Chance
A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.
The operation or activity of such agent.
The supposed effect of such an agent; something that befalls, as the result of unknown or unconsidered forces; the issue of uncertain conditions; an event not calculated upon; an unexpected occurrence; a happening; accident; fortuity; casualty.
A possibility; a likelihood; an opportunity; -- with reference to a doubtful result; as, a chance to escape; a chance for life; the chances are all against him.
Probability.
To happen, come, or arrive, without design or expectation.
To take the chances of; to venture upon; -- usually with it as object.
To befall; to happen to.
Happening by chance; casual.
By chance; perchance.
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Chance Quotations
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
Thomas Jefferson
If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
Abraham Lincoln
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham Lincoln
It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
Ronald Reagan
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
Ronald Reagan
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.
Steve Jobs
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
John Lennon
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chance Translations
chance in Afrikaans is gebeurtenis, geleentheid, kans
chance in Dutch is toevallig, incidenteel
chance in Finnish is mahdollisuus, sattuma
chance in French is hasard, chance
chance in Latin is fors-itis, fors fortis, casus, fortuna
chance in Portuguese is possibilidade
chance in Spanish is felicidad, acaso, ocasion, azar, acontecimiento
chance in Swedish is slump, chans, lycka
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