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No writer can be fully convicted of imitation except there is a concurrence of more resemblance than can be imagined to have happened by chance; as where the same ideas are conjoined without any natural series or necessary coherence, or where not only the thought but the words are copied.

Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

Nutrition can make or break you on race day. It's not something you leave to chance. If you don't plan for it you're almost guaranteed to bonk.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

Obviously there are going to be a lot of skeptics. I only hope I can prove them wrong and give the idea of model-slash-anything a genuine chance.

Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.

Of Belief Human mathematics, so to speak, like the length of life, are subject to the doctrine of chances.

Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.

Often we don't have a good notion of what our talents are, because we have never had a chance to try them out.

Oh, I'll enjoy myself. I want to make sure you enjoy yourself." "Why?" I said. "If you enjoy yourself, then there's a better chance you'll want to be with me again.

Oh my God, no, no chance, no chance. That [kissing her co-stars]s not in my contract!

Once you become a good person, then you have a chance of becoming a good basketball player.

Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!

One can become quite used to the specter of the eternal Footman, like some lethal old bore lurking in the hallway at the end of the evening, hoping for the chance to have a word. And I don't so much object to his holding my coat in that marked manner, as if mutely reminding me that it's time to be on my way. No, it's the snickering that gets me down.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.

One nice thing about telling a clean joke is there's a good chance no one's heard it before.

One of the things that makes the uncertainty of death so difficult for us is that we could be involved in a project and then, suddenly, it's cut off. And it's cut off in the midst of our involvement, so that we don't have a chance to see it through, to accomplish what we might accomplish.

One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.

One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

One of my favorite guys was Ronnie Lott. I had and have such tremendous respect for him that when I finally got a chance to coach him, I couldn't get enough of uncovering and understanding what made him tick and what made him be who he was.

One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.

One of the things I say is I don't think any of us should be average. Everybody's got a gift. The chance of finding your gift and then sharing it. There's just no room in this world to be average, you need to be the best you can be.

One of the things I've learned in my life is that sometimes you've got to take a chance.

On Mother's Day: It's just a rip-off, to tell the truth, a chance to sell my perfume and other things that ladies like.

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.

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

Only when you’re willing to take 100 percent responsibility for making the relationship work will it work. Otherwise, a relationship left to chance will always be vulnerable to disaster.

Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

Our first thought is always for those on life's first rung, and how we might increase their chances of climbing.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

Our chances are always pretty good

Optimism is a duty. The future is open. It is not predetermined. No one can predict it, except by chance. We all contribute to determining it by what we do. We are all equally responsible for its success.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

Our relatives are ours by chance, but we can choose our friends.

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

Our wisdom and deliberation for the most part follow the lead of chance.

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.

Our studies will be forever, in a very great degree, under the direction of chance; like travelers, we must take what we can get, and when we can get it - whether it is or is not administered to us in the most commodious manner, in the most proper place, or at the exact minute when we would wish to have it.

Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.