Chance Quotes
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.
Niels Henrik David Bohr
Ive always wondered if people who block each other from expressing their opinions do so because they have so little confidence in their own. To me, encountering an opposing point of view is a chance to gain a deeper understanding of the issues at stake... and develop my own point of view. But the first thing youve got to do is youve got to let people speak and youve got to listen. And thats what the first amendment is all about. Thats what really distinguishes this country from others.
Michael Bloomberg
War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing he cares about more than his personal safety; is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart Mill
We do not what we ought, What we ought not, we do, And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through.
Matthew Arnold
The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some absolute and universal standard of right, and one where the individual shares are determined partly by accident or good will or chance, but b.
Friedrich August Hayek
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian he can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
If you have had a bad day, remember that tomorrow is a wonderful gift, and a new chance to try again.
Bryant McGill
In the stories about life and death, the soul often floats above the goodbye moment, hovering over police cars at highway accidents, or clinging like a spider to hospital room ceilings. These are people who receive a second chance, who somehow, for some reason, resume their place in the world. Eddie, it appeared, was not getting a second chance.
Albom, Mitch
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
Jane Austen
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion and desire
Aristotle
Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.
Aristotle
The only chance women have for justice in this country is to violate the law, as I have done, and as I shall continue to do.
Susan Brownell Anthony Jacob
We didn't seek this out, but after an in-depth exploration it makes sense for us. We think these guys have a real chance to be part of our future.
Andrew Friedman
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
Terence
