Chance Operations

Famous quotes containing the words chance and/or operations:

“yet there was a chance in this
To see the present as it never had existed,
Clear and shapeless, in an atmosphere like cut glass.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“It may seem strange that any road through such a wilderness should be passable, even in winter, when the snow is three or four feet deep, but at that season, wherever lumbering operations are actively carried on, teams are continually passing on the single track, and it becomes as smooth almost as a railway.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)