#chance

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ↗

— David Elkind

#adolescence #chance #childhood #choice #friendships

All good ideas arrive by chance. ↗

— Max Ernst

#chance #good #good ideas #ideas

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by. ↗

— Eva Figes

#chance #done #fear #given #hidden

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! ↗

— Anatole France

#art #chance #come #could #earth

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#bit #bold #business #chances #cool

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#arrested #been #chance #child-like #cocoon

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#because #chance #dear #enough #feel

I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. ↗

— Arnold Palmer

#felt #i #never #win

It seemed like my favourite kind of job - a wonderful chance to ask something absolutely fundamental: the fate of the Universe and whether the Universe was infinite or not. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#ask #chance #fate #favourite #fundamental

I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest. ↗

— Florynce R. Kennedy

#bed #chance #course #death #dying