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Quotes About Chance

Opportunity never comes to you but you should create an opportunity.
~ TanmayChand
When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open.
~ Bob Marley
Destiny is the music of the improbable. Were it otherwise, almost anyone could exist.
~ Kenneth Patchen, Poemscapes
Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window.
~ Julie Andrews
No second chances in the land of a thousand dances, the valley of ten million insanities.
~ Ry Cooder, Los Angeles Stories
I think I'll give them another chance. Americans deserve another chance with my music.
~ Albert Ayler
People who try to create a musical revolution do not have a chance, but those who turn their back to music can sometimes find it.
~ Pierre Schaeffer
No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
~ Christopher Walken
When you've got nothing, you've got nothing to loose.
~ Bob Dylan
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
~ Baruch Spinoza
Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.
~ Walter A. Shewhart
Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wherever there is failure, there is some giddiness, some superstition about luck, some step omitted, which, Nature never pardons.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.
~ Fred Hoyle
Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
~ Arthur Eddington
Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.
~ Frank Herbert
The nature of tragedy and accident is that we cannot predict.
~ Nikki Giovanni
If human nature felt no temptation to take a chance there might not be much investment merely as a result of cold calculation.
~ John Maynard Keynes
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.
~ Washington Irving
Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If nature has taught us anything it is that the impossible is probable
~ Ilyas Kassam
There is a whole world out there, waiting for you. A world filled with opportunities wherever and whenever you want to grasp them. And whether you do or you don't…. well that is totally up to you.
~ Jellis Vaes
When forces of nature are involved, fate gets all the blame.
~ Maxine Clair, October Suite
Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.
~ Walter Bradford Cannon