sproul

“My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.”

Problem Fall Chance Bed Solutions Accidents Habitual

Author:Robert Benchley

“What is the problem of women's freedom? It seems to me to be this: how to arrange the world so that women can be human beings, with a chance to exercise their infinitely varied gifts in infinitely varied ways, instead of being destined by the accident of their sex to one field of activity--housework and child-raising. And second, if and when they choose housework and child-raising to have that occupation recognized by the world as work, requiring a definite economic reward and not merely entitling the performer to be dependent on some man.”

“There is no escaping the fact that, even in a great career, sometimes the best advances happen through luck, chance and accident.”

Sometimes Facts Happens Chance Careers Luck Accidents Escaping

Author:Edmond H. Fischer

“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.”

Men Made Character Chance Failing Becoming Accidents Ridiculous Every Man Short Time

Author:Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

“I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.”

Thinking Chance Accidents Mediums Painter Unpredictability

Book:フランシス・ベーコン

Source: フランシス・ベーコン

“I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.”

Want Chance Accidents

Book:Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].

Source: Francis Bacon, recent paintings, 1968-1974: March 20-Jun 29, 1975, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York : [catalog].

“Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.”

Wanted Actors Chance Happened Yeah Accidents Get Back Chances Are

Author:Carrie Fisher

“Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence sucess is a matter of choice and not chance.”

Matter Choices Chance Results Attitude Accidents Sucess

Author:Shiv Khera

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