Quotes with chance

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  • Abigail Adams Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Leisure only means a chance to do other jobs that demand attention.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Billy West Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • Henry Giles Literature, as a field of glory, is an arena where a tomb may be more easily found than laurels; and as a means of support, it is the chance of chances.
    Henry Giles
    British Unitarian minister and writer (1809 - 1882)
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  • John Donne Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; But being got it is a treasure sweet, which to defend is harder than to get: And ought not be profaned on either part, for though 'Tis got by chance, 'Tis kept by art.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Louis Ferdinand Céline Love, Arthur, is a poodle's chance of attaining the infinite, and personally I have my pride.
    Louis Ferdinand Céline
    French writer (1894 - 1961)
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  • Baltasar Gracián Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Emily Dickinson Luck is not chance, it is toil. Fortune is expensive smile is earned.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • Richard Cobden Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
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  • Doris Lessing Man who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Maurice Maeterlinck Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
    Maurice Maeterlinck
    Belgian poet, playwright and Nobel Prize winner (1911) (1862 - 1949)
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  • Cam Newton Most of the time, I don't really give people a chance. I have a wall up. I'm always protecting who I am. Thinking about my brand. I make it hard on people. Sometimes, it's a good thing. Sometimes, it's a bad thing.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
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  • Bella Thorne My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Herbert Hoover My country owes me nothing. It gave me, as it gives every boy and girl, a chance. It gave me schooling, independence of action, opportunity for service and honor. In no other land could a boy from a country village, without inheritance or influential friends, look forward with unbounded hope.
    Herbert Hoover
    American engineer, businessman and politician (1874 - 1964)
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  • Bruce Springsteen My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bob Schieffer My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Blair Underwood My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
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  • Jean Baudrillard Neither dead nor alive, the hostage is suspended by an incalculable outcome. It is not his destiny that awaits for him, nor his own death, but anonymous chance, which can only seem to him something absolutely arbitrary. He is in a state of radical emergency, of virtual extermination.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bob Barker Networks decide who will have a chance to do shows, but it is the viewers who make the final decision of who stays and who goes. I am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
    Bob Barker
    American television game show host (1923 - )
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  • Gore Vidal Never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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