Chances Are Quotes - Page 7

Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing. Chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too.

Ellen DeGeneres

Phones, Hands, Focus

"Ellen DeGeneres: Here and Now". Comedy, Documentary, June 25, 2003.

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Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.

Criss Jami

Fashion, Moving, Crowds

Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.4, Criss Jami

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It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less your chance is. There can be no danger in honest thought, and if the world ever advances beyond what it is to-day, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Honesty, Real, Men

Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.759, Library of Alexandria

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A new survey indicates that Obama supporters love iPhones. So if you have an iPhone, chances are you are going to be supporting President Obama. In a related story, if you support Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey, chances are you love IHOP.

David Letterman

Obama Supporters, Iphone, President

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Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.

Bill Crawford

Creating, Missing, Want

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The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.

Frederick Lenz

Children, Practice, Meditation

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Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.

Arnold Haultain

Golf, Winning, Order

Arnold Haultain (1912). “The Mystery of Golf”

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I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.

Mary Oliver

Stars, Destiny, Feet

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I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances.

Ernest Hemingway

Grateful, Different, Another Chance

Ernest Hemingway, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1986). “Conversations with Ernest Hemingway”, p.113, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.

Eric Staal

Team, Winning, Years

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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, Chance

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

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Red Dragon's my favorite of the books, because it is written with such a poet's ear. Whenever it gets really flowery and poetic and it's dialogue, chances are that's a Thomas Harris quote of some kind that's kind of been repurposed or reinterpreted or re-imagined somehow. That's where a lot of that poetry comes from.

Bryan Fuller

Book, Dragons, Red

Source: www.avclub.com

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That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Lasts, Chance, Can Do

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1831). “Romance and Reality”, p.233

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The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.

Richard M. Weaver

Strong, Character, Men

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... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.

Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

Notebook, Beautiful, Lying

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God's solution for "I can't live that way anymore" is basically, "Good! Don't live that way anymore. Set firm limits against evil behavior that are designed to promote change and redemption. Get the love and support you need from other places to take the kind of stance that I do to help redeem relationship. Suffer long, but suffer in the right way." And when done God's way, chances are much better for redemption.

Henry Cloud

Support You, Long, Evil

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Trying to micromanage the perfect vacation is always a disaster. That leads to terrible times. If you get lost and you just end up eating just anywhere, you know, you see a bunch of Venetians sitting around smoking cigarettes, eating something unrecognizable in a dark alley somewhere, chances are it's interesting.

Anthony Bourdain

Dark, Vacation, Perfect

Interview with Joel Keller, www.avclub.com. November 21, 2011.

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If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.

Rob Reiner

Real, Chance, Ifs

"#AOLBUILD Hosts Director Extraordinaire Rob Reiner", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 17, 2014.

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If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.

Arlene Francis

Thinking, Over You, Chance

Arlene Francis (1960). “That Certain Something; the Magic of Charm”

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In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.

Barbara Holland

Eye, Winning, Yawning

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First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

Maria Edgeworth

First Love, Firsts, Merit

Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1824). “Works”, p.216

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Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.

Fran Lebowitz

Style, Chance, Genuine

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When art writing seems incomprehensible, chances are it is.

Walter Darby Bannard

Art, Writing, Chance

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If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

Clayton Christensen

Energy, Needs, Investing Your Time

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Out last chance is a cat's magic sight. We are doomed.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Cat, Sight, Magic

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