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I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.
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.
Every hundred year, mother make baby like Iron Sheik, Michael Jordan and the Jesus. Only one chance to prove you are the real in a lifetime.
Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.
It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.
I don't bowl at 140 kmph or 150 kmph, so my best chance of getting the batsmen out is by bowling in the right areas and getting it to swing.
The actors I admire, like Ben Kingsley or Daniel Day-Lewis, they totally reinvent themselves in every part. I hope I get a chance to do that.
Great customer service does not come by chance. It is the result of training and ensuring there are enough assistants to serve the customers.
Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.
If I'm not working and getting my makeup done, that's my chance to do a hair mask and a face mask and my plucking and waxing and all of that.
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
If you're hooked on the physical act of writing, there's a good chance of your hanging in there long enough to say what you were born to say.
The sooner you cut off negotiations with someone you shouldn't be dealing with, it gives you the chance to move on to a more profitable deal.
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
In a game, you never know what chance you're going to get, so I try and cover all bases and make sure I'm ready for that chance when it comes.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
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.
No foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
I like what the internet offers: the ability to get people interested in your mind, and have a chance if you're not conventionally attractive.
What I cannot follow are the manic-depressive fluctuations from total control to no control, from the serialization of all elements to chance.
To me, it is clear that we exist in a plan which is governed by rules that were created, shaped by a universal intelligence and not by chance.
I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.
A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.
Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.
John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish Id had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.
The longer you spend your time worrying about all the negative things in your life, the further you push any chance of retrieving the positive.
Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.
I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.
I never sympathise with the accused unless there's a chance the accused is not guilty, but I certainly don't ever sympathise with the criminal.
The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can
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.
My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.
It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.
I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.
As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.
More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.
I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
That which is always within our reach, is always the last thing we take; and the chances are, that what we can do every day, we never do at all.
Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.
Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.
Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.
I discovered, though, that once having given a pig an enema there is no turning back, no chance of resuming one of life's more stereotyped roles.
Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.