Quotes with chance

  • A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
  • Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
  • I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
  • It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
  • Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
  • Number one, it was a chance to thank my parents, because they passed away a couple of years ago. They gave me so much by giving me the opportunity to play soccer, and I wanted to share the story we had together.
  • As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
  • Every man whom chance alone has, by some accident, made a public character, hardly ever fails of becoming, in a short time, a ridiculous private one.
  • Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.
  • The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
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  • Aristotle All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A consistent man believes in destiny, a capricious man in chance.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Winston Churchill A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bart Conner Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
    Bart Conner
     
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  • Robert Greene Do not leave your reputation to chance or gossip; it is your life's artwork, and you must craft it, hone it, and display it with the care of an artist.
    The 48 Laws of Power
    Robert Greene
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Luis Bunuel Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Euripides Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.
    Euripides
    Greek tragedian and poet (480 - 406)
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  • Samuel Johnson No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. A man in a jail has more room, better food and commonly better company.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Thomas Jefferson 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
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lincoln Steffens Somebody must take a chance. The monkeys who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in trees making faces at the monkeys who did.
    Lincoln Steffens
     
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  • Sir Joshua Reynolds Taste does not come by chance: it is a long and laborious task to acquire it.
    Sir Joshua Reynolds
    British painter (1723 - 1792)
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  • Paul Valery That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Charles F. Kettering You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Jean Rostand A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Aldous Huxley 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
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Cowper A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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