Chance Quotes - Page 22

• Choices not chance determine your destiny.

  Barbara Johnson

  Destiny, Choices, Determine

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• When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

  Michael Clarke Duncan

  Trying, Theater, Checks

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• Everybody ought to be given a chance to do whatever they want, but be responsible for their own actions.

  Monty Roberts

  Want, Action, Responsible

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• If I had a chance to do things over again, I might not start singing. It was my husband Doolittle's idea. He pushed me out there, the booger. And I'm out there now, so I might as well make the best of it.

  Loretta Lynn

  Husband, Ideas, Singing

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• If freedom were not so economically efficient it certainly wouldn't stand a chance.

  Milton Friedman

  Efficient, Ifs

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• Lack of self-confidence is, more often than not, simple laziness. We feel confused and uncertain because we do not know. But instead of making the effort to investigate, we procrastinate and worry. We tell ourselves we can't instead of learning how we can. If we used the mental energy we expend in worry and fear to get out and find out about what we do not know, we would see our self-confidence grow. Lack of self-confidence is not overcome by faith, but by action. It is a lack, not of certainty, but of effort. Too often we are certain that we can't before we give ourselves a fair chance.

  Laurence Boldt

  Confused, Self Confidence, Simple

  Laurence G. Boldt (1999). “Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Design”, p.941, Penguin

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• To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

  Gerard Houllier

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Rick Tocchet is what I call a warrior. He really brings a lot to a team because he really believes in team play. He's tough on himself and he's tough on the team. As a coach, if you had even one guy like him on your team, you'd have a heckuva chance to do your job well.

  Scotty Bowman

  Jobs, Team, Believe

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• Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Second Chance, Past, People

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• That all war is physically frightful is obvious; but if that were a moral verdict, there would be no difference between a torturer and a surgeon. There are certain intellectuals who are too bright to be content with merely praising peace but who are infuriated by anybody praising war. If no war is possible, all criminality has its chance

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  War, Differences, Would Be

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• The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

  Paul Watson

  Fishing, Would Be, Fisherman

  "Sea Shepherd: how we sank the Japanese whaling fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

  Monica Furlong

  Done, Confession, Good Things

  Monica Furlong (1982). “Christian Uncertainties”

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• Every time a resolve or a fine glow of feeling evaporates without bearing practical fruit is worse than a chance lost; it works to hinder future resolutions and emotions from taking the normal path of discharge. There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless sentimentalist and dreamer, who spends his life in a weltering sea of sensibility and emotion, but who never does a manly concrete deed.

  William James

  Character, Sea, Feelings

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.125, Courier Corporation

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• So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance.

  Douglas Adams

  Islands, Would Be, Als

  Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.184, Ballantine Books

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• A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Kings, President, Prime

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are...

  Oprah Winfrey

  Strong, Moving, Trials

  "Snuggling up with Martha, Oprah and Dick" by Laurel Wellman, www.sfgate.com. November 1, 2001.

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• You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.

  Billy Packer

  Rebound

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• I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead), but there was a view among the student writers I knew at that time that good writing came spontaneously, in an uprush of feeling that had to be caught at once; when you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

  Stephen King

  Home, Writing, Views

  "On Writing". Book by Stephen King, 1999.

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• I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

  Adam Gopnik

  Regret, Joy, Missing

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• I played softball at George Washington University and then I played professionally for the Mid-Michigan Ice. I had a couple of tryouts with the US Olympic Team but I don't know if I have a word to describe how bad one of the tryouts was. It was the worst tryout in the history of tryouts. It was that bad. So I totally bombed it and thought my chances of being an Olympian were over.

  Elana Meyers

  Softball, Couple, Team

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.

  John Nettles

  Block, Giving, Wife

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• You can leave a kid alone and it will learn to fend for itself, how to work the remote, a tin opener, and the microwave. I see the holidays as a chance for kids to learn self-sufficiency.

  Al Murray

  Holiday, Kids, Self

  Source: www.mirror.co.uk

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• Well I liked the mixture actually. It's really good fun to have throughout a shoot to move from something which is quite character based in certain scenes where there's very little action and you're just working with actors and I suppose I've had quite a lot of practice at that. This is more action than I've had a chance to do so that was fun for me too to go into the action then and have some really good crew working with me. And sometimes you get these scenes where they blend.

  Oliver Parker

  Fun, Moving, Character

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I just love to sing, so like my dad's advice when I was younger - anytime you get a chance to sing, just go out there and do it! I truly just love the actual singing.

  Lauren Hart

  Dad, Advice, Singing

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

  Caroline Dries

  Character, Thinking, College

  Source: collider.com

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