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concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.
Statistically, you don't have much chance of becoming president if you're not tall and fairly handsome or at least conventional-looking.
When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.
I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
All my life I've believed that men and women have equal capacities and talents...consequently there should be equality in life's chances.
Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we call life.
Down syndrome kids can learn. Like Corky. That's the way I feel about it... For those kids who have Down syndrome, to give them a chance.
If you get your body right, you get your mind right, whatever you do, you have a fighting chance, and you have a chance to be victorious.
Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.
Bon chance, mon ami," Dante called softly. Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad.
If your therapist asks if you have a quarter, then politely tells you to call someone who cares ... there's a good chance you're whining!
As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.
If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.
It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.
The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.
I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.
When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance of catching someone's interest.
Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.
But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.
It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.
I'm not afraid of taking big shots and things like that. It's a 50-50 chance. It might go in, it might not, but I'm not scared to take it.
I welcome every chance I get to interact with fans. I've made some very close friendships amongst fans, and I look forward to seeing them.
if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim
If you can qualify on the pole or in the front, you have a better chance of getting five points for leading a lap or leading the most laps.
The cool thing about being best friends is that you can make big plans even if there's only a slim chance in hell that they'll ever happen.
Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
Whether it's eight o'clock in the morning or eight o'clock at night, I always try to greet others before they have a chance to speak to me.
I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.
The more you hesitate in a game, the more your chance of getting hit. Your focus isn't there. When you hesitate, usually you're in trouble.
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
If we continue to stay focused on our mission and not get sidetracked with everything else we stand a chance at really changing this world.
A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.
Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.
I'm not too proud of the movies I made as a grownup except for 'That Hagen Girl', which nobody remembers but which gave me a chance to act.
If I get another chance to star in Hollywood movies in the future, I am going to do my best to proudly show the best of Henry to the world.
If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.
Cute. I'm on the waitlist to beta a new product, and have been offered the chance to move up in the list if I tweet about it. Not doing so.
I have had it all over the years, being told I'm not good enough. So whenever the chance comes I always try and prove I should be starting.
A very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.
This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.
Festivals are great because you get to just walk around the corner and see a new band that you've heard but not had the chance to check out.
Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.
I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing.