Chance Quotes
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Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
Oprah Winfrey
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Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.
Barbara Holland
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My chance, when it came, was due, literally, to the fact that I was slender.... You cannot make an opera audience believe that a man will endanger his soul, and commit robbery and murder for a very stout lady's sake.
Maria Jeritza
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I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.
Joanne Rowling
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I'm working hard and I think I'm where I should be at by now but I'm in no hurry at all, I'm taking one fight at a time, I want to win my fights. With the title shot I don't know yet but if I get the chance someday, I will be more than ready.
Alexander Gustafsson
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I knew, in the silence that followed, that anything could happen here. It might be too late: again, I might have missed my chance. But I would at least know I tried, that I took my heart and extended my hand, whatever the outcome. "Okay," he said. He took a breath. "What would you do, if you could do anything?" I took a step toward him, closing the space between us. "This," I said. And then I kissed him.
Sarah Dessen
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The class distinctions simply result from the different degrees of success with which men have availed themselves of the chances which were presented to them. Instead of endeavoring to redistribute the acquisitions which have been made between the existing classes, our aim should be to increase, multiply, and extend the chances.
William Graham Sumner
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You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.
Steve Burke
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The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.
Sanford I. Weill
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
Lewis H. Lapham
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Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.
Alecko Eskandarian
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...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.
Ishmael Beah
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Nothing is ever 100 per cent. Plays happen in a split second. (Referees) have to make that decision in a nanosecond. Now that you have a chance to take a look at it again, I think it enhances the integrity of the game.
Keith Pelley
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I want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.
Christina Aguilera
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Every man has a right to change, a chance of forgiveness.
John Marston
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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
Sophocles
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Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.
Ernst Zundel
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If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.
Sebastian Thrun
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Paris, Texas gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.
Harry Dean Stanton
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When you make the schedule, you're not planning on playing deep into every single week, or at least I haven't in the past. I'm not physically or mentally ready to pick up my bags and go to Monte Carlo. I definitely have to look at what's best for my chances at (at the French Open).
Andy Roddick
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When you come to Denmark, you have the chance to live in a free, peaceful country with access to free education, free medical aid and the opportunity to work. To benefit from that requires responsibility. If you don’t assume that responsibility, it is a breach in trust.
Mette Frederiksen
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Concealed anger is to be feared; but hatred openly manifested destroys its chance of revenge.
Seneca the Younger
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In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.
Erwin Rommel