Home / Topics / Chance Quotes

Chance Quotes

Browse 7631 quotes about Chance.

Chance Quotes

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.”

Want Persons Actors Natural Chance Fronts Direct Cameras Actresses Progression

Author:Jamie Foxx

“One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.”

World Mean Stills Natural Chance Sanity Natural World

Book:The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West

Source: The Sound of Mountain Water: The Changing American West

“Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.”

Men Understanding Natural Chance Bent Understanding Nature

Book:The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

Source: The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings

“Although the sovereignty of God is universal and absolute, it is not the sovereignty of blind power. It is coupled with infinite wisdom, holiness and love. And this doctrine, when properly understood, is a most comforting and reassuring one. Who would not prefer to have his affairs in the hands of a God of infinite power, wisdom, holiness and love, rather than to have them left to fate, or chance, or irrevocable natural law, or to short-sighted and perverted self? Those who reject God's sovereignty should consider what alternatives they have left.”

Source: The Reformed Doctrine of Predestination [Fifth Edition]

“Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.”

Natural Chance Increase Occupation Cents Vocation Eighty Nursing

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.”

Giving Body Natural Chance Letting Go Capacity Surrender Heal Tension Heal Itself

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.”

Source: Goodbye to a river: a narrative

“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster? To see rare effects, and no cause ; a motion, without a mover ; a circle, without a centre ; a time, without an eternity ; a second, without a first : these are things so against philosophy and natural reason, that he must be a beast in understanding who can believe in them. The thing formed, says that nothing formed it ; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not, This folly is infinite.”

“Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.”

Natural Chance Creation Fairs Foundation Favour Fountain Prophetic Poisoning Infidel Natural History General Education Unsoundness

Author:David Brewster

“... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.”

Ifs Individual Strong Natural Chance Principles Struggle Produce Sake Preservation Selection Inheritance Variation Natural Selection Brevity

Book:The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959

Source: The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959

“You surprise yourself on some balls off the bat. You don't think you have a chance to catch it. And then your natural ability just takes over.”

Thinking Natural Chance Ability Balls Surprise Bats Natural Ability

Author:Mike Trout