Chance Quotes - Page 18

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

  Peter Steinhart

  Wind, Plant

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• History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one or that one to be opened for us, but through every gate are a thousand more. We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us.

  Alexander Herzen

  Needs, Way, Moments

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• Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.

  Al Gore

  Summer, Years, Ice

  "A Generational Challenge to Repower America" by Al Gore, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 25, 2008.

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• Function is a fantasy...the form of designed things is decided by choice or else by chance; but it is never actually entailed by anything whatever.

  David Pye

  Choices, Fantasy, Form

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• Think of the funniest story from your life. Chances are, it was something awful at the time.

  Gina Barreca

  Thinking, Stories, Awful

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• I never had the chance to decide; I was drafted to serve my nation. While I received a deferment to attend school, I ultimately served in the United States Army in the years following the Korean conflict.

  Don Young

  School, Army, Years

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• You only get one shot at a second chance.

  Michael Vick

  Second Chance, Shots

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• Inclined to peace by his temper and situation, it was easy for [Augustus] to discover that Rome, in her present exalted situation, had much less to hope than to fear from the chance of arms; and that, in the prosecution of remote wars, the undertaking became every day more difficult, the event more doubtful, and the possession more precarious and less beneficial.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, Rome, Events

  Edward Gibbon, Francis Parkman, William H. Prescott, Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “The Modern Library Essential World History 4-Book Bundle: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Abridged); Montcalm and Wolfe; History of the Conquest of Mexico; The Naval War of 1812”, p.59, Modern Library

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• Success is not an accident. It is the result of your attitude and your attitude is a choice. Hence sucess is a matter of choice and not chance.

  Shiv Khera

  Attitude, Choices, Sucess

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• Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

  William J. Bernstein

  School, Doctors, Might

  William J. Bernstein (2009). “The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between”, p.135, John Wiley & Sons

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• Kids who drink alcohol, fairly regularly before they're 14 have a 48% chance... of becoming alcoholics.

  Mariska Hargitay

  Kids, Alcohol, Becoming

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There's a thing called game, and when you're out and you're trying to push up on a female and you're going, "Yo, I want to be your knight in shining armor," chances are you're going to get a drink on your face.

  Shemar Moore

  Games, Knights, Shining

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

  Merle Haggard

  Weed, Waiting, Lays

  "A Q&A With Merle Haggard". Billboard Interview, www.billboard.com. March 24, 2005.

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• Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go.

  Henry Winkler

  Giving, Needs, Irony

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary sometimes. I had to say to myself: "Chances are, you're not going to be mauled by a bear."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Hands, Brave, Scary

  "'Wild’s' Cheryl Strayed Becomes One With Reese Witherspoon". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. November 2014.

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• Would you like to go to a doctor who had taken his last medical course in 1948? You have to keep changing and keep learning so that you are constantly challenging yourself, adding a few new songs to your program every chance you get. If you don't, the world will pass you by.

  Harvey Mackay

  Song, Taken, Doctors

  Harvey Mackay (1996). “Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive: Outsell, Outmanage, Outmotivate, & Outnegotiate Your Competition”, Ballantine Books

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• To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.

  Walt Disney

  Crazy, Mistake, People

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• What you want to acquire, you should dare to acquire by any means. What you want to see, even though it is with difficulty, you should see. You should not let it pass, thinking there will be another chance to see it or acquire it. It is quite unusual to have a second chance to materialize your desire.

  Yosa Buson

  Mean, Thinking, Second Chance

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• One can't found a novel theology on Nothing, and nothing is so secure a foundation as a contradiction. Look at the great successes of the past--they say their deities are the masters of all the universes, and yet that they require grandmothers to defend them, as if they were children frightened by poultry. Or that the authority that punishes no one while there exists a chance for reformation will punish everyone when there is no possibility anyone will become the better for it.

  Gene Wolfe

  Children, Grandmother, Past

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

  Martin Amis

  Perfect, Elbows, Way

  "Martin Amis, The Art of Fiction No. 151". Interview with Francesca Riviere, www.theparisreview.org. 1998.

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• I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

  Hilary Mantel

  Novelists, Historian

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• Investors frequently benefit from making decisions with less than perfect knowledge and are well rewarded for bearing the risk of uncertainty. The time other investors spend delving into the last unanswered detail may cost them the chance to buy into situations at prices so low they offer a margin of safety despite the incomplete information

  Seth Klarman

  Safety, Perfect, Decision

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• Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Risk, Dying, Wake Up

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Coming to Our Senses: Healing Ourselves and the World Through Mindfulness”, p.19, Hachette UK

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• The first chance you have to avoid a loss from a foolish loan is by refusing to make it; there is no second chance.

  Charlie Munger

  Loss, Second Chance, Firsts

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• I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

  Fred Perry

  Giving, Opponents, Wimbledon

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