Quotes with chance

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  • Calvin Coolidge Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • William Shakespeare Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Boethius Thus, where'er the drift of hazard
    Seems most unrestrained to flow,
    Chance herself is reined and bitted,
    And the curb of law doth know.
    De Consolatione Philosophia
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Bette Davis To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.
    The lonely life: an autobiography
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Arthur Erickson Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Dinah Shore Trouble is a part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the person that loves you enough chance to love you enough.
    Dinah Shore
    American singer, actress and presenter (1916 - 1994)
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  • Alexander Pope True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those move easiest who have learned to dance. 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence. The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung Unfortunately, there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and darker it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it. Furthermore, it is constantly in contact with other interests, so that it is continually subjected to modifications. But if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets co
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Bonnie Bedelia Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.
    Bonnie Bedelia
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Bootsy Collins Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
    Bootsy Collins
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1951 - )
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  • Tacitus Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Bayard Taylor Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz War is the province of chance. In no other sphere of human activity must such a margin be left for this intruder. It increases the uncertainty of every circumstance and deranges the course of events.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Marcel Proust We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Desmond Morris We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
    Desmond Morris
    British zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter (1928 - )
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  • Henry Kissinger We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
    Henry Kissinger
    American politician (1923 - 2023)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Barbara Boxer We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Arthur Capper We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
    Arthur Capper
    American politician (1865 - 1951)
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