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Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

Now he looked at the classic parked on the street and admitted, “I bought it soon after we met. I… had hoped someday I might have this chance.” I pointed to the Galaxie. “You can’t possibly have felt like that for me then!” He turned to gaze into my eyes, laying his chin on my shoulder as he said softly, “I have loved you with everything in me from the moment I saw you.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

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.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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.

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 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.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

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.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Never again will we have this good a chance as we now have to find an enduring place for ourselves within the natural systems that keep us alive. It's a sweet spot in history. That's why this is such a critical time.