Chance Quotes - Page 23

• You can imagine an already unstable mind that's completely entitled and has been given anything they wanted, throughout their whole life, and lived in a bubble with a domineering, in a very quietly manipulating way, mother, that child mentality never gets a chance to mature and discover its own limitations. It just runs rampant.

  Finn Wittrock

  Mother, Running, Children

  Source: collider.com

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• I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.

  E. B. White

  Pigs, Roles, Given

  E. B. White (2014). “Essays of E. B. White”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Audacity, Succeed, Failing

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Giving, Get Away

  Winston Churchill (2001). “The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill”, Michael O'Mara Books

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• If one took no chances, one would not fly at all. Safety lies in the judgment of the chances one takes.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Lying, Safety, Judgment

  Charles Augustus Lindbergh (1970). “The wartime journals of Charles A. Lindbergh”, Harcourt

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• Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Men, Community, Virtue

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1980). “Shelley on Love: An Anthology”, p.89, Univ of California Press

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• Once the day's work starts there is little chance to walk, to ride or to take part in a game. Taking walks or rides early in the morning is a lonesome business, and the inevitable Secret Service guard when the president leaves the White House grounds is not enlivening company.

  Herbert Hoover

  Morning, White, Games

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: The cabinet and the presidency, 1920-1933”

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• Our individualism is rooted in our very nature. It is based on conviction born of experience. Equal opportunity, the demand for a fair chance, became the formula of American Individualism because it is the method of American achievement.

  Herbert Hoover

  Opportunity, Achievement, Demand

  Herbert Hoover (2005). “American Individualism”, p.65, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

  John Steinbeck

  Brave

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.188, Penguin

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• Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

  Charles Simic

  Art, Found Objects, Sculpture

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• Serendipitous discoveries are made by chance, found without looking for them but possible only through a sharp vision and sagacity, ready to see the unexpected and never indulgent with the apparently unexplainable.

  Horace Walpole

  Discovery, Vision, Unexpected

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• We may taste of every turn of chance - now rule as Kings, now serve as Slaves; now love, now hate; now prosper, and now perish. But still, through all, we are the same; for this is the marvel of Identity.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Kings, Hate, Identity

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.2402, Delphi Classics

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• Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

  Mel Brooks

  Fun, Looks, Take A Chance

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Alex Belth, www.thedailybeast.com. February 16, 2014.

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• I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Eight, Cry, Sixty

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, People, Guy

  "Featured Filmmaker: Clint Eastwood". www.ign.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I try not to take any foolish chances, but there's just no way to play it completely safe and still do your job.

  Ernie Pyle

  Jobs, Play, Trying

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• When I was in my routine training for the Israeli army as a teenager, they discovered completely by chance that I was a lethal sniper. I could hit the target smack in the center further away than anyone could believe. Not just that, even though I was tiny and not even much of an athlete, I was incredibly accurate throwing hand grenades too. Even today I can load a Sten automatic rifle in a single minute, blindfolded.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Teenager, Believe, Athlete

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• Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Four Elements, Climate

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.104, Princeton University Press

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• Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  War, Elements, Needed

  Carl von Clausewitz (2008). “On War”, p.85, Princeton University Press

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• If you've as many films as I have, and missed as many opportunities as I have to do good work and been pissed off about it, you say, "Well, now you've got to start getting it right." If you get a chance, you really want to cook. And the tragedy is, when you finally feel that way about yourself, about your work, nobody wants to give you a chance. And that happens to a lot of actors. But I'm feeling very wanted these days, so there must be something in the air.

  Burt Reynolds

  Opportunity, Air, Giving

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.

  Betty Ford

  Baby, Opportunity, Men

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• I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid...

  David Beckham

  Regret, Real, Later In Life

  "Thanks all round at parting of ways" by David Harbord, www.theguardian.com. June 17, 2003.

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• If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.

  Steve Pavlina

  Strong, Reality, Roots

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• Keep your paragraphs short. Writing is visual - it catches the eye before it has a chance to catch the brain.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Eye, Brain

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• The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?

  Tyson Chandler

  Behind You, Feels, Behinds

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