Chance

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  • Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets. (Lethbridge-Stewart in 'Dr. Who')
        Unknown   Best?
  • In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
        Edward P. Tryon   Best?
  • If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.
        Dan Quayle   Best?
  • Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
        Edgar Bergen   Best?
  • Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save.
        Will Rogers   Best?
  • I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
  • Judge not by one go...nor by two; travel many times around a stone to see the gem.
        Lionslove   Best?
  • Words spoken does not a feeling make. Nor actions done in anger, nor the aftermath of one's mistake.
        Nadia Key   Best?
  • Life is something that everyone should try at least once.
        Henry J. Tillman   Best?
  • Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared.
        Isaac Newton   Best?
  • Most people receive very little training on how to live effectively and harmoniously with themselves and others. This I believe is an unfortunate outcome of our parenting beliefs and methods, as well as society's educational systems. It seems to me these beliefs and systems empathize academic and vocational skills and place little or no emphasis or value on providing a person with the essential skills to live a life of personal fulfillment, contribution and self actualization. I believe it would be a safe assumption that the great majority of people work at jobs in which they find very little personal satisfaction. Without proper training on how to make wise choices in one's life, the chances are very slim anyone will make them.
        Sidney Madwed   Best?
  • The Wiseman said we using 1% of our brains in our life including him, but I say that percentage is also from the human brain. Who knows the truth? Yes! We are not perfect.
        Nkosana   Best?
  • True success can be tasted when you stop trying to outdo others, and instead, outdo yourself
        James Madden   Best?
  • Don't be a boob, be a nipple because nipples know where to point and gravity doesn't take it's toll.
        Andrew Mullins   Best?
  • You will always find [hatred] strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe   Best?
  • The changes in the human condition are uncertain and frequent. Many, on whom fortune has bestowed her favours, may trace their family to a more unprosperous station; and many who are now in obscurity, may look back upon the affluence and exalted rank of their ancestors.
        Alexander Hamilton   Best?
  • To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
        Alfred Lord Tennyson   Best?
  • The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goes down to that which is not world but is the Mystery of the Ground of Being.
        Paul Tillich   Best?
  • Being an actor is easy, just picture someone in a room and you outside waiting for your cue to go in. Elliot Gould's been trying that for forty years.
        George Burns   Best?
  • What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange misture of blood, which you will find in no other country. I could point out to you a family whose grandfather was an englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a french woman, and whose present four sons have now four wives of different nations. He is an American.
        Michel-Guillaume Jean de Creve   Best?
  • If you ever get a chance to buy a baseball team, do so. It's very fun.
        Ted Turner   Best?
  • Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. 'Immortality' may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.
        G. H. Hardy   Best?
  • Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.
        Ernest Hemingway   Best?
  • We judge the future by the past. Achieving success is one's ability to look at yesterday, cease today and capture tomorrow's opportunity.
        Gregory Kerber   Best?
  • Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual.
        Viktor E. Frankl   Best?
  • Diligence is the mother of good luck.
        Proverb   Best?
  • An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
        Henry Clay   Best?
  • Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.
        Charles Dickens   Best?
  • A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.
        Stephane Mallarme   Best?
  • A lot of people approach risk as if it's the enemy when it's really fortune's accomplice.
        Sting   Best?
  • A great obstacle to happiness is the expectation of too great a happiness.
        Fontenelle   Best?
  • We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.
        Arnold Toynbee   Best?
  • No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
        Jascha Heifetz   Best?
  • Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
        G. K. Chesterton   Best?
  • Doctors are not servants of their patients, they are traders like everyone else in a free society and they should bear that title proudly considering the crucial importance of the services they offer.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
  • A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
        Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
  • Dont get married, just find someone you dont like and buy them a house.
        Sydney James   Best?
  • Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere possibility of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise.
        Lewis Thomas   Best?
  • Luck is the residue of design.
        Branch Rickey   Best?

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