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

Our chances are always pretty good

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

Our lives improve only when we take chances.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

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.

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

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

People don't cheat by chance, they cheat by choice.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.

Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.

Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this. At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?

Please let me go." "Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.

Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.

Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.