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Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

Chance favors those in motion.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

Chance favours a prepared mind.

Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Chance encounters are what keep us going.

Chance favours the trained mind.

Chance in music doesn't have to involve the I Ching or rolling dice or throwing yarrow stalks. It can involve an out-of-tune guitar, or other impossible-to-replicate moments of awkwardness - even more so than an awkward, out-of-tune live performance, because there's something incredible about the way that an out-of-tune guitar becomes part of the song on a record. I won't be precious and say it's part of the composition - that's nonsensica l - but chance occurrences are so crucial to what's distinctive. It's the fingerprints all over so many of these recordings.

Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

Chance is as relentless as necessity.

Chance is better than choice; it is more lordly. Chance is God, choice is man.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

Chance favors those who are prepared.

Chance is a second master.

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Chance is a nickname for Providence.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.

Chances are where you find them

Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.

Chance wore a white tuxedo with tails. On anyone else? Doopy. On him? Yes, please.

Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.

Chantal is having a relationship with a sentence. Just one of those things. A chance meeting that grew into something important for the both of them.

Character + Chance = Success

Chicks named Tammy have a greater chance of actually driving a Mercedes than a chick named Mercedes.

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

Children should be given the chance to play instruments, to sing.

Choice not chance determines your destiny [my family motto...credited to Aristotle]

Choose action, not rest. Choose the good in life in all things, and choose the opportunity as well as the chance to work when springtime smiles on your face.

Choose to chance the rapids and dare to dance the tide.

Choices not chance determine your destiny.

Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!

Citizenship is the chance to make a difference to the place where you belong.

Civilized people have exchanged some part of their chances of happiness for a measure of security.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

Committing to happiness increases your chances for success.

Come on obstacles! I've been expecting you! This is the chance that I've been waiting for!

Come writers and critics Who prophesize with your pen And keep your eyes wide The chance won't come again And don't speak too soon For the wheel's still in spin And there's no tellin' who That it's namin' For the loser now Will be later to win For the times they are a-changin'.

concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.

Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance.

Conflict is just another chance for agreement.

Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.