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From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.
If I get to be president, what can I do anyway? With Congress and the press, what chance do I have to make basic changes?
The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws.
It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.
The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.
I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.
Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign.
Ten years of character development affords you a lot. You get a chance to dig deeper and deeper and deeper into a person.
It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.
In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
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 !
Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.
If I were hungry and friendless today, I would rather take my chances with a saloon-keeper than with the average preacher.
But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.
As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.
Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.
Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.
Our own opinion of ourselves should be lower than that formed by others, for we have a better chance at our imperfections.
I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.
You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.
If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.
There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.
I live a soldier's life when I'm working. That's how it feels to me, except I've got a slightly greater chance of survival.
One means of sanity is to retain a hold on the natural world, ... Americans still have that chance, more than many peoples.
A complaint is a chance to turn a customer into a lifelong friend. I say that seriously, not as some press release baloney.
A holiday is an opportunity to journey within. It is also a chance to chill, to relax. It is when I switch on my rest mode.
Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.
I had some good opportunities. I was lucky to have had the chance to do things differently. Architecture is about surprise.
If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.
At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.
You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
If you have the chance to realize some of these dreams you had as a kid, and you have the opportunity, why not pursue that?
I love action. I love to move my body. Any chance I have to do that in my youth, I'll definitely jump towards it, for sure.
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.
This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.
Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.
Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.
I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.
I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.
Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.
I was very aware of 'League of Legends' because my brother plays it a lot, but I hadn't gotten the chance to play it before.
Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.
There's a lot that I'd love to do. I haven't had a chance to really show the breadth of my talent, so I look forward to that.