Chances Are Quotes - Page 6

• Turn down offers for new cards or credit line increases on your current cards. Credit's tight, and chances are, you're not getting many offers anyway. But if you do, remember that the less credit you have available, the less trouble you can get into.

  Jean Chatzky

  Cards, Credit, Lines

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• When the fat lady comes out to sing, we don't know how she feels that day. We don't know if she's suffering from a cold or is mourning a death or falling in love. We don't know. But so all of that chance is the performance.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Falling In Love, Mourning, Suffering

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• If you can make any religion look idiotic, chances are you haven't understood that religion.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Looks, Chance, Idiotic

  Source: verticallivingministries.com

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• If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

  Joyce Hall

  Men, Ideas, Chance

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• If you know how to shoot, and are quite ready to shoot, the chances are that you won't have to shoot.

  John J. Pershing

  Chance, Ready, Know How

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• If you're waiting around for something to be handed to you or win the lottery, chances are nothing is ever going to go down, you know, so you got to make it happen on your own.

  Aaron Bruno

  Winning, Waiting Around, Chance

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• Be a teacher. If someone is acting hurtful toward you, chances are high that they're doing the same to others. By speaking up and taking action, you are helping others who might be hurt from this person unless they are reigned in.

  Doreen Virtue

  Teacher, Hurt, Helping Others

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• I believe that what I've worked for - women and children, civil rights against poverty, trying to level the playing field for people to have a better chance - is what I still believe is important and what I'm trying to do today.

  Hillary Clinton

  Children, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I dealt with people with diverse political views. If you find people who are your political opponents, and talk to them for an hour, chances are you're going to like them, and they're not full of hate.

  Cass Sunstein

  Hate, Views, People

  "Cass Sunstein explains why Star Wars is like America". Interview with Alex McLevy, film.avclub.com. June 2, 2016.

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• The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.

  Clint Smith

  Gun, Rifles, Needs

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• If what makes you happy is going out and living it up and spending all your money on wine, women, and song, the world doesn't need that. But on the other hand, if you give your life to good works - you go and work in a leper colony and it doesn't make you happy - the chances are you're not doing it very well.

  Frederick Buechner

  Song, Wine, Hands

  Interview with Bob Abernethy, www.pbs.org. April 5, 2006.

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• If you dread the thought of wasted time in meetings, chances are that your team members feel the same way. Team members are also demotivated by one-way discussions, haphazard participation and arbitrary decisions. Structure every meeting at the start and summarize them at the end.

  Martin Zwilling

  Team, Decision, Arbitrary

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

  Benjamin Graham

  Art, Skills, Important

  Benjamin Graham (1962). “Security Analysis: Principles and Technique”

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• If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Done, Chance, Ifs

  Charles R. Swindoll (1998). “Hand Me Another Brick”, p.38, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.

  Tim Lebbon

  Moving, Fate, Sacrifice

  Tim Lebbon (2003). “Face”, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated

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• I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.

  Berton Braley

  Art, Believe, Hard Work

  Berton Braley (1934). “Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel”

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• I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. … Compare children's books and books on Web Duhsign or other X-in-21-days books. If the reading level of a specification is below college level, chances are the people behind it are morons and the result morose.

  Erik Naggum

  Children, Believe, Book

  Re: "Well, I want to switch over to replace EMACS LISP with Guile." (Usenet article), groups.google.com. September 30, 2002.

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• Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

  Anthony Trollope

  Fall, Chance, Enough

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works”, p.141, 谷月社

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• One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

  Eric Hoffer

  Art, Literature, Chance

  "Eric Hoffer and the Art of the Notebook" by Tom Bethell in Harper's Magazine, July 2005.

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• The music of the people is like a rare and lovely flower growing amidst encroaching weeds. Thousands pass it, while others trample it under foot, and thus the chances are that it will perish before it is seen by the one discriminating spirit who will prize it above all else. The fact that no one has as yet arisen to make the most of it does not prove that nothing is there.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Weed, Flower, Feet

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• The chance is high that the truth lies in the fashionable direction. But, on the off-chance that it is in another direction - a direction obvious from an unfashionable view of field theory - who will find it? Only someone who has sacrificed himself by teaching himself quantum electrodynamics from a peculiar and unusual point of view; one that he may have to invent for himself.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Lying, Teaching, Views

  "The Development of the Space-Time View of Quantum Electrodynamics". Richard P. Feynman's Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1965.

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• As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Physicians, Chance, Valuable

  "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book II, Ch. 37, 1595.

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• What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order and regularity, and continuation in the whole, for ... I firmly believe, notwithstanding all our complaints, that almost every person upon earth tastes upon the totality more happiness than misery; and therefore if we could correct the world to our fancies, and with the best intentions imaginable, probably we should only produce more misery and confusion.

  Horace Walpole

  Believe, Men, Order

  Horace Walpole (1904). “The letters of Horace Walpole: fourth earl of Orford”

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• What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

  Katsuki Sekida

  Genius, Chance, Difficult

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• There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

  William Powell

  Hands, Ideas, Enemy

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 79, 1971.

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