Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

This chance will stand before you only once.

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• There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization and possibly cause the extinction of the human race. But, on the bright side, Prince could re-release his hit song with the new refrain 'We're gonna party like its twenty-eight seventy-nine.'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Song
  • Earth
  • Party

• I don't think I'm going to become Brad Pitt overnight, but I presume if walk down Oxford Street, there is a chance someone might clock me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Think
  • Me
  • Chance

• The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Chance
  • Goal

• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
  • Time
  • Good
  • Chance

• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • Die
  • Chance
  • Finding

• Nobody has yet proven that taking a chance and doing something unique that an audience isn't used to is a bad idea. What the theater lacks is that kind of courage.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Bad
  • Courage
  • Chance

• The Supreme Court is having a hard time integrating schools. What chance do I have to integrate audiences?

  

  Nat King Cole
  • Time
  • Chance
  • Court

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Good
  • She
  • Man

• If you call yourself a leader, then you have to be decisive. If you're decisive, then you have the chance to be a leader. These are two sides to the same coin.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Chance
  • Same
  • Leader

• I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Want
  • Chance
  • Season

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Direction

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Change
  • Chance
  • Changes

• When the space shuttle's engines cut off, and you're finally in space, in orbit, weightless... I remember unstrapping from my seat, floating over to the window, and that's when I got my first view of Earth. Just a spectacular view, and a chance to see our planet as a planet.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Remember
  • Earth
  • Space

• People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Chance

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  

  Carl Levin
  • Learning
  • Democracy
  • Chance

• Sanctions did indeed help to bring Iran to the negotiating table. But sanctions did not stop the advance of Iran's nuclear program. Negotiations have done that, and it is in our interest not to deny ourselves the chance to achieve a long-term, comprehensive solution that would deny Iran a nuclear weapon.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Long
  • Done
  • Help

• Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • People
  • Work
  • Believe

• If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Chance
  • Animal
  • Human

• I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

  

  Sean William Scott
  • Thinking
  • Comedy
  • Chance

• To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and rank organs, must require a rocky heart, and a great degree of cruelty and ferocity. I cannot find any great difference between feeding on human flesh and feeding on animal flesh, except custom and practice.

  

  George Cheyne
  • Heart
  • Cruelty
  • Feeding

• The world looks at what you have, while God sees who you have. The world's system is based on what you have done, while God looks at what Jesus has done on the cross for you.

  

  Joseph Prince
  • World
  • Done
  • Looks

• This chance will stand before you only once.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Chance