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" Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent. "

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" How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell. "

" The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck. "

" Colorful garments - ball gowns, kimonos, evening pajamas - made from yards upon yards of iridescent silk or velvet. I own an unjustifiable number of such outfits and jump at the chance to wear them. Against the etiquette about which I am otherwise all too conscious, I frequently, and unrepentantly, overdress for the occasion. "

" I'm an actor and I've created a lasting and memorable character named Frasier, who is not me, but who most people think is. So when I have a chance to play something that's different, I embrace it because it's fun; also in this case, he's a memorable character. "

" 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. "

" Well, painting is the one thing I do, that is just me. It's me and easels, and the pencils. And as long as I don't drool too much over the canvas, the colors come out pretty good. And it's a chance to express all that I've got inside, that I sometimes keep hidden. And I think that's why I paint big broad, wide open landscapes. "

Joni Eareckson Tada

" The greatest pleasure of life is love. "

" I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It's the ultimate gift of life, and I'm the one who was on the other end. "

" Silence is true wisdom's best reply. "

" When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and eat before you cook. So when I finish work, the first thing I'll do, and especially when I'm in New York, I'll go for a run. And I'll run 10 or 15k on my - and I run to gain my appetite. "

" Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice. "

Trevor Brooking

" Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, every minute a chance to change the world. "

" I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough. "

Condoleezza Rice

" I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out. "

" Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about. "

John Polkinghorne

" I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances. "

" We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance. "

" The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle. "

Alexis de Tocqueville

" I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus. "

" I am going to take something I learned over in Israel. Their Independence Day is preceded the 24 hours before with Memorial Day, so it gives them a chance to serve and reflect and then celebrate. I am going to try to start that tradition here in America. "

" Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing. "

Honore de Balzac

" Better a serpent than a stepmother! "

" Buy the ticket, take the ride. "

Hunter S. Thompson

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" I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win. "

" To have been the first woman premier of Victoria was not only a great opportunity but also a great chance to say to the young women of Victoria - Liberal or Labor - 'You can do it, too.' "

" Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards. "

" I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know. "