Top 100 By Chance Quotes
#1. We cross paths with certain people in our tangled lives for a reason. It's not by chance, not an accident but it's on a purpose. You were made to be part of someone's life for it was written long before you were born.- Elizabeth's Quotes
Elizabeth E. Castillo
#2. Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.
Anton Chekhov
#3. But if we admit that any event may come into existence by chance, and without a cause, the existence of the world may be accounted for in this same way; and atheism is established. - Mr.
Jonathan Edwards
#4. Your lot in life? A lot is something you draw, like straws. It's chance. You didn't get this life by chance. You chose it on purpose. If you're dissatisfied from it, you can change it.
Jennifer Echols
#5. The world is governed by chance. Randomness stalks us every day of our lives.
Paul Auster
#6. Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#7. In any moment, there were so many chances for paths to cross and people to clash, come together, or do any number of things in between. It was amazing we could live at all, knowing all that could occur purely by chance. But what was the alternative?
Sarah Dessen
#8. I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.
Francis Bacon
#9. I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy;
But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
Moliere
#10. The books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound by much.
Herman Melville
#11. Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time? he couldn't remember, all he could remember was that at some point thiw was what he believed ...
Roberto Bolano
#12. Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#14. It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance.
Wernher Von Braun
#15. We are ruled by chance but never have enough patience to accept its despotism.
Edward Dahlberg
#16. Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.
Jacques Delille
#17. Nothing by chance, nothing is random, nothing is in vain, nothing is trivial
Miguel El Portugues
#18. But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
Albert Claude
#19. For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events in order or wisely omits them. Everything we forget about our own lives was really condemned to oblivion by an inner instinct long ago.
Stefan Zweig
#20. How often might a man, after he had jumbled a set of letters in a bag, fling them out upon the ground before they would fall into an exact poem, yea, or so much as make a good discourse in prose? And may not a little book be as easily made by chance as this great volume of the world?
John Tillotson
#21. I definitely come down on the spiritual side. I think very few things in life happen by chance.
Evangeline Lilly
#22. If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.
Edward Thomas
#23. Success does not come to a person's life by chance; you have to fight for it
Sunday Adelaja
#24. The ancient covenant is in pieces; man knows at last that he is alone in the universe's unfeeling immensity, out of which he emerged only by chance. His destiny is nowhere spelled out, nor is his duty. The kingdom above or the darkness below: it is for him to choose.
Jacques Monod
#25. Have more confidence in yourself than allowing your decisions to happen just by chance.
L. Tom Perry
#26. Ian - is that by chance Ian Murray?" Grey asked, but then answered himself. "I suppose it must be; how many Mohawks can there be named Ian?
Diana Gabaldon
#27. If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
You may get a bland smile from these sages;
But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!
W.S. Gilbert
#28. In order to act freely, we must act by chance, which is absurd, and what no man will dare to avow.
Jonathan Edwards
#29. We possess our body by chance and we are already pleased with it. If our physical bodies went through ten thousand transformations without end, how incomparable would this joy be! Therefore the sage roams freely in the realm in which nothing can escape, but all endures.
Zhuangzi
#30. I got into the business all by chance. I really enjoy what I do now, but it wasn't always a huge dream of mine. I think I always had thought about it growing up, though.
Jaimie Alexander
#31. How much better it would be, she thinks, if the world were ruled by chance and not a God.
Jenny Erpenbeck
#32. Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.
Stanley Kubrick
#33. Know that whatever experience ye have in the material sojourns for a purpose. Know that it is not by chance that ye are in a material or earthly consciousness in the present. For know that all activities of the mind, of the body, must be based upon spiritual things.
Edgar Cayce
#35. By choice or by chance, we must actively test our limits to know our capabilities.
Marian Deegan
#36. Almost all the people who've had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn't but have met them.
W. Somerset Maugham
#37. Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.
Bill Crawford
#38. The important things happen by chance. Only the rest gets planned.
Jeanette Winterson
#39. I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there just somehow by chance.
Roger Penrose
#40. I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.
Claude Monet
#41. One cannot divine nor forecast the conditions that will make happiness; one only stumbles upon them by chance, in a lucky hour, at the world's end somewhere, and holds fast to the days, as to fortune or fame.
Daniel M. Gilbert
#42. How many people meet by chance and then separate as if nothing has happened, without knowing that they were perfect for each other?
Donato Carrisi
#43. What I want is for the two of us to meet somewhere by chance one day, like, passing on the street, or getting on the same bus.
Haruki Murakami
#44. It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.
Henri Nouwen
#45. My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.
Andrea Bocelli
#46. To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.
Pierre-Paul Grasse
#47. Serendipity: Such a beautiful word describing the occurrence of events by chance. I like to think it's the energy you put out into the world
returning your energy with love.
Steven Aitchison
#48. Of the thousand experiences we have, we find language for one at most and even this one merely by chance and without the care it deserves.
Pascal Mercier
#49. I can't help but feel that stuff that comes to me by chance or on purpose, whatever, tends to reflect where I am as a human being.
