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When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

When you start to confuse Freddie Mac, Sallie Mae and Fannie Mae with members of your family, and you remember 2,000 stock symbols but forget the children's birthdays, there's a good chance you've become too wrapped up in your work.

When you've got a solid commitment and solid objectives, you've got a much better chance of reaching your goal.

When you usually are not ready to chance the standard you'll need to settle for the standard.

Where a generation ago people felt entitled to a chance at education, they now feel entitled to the credential affirming that they have completed a course of study regardless of their actual mastery.

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset.

Where a chunk of business is simple, the chances are that it is.

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

Where do you go to get permission to make a dent in the Universe ? If you think there's a chance you can make a dent, go !

Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.

While you see a chance take it, find romance, fake it, because it's all on you.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

Who is Dr. A. von Holstein? And is he related, by chance, to a race of cows?

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

Who is the person in my life for whom my presence allowing them to have a true second chance, allowing them to have an authentic relationship, who is the person for whom if I do that, their life can be changed for the better? That's something we can do right now with the people right next to us.

Who wanted to creep along in comfort when there was one chance in a thousand of flying?

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Why didn’t you tell me there was danger? Why didn’t you warn me? Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these tricks; but I never had the chance of discovering in that way; and you did not help me!

Why had I been so afraid? I had not loved enough. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta...I had had all my time, all my chances. I could never do it again, never make it right. I had not loved enough...I had not passed up all my chances to give love or receive it, and I had the future, at least, to try to do better.

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Why? Why did you do this to me?" "He's going to come after me. He won't just kill me. He'll go after you, too." "That's right, He can't take the chance. I didn't tell you about it...why?" He repeated on a sob? "Why did you-" You wouldn't take me to New York" His mouth dropped open "NEW YORK?" he shouted. "You did all this because I wouldn't take, you to New York!

Wij wezen allles wat kopie of beschrijving was af en lieten het elementaire en het spontane in volle vrijheid reageren. Omdat de plaatsing van de vlakken en de kleuren en de verhoudingen van deze vlakken louter op toeval schenen te berusten, verklaarde ik dat deze werken, zoals in de natuur, gerangschikt waren "volgens de wetten van het toeval", toeval dat voor mij alleen maar een beperkt onderdeel vormde van een onpeilbare reden van bestaan, van een orde die in zijn totaliteit ontoegankelijk was.

Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

With writing, we have second chances.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?

Yes." His gaze grew distant. "If I'd have the chance, if my position permitted, I would have pleaded with her not to accept the mission because of the danger, and because I couldn't bear the thought of..." "Of losing her?

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

You can bet - a good chance of Hillary [Clinton], a good chance of [Donald] Trump - but not 100% in either case.