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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

Slaves would be tyrants were the chance theirs.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

Snowpiercer has both [optimistic and pessimistic]. It was essentially optimistic. The most pessimistic was my part, because of his knowledge. He knows how it started. The status quo, he knows, has to be maintained, otherwise there is no chance. He knows that this revolution is completely understandable and is also commendable. He also knows the negatives. In the end, that's not a very positive position to be in.

So afraid of taking chances. How you gonna reach the top?

So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

So many of my relatives didn't get a chance to go to school, and my own Daddy couldn't read or write.

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

Someday I hope you get the chance to live like you were dying.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

Some super-calculating intellect must have designed the properties of the carbon atom, otherwise the chance of my finding such an atom through the blind forces of nature would be utterly minuscule.

Something must be left to chance; nothing is certain in a sea fight

Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.

Sometimes in life, there are no second chances

Sometimes offensive players get turned into defensive players, which sometimes isn't a bad thing, but for me I need a chance to play more offense.

Sometimes it's more generous to take than give, he said. "How?" Caroline asked. "To let the other person give you what he has to offer. If you're always the one giving, you never have to feel disappointed, because you don't expect anything in return. But it's miserly in its own way. Because you never leave yourself open or give the other person a chance.

Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.

Sometimes you have to take a chance and just go with it

So take a chance and don't ever look back.

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!

Sometimes people don't rehearse at all, but you might have had a chance to rehearse for a few days, or even more than that. Then in the moment when the camera's running is the only time it matters. So whatever you've discussed or thought about or discussed with the director, the other actors, hopefully there's a part of the experience that you've left open so that only in that moment the camera catches it. That's of course the hardest thing to do because everything is planned and you have thought about it in advance.

Sometimes we laugh to keep from crying, but the important thing is to laugh, every chance we get.

Sometimes you look at a painting and certain parts are so beautiful. You say, "Wow, this is fantastic," but 10 minutes later you most likely have to kill it. Every painting wants to live. You want to build and bring this type of painting to the climax. When it's at the highest point, you want more. And then if you want more, you might destroy it. So you take a chance.

So this ["Grant MacLaren"] was a chance to sort of go back and do a more leading man. But instead of just solving crimes like a CSI show, this leading man is, like the other travelers, not who he appears.

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

Stay to yourself, just listen. Do more listening than talking. The more you speak the higher the chances you sayin the wrong thing.

Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

Supersonic bionic robot voodoo power Equator ex my chance to flex skills on Ampex

Synchronicities express themselves through chance meetings and natural events as well as in dreams and supernatural episodes.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

Take a chance because you never know how perfect something can turn out.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

Take a (second or third or fourth) chance. Remake the world.

Take a chance on your own abilities clearly, neither exaggerating them nor under-assessing them.

Take a chance! All life is a chance

Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!

Synthesis..., perhaps in greater measure than activities in any other area of organic chemistry, provides a measure of the condition and power of science. For synthetic undertakings are seldom if ever undertaken by chance, nor will the most painstaking, or inspired, purely observational activities suffice. Synthesis must always be carried out by plan.

Take more chances than you dare. You'll make more sales than you expect. That's the formula.

Take the chance. Just believe and things will happen.

Take these chances Place them in a box until a quieter time Lights down, you up and die