Kyle MacLachlan
#50. I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
Gaspard Ulliel
#51. There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#52. I think the pinnacle of misfortune is to be forced by chance to want things one should loathe.
Seneca.
#53. No, Finnick repeats. 'Because whatever happened in the past is the past. And no one in this arena was a victor by chance.' He eyes Peeta for a moment. 'Except maybe Peeta.'
Finnick knows then what Haymitch and I know. About Peeta. Being truly, deep-down better than the rest of us.
Suzanne Collins
#54. Bad things, like good things don't happen any more often than they ought to by chance. the universe has no mind, no feelings, and no personality, so it doesn't do things in order to either hurt or please you. bad things happen because things happen.
Richard Dawkins
#55. Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.
Georg Solti
#56. By chance we met, by choice we become friend
Millie Huang
#57. I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#58. Your destiny is shaped by choice, never by chance. Beware the decisions you make, no matter how small, for they will be your salvation ... or your death.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#59. Is this the curse of modernity, to live in a world without judgment, without perspective, no context for understanding or distinguishing what is real and what is imagined, what is manipulated and what is by chance beautiful, what is shadow and what is flesh?
Terry Tempest Williams
#60. Brilliant results don't just show up by chance. The finest things in life take patience, focus and sacrifice.
Robin Sharma
#62. If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.
Emmanuelle Riva
#63. The future does not happen just by chance.
Susan Patron
#64. I started acting pretty much by accident. I was doing read-throughs for a playwright who I was assisting, and then an agency saw me and said they wanted to represent me and get with me through my training and so on and so forth. It was pretty much by chance.
Guy Burnet
#65. Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.
Horace Walpole
#66. All of life is an announcement of who we are. The only question is whether this proclamation will be made by choice or by chance.
Neale Donald Walsch
#67. No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process
Fela Durotoye
#68. Affliction does not come by chance - the weight of every stroke of the rod - is accurately measured.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#69. ! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.
Sebastiao Salgado
#70. By chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.
Louis Pasteur
#71. Strangers passing in the street
By chance two separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me
Pink Floyd
#72. What men call chance is simply their ignorance of causes; if the statement that something had happened by chance were to mean that it had no cause, it would be a contradiction in terms.
Rene Guenon
#73. A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,
True but for lying,
honest but for stealing,
Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.
John Harington
#74. I do my thing and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I. And if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#75. Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
Albert Camus
#76. The first rule of style is to have something to say. The second rule of style is to control yourself when, by chance, you have two things to say; say first one, then the other, not both at the same time.
George Polya
#77. Every time Jimmy Scott sings, it's the same but slightly different. I don't know how he does that or where he gets that from. I think it's instinct. Nothing he does is by chance; he's in complete control of what he's doing. He's just beautiful and unique.
Sufjan Stevens
#78. I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again.
If by chance it is not night.
Pascal Mercier
#79. Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.
Masha Tupitsyn
#80. A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.
Ben Jonson
#81. Function is a fantasy ... the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.
David Pye
#82. It is only by chance that we are reminded of the permanent circumstances of our life.
Paul Valery
#83. A curious world isn't it? We think we meet people by chance when chance has nothing to do with it.
Galen Beckett
#84. No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.
Michel De Montaigne
#85. I'm happy to have a physical part in 'High Tension,' in 'Hereafter,' and in a lot of French movies and Belgian movies. But its not by chance directors choose me for physical parts. I like to do that. I like to tell a story also with the body. It's important, because you can tell a lot of things.
Cecile De France
#86. May the roads we travel never lead us astray, but if by chance we lose our way, may the echoes of laughter guide us back home some day.
Pamela Sparkman
#87. Scared by the thought , brooded awhile on his own past, groping in all the corners of memory, lest by chance some jack-in-the-box of an old iniquity, should leap to light there.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#88. Have you by chance brought some real British tea? Twining's? Or from Jackson's in Piccadilly?
Anthony Burgess
#89. All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
Natalia Makarova
#90. Who is Dr. A. von Holstein? And is he related, by chance, to a race of cows?
Darynda Jones
#91. Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance ...
John Calvin
#93. These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#94. The progress of science depends much less upon either theoretical considerations or systematic investigation than is commonly believed, but rather on the transmittal of reliable information, gained by chance or insight, from one set of men to their successors.
Gene Wolfe
#95. The fact that nobody played tennis in my family and you'd say by chance they make three tennis courts in front of the restaurant that my family owned when I was 4, I think that's a destiny. That's kind of life circumstances that kind of come together for you to become who you want to become.
Novak Djokovic
#96. About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.
Hippocrates
#97. What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.
Katsuki Sekida
#98. The artist is always concerned with a total view of the world. However, when the photographer takes a picture ... the edge of his picture is just as interesting as the middle, one can only guess at the existence of a whole, and the view presented seems chosen by chance.
Eugene Delacroix
#99. Christ, on the other hand, declares that every single one of God's creatures is under his hand and care, and that nothing happens by chance. In
John Calvin
#100. We live by choice, not by chance.
Hal Urban
