Chance Quotes - Page 17

• Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.

  Malcolm Fraser

  Sorry, Fall, Giving

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

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• In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

  Francis Bacon

  Voice, Weight, Break

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Cunning'

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• Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

  Jessamyn West

  Paradise, Fool, Refuse

  Jessamyn West (1957). “To see the dream”

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• Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

  Bobby Scott

  Fighting, Second Chance, Years

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• Give yourself another chance to make your dream a reality. Don't allow a delay to become a denial. Raise the bar on yourself, increase your determination, and explode your drive. You will fail your way to success. Everything you experience can be used to grow through...not just to go through. Make your dream happen! You deserve!

  Les Brown

  Dream, Determination, Reality

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• From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

  Christopher Morley

  Mean, Eye, Literature

  Christopher Morley (1920). “Travels in Philadelphia”

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• It is certainly not then-not in dreams- but when one is wide awake, at moments of robust joy and achievement, on the highest terrace of consciousness, that mortality has a chance to peer beyond its own limits, from the mast, from the past and its castle tower. And although nothing much can be seen through the mist, there is somehow the blissful feeling that one is looking in the right direction.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Dream, Truth, Past

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.

  Ai Weiwei

  Exercise, People, Quality

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Financing films that are demanding is a task, in itself. Because people are so afraid of taking any kind of chance, because they're afraid the audience isn't going to respond. But the audience is so hungry for anything that's a bit original, personal, or different.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  People, Different, Tasks

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I've done films about games. What I like with games is that there is this uncertain outcome and the element of chance.

  Jørgen Leth

  Games, Elements, Done

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.

  Ruth Simmons

  Roots, Innovation, Working Together

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• The only people that really have a chance against Serena [Williams] are people that are strong, that can handle her power that move well, and that's a difficult combination.

  Martina Navratilova

  Strong, Moving, People

  Source: www.laureus.com

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• Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

  Carrie Fisher

  Actors, Yeah, Wanted

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. September 13, 2011.

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• If I didn't even stand a chance of winning races and competing for the title, I don't think I would be that interested in continuing my career.

  Michael Schumacher

  Winning, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I love action. I love to move my body. Any chance I have to do that in my youth, I'll definitely jump towards it, for sure.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Moving, Body, Action

  Source: collider.com

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• When I grew up, shame was used as a tool for check and balance. If you stood a chance of hearing someone say, "Shame on you," or "You should be ashamed of yourself," you thought twice. It doesn't seem to be a factor today.

  Robert Redford

  Balance, Tools, Today

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Giving homeless children the chance to be educated, giving them this ticket to their futures, is so wonderful. They will have the chance to not repeat the suffering of their childhoods in their own families. They can build secure and safe lives for themselves and their children.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Giving, Childhood

  "A Conversation With Laura Bush: “Education Is The Key”". Interview with Kevin M. Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 28, 2012.

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• Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

  Corita Kent

  Take A Chance, Mankind, Stills

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• ... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.

  Charles Darwin

  Strong, Struggle, Principles

  Charles Darwin, Paul H. Barrett (1987). “The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959”

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• If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

  Edmund Hillary

  Achievement, Groups, Looks

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• Fate does not jest and events are not a matter of chance. There is no existence out of nothing.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  Fate, Events, Doe

  Robert St. John, Gamal Abdel Nasser (1960). “The boss: the story of Gamal Abdel Nasser”

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• Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!

  Fay Weldon

  Believe, Destiny, Men

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• What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice. ... All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! ... Your interference is doing him positive injury.

  Frederick Douglass

  Giving, Justice, Legs

  Frederick Douglass (2016). “The Essential Douglass: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.196, Hackett Publishing

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• Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.

  Peter Steinhart

  Wind, Plant

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• The events of September 11 would have been impossible if there were no airport security system at all. If average Americans were allowed to carry their personal firearms on board our aircraft ..., the chances that several passengers on each flight would have been armed-and thus able to shoot the hijackers, preventing the Trade Center and Pentagon hits-would have been quite substantial.

  Vin Suprynowicz

  Security Systems, Average, Airports

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