Chances Are Quotes - Page 13

• Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is a skeleton.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Hunting, Skeletons

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• A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Luck, Chance, Constant

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• If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her nature; and if there be love on his side, the chances are that in the end she will elevate and refine him.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Men, Mind, Sides

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.93

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• A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.

  Hermann Bondi

  Trying, Chance, Moments

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• ...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Death, Light, Darkness

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• If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Racist, Chance, Journalist

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I know chances are if I don't give an interview or make a public appearance or statement from time to time, they'll invent one. Every so often, I suppose people ask, 'Whatever happened to that other Beatle, George Harrison?' And someone comes around with a ready answer, no matter how preposterous it seems. It's possibly the worst price one has to pay for what they call stardom.

  George Harrison

  People, Giving, Answers

  Source: friarparksoulclub.tumblr.com

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• Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know.

  Michio Kaku

  Stars, Light, Self

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

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• The only reason free markets have a ghost of a chance is that they are so much more efficient than any other form of organization.

  Milton Friedman

  Organization, Chance, Ghost

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I love gaming, I'm actually more of a nerd than a metal head and if you see me at shows chances are I'm by our merch table playing league of legends on my laptop or playing super Nintendo or Playstation through an emulator. My Nintendo pretty much raised me.

  Mike Powell

  League, Nerd, Nintendo

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• When your goal is to build people up, to make them feel better, to share in their joy, you too reap the rewards of their positive feelings. The next time you have the chance to correct someone, even if their facts are a little off, resist the temptation. Instead, ask yourself, "What do I really want out of this interaction?" Chances are, what you want is a peaceful interaction where all parties leave feeling good. Each time you resist 'being right,' and instead choose kindness, you'll notice a peaceful feeling within.

  Richard Carlson

  Kindness, Self Esteem, Party

  Richard Carlson (1998). “Don't Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.

  Thomas Watson

  Inspirational, Educational, Chance

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• If I had to predict, the way things are going, I'd say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.

  Ted Turner

  Mean, Mass Destruction, Years

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• Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

  Scott Adams

  Needs, Needing Someone, Firsts

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• Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.

  Menander

  Chance, Kind, Preserves

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• Chance is another name that we give to our mistakes. And all of the best things in my films are mistakes.

  Robert Altman

  Mistake, Names, Giving

  "Still up to mischief" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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• When you're a pilot, and you know all the ways to survive an airplane crash and how low the chances are, you feel safer.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Airplane, Pilots, Way

  Interview with Scott Z. Burns, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 17, 2014.

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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, Chance, Yeah

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.

  Robert Towne

  Running, Team, Needs

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• In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.

  Lyudmila Alexeyeva

  Zero, Russia, Political

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• ...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

  Eric Hoffer

  Chance, Ability

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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