Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
- Jacques Delille
Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille
Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
- Edgar Bergen
It's just random chance, baby; get used to it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance,
but with somebody else.
- Mae West
A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action.
A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.
- Neale Donald Walsch
He who trusts all things to chance,
makes a lottery of his life
- Proverb
Take a chance! All life is a chance.
The man who goes farthest is generally
the one who is willing to do and dare.
- Dale Carnegie
The history of free men is never really written by chance
but by choice; their choice!
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
The people are the foundation of the nation.
Our only chance for a lasting peace on earth:
the release of the strength of the common man.
- Jimmy Yen
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer
is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
- Theodore Roosevelt
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
- John Lennon
When you are in any contest,
you should work as if there were -
to the very last minute - a chance to lose it.
This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Destiny is not a matter of chance,
It is a matter of choice.
It is not something to be waited for,
But rather something to be achieved.
- William Jennings Bryan
Read the best books first,
or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
- Henry David Thoreau
If there is anything that a man can do well,
I say let him do it. Give him a chance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
- Oprah Winfrey
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe.
All is system and gradation.
Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
- Abraham Lincoln
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
- Albert Camus
Whatever your work and whatever its worth,
No matter how strong or clever,
Some one will sneer if you pause to hear,
And scoff at your best endeavor.
For the target art has a broad expanse,
And wherever you chance to hit it,
Though close be your aim to the bull's-eye fame,
There are those who will never admit it.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
When all you know is bombs,
everything looks like a target.
Give peace and diplomacy a chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a rock star, I have two instincts,
I want to have fun, and I want to change the world.
I have a chance to do both.
- Bono
A discussion of philosophy is like a cat chasing its tail -
it may be an amusing diversion but
it has no chance for a satisfying conclusion.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life
in which chance has placed us,
but is always the result of a good conscience,
good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.
- Thomas Jefferson
Never stop dreaming your inspired future.
Believing in your dreams is only the first step,
but unless you have a dream that you believe in,
you are leaving your future to random chance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We should not let our response to
the people who disagree with us
be dictated by what they say about us
or even how they treat people we care for.
There has to be a chance that we can find love.
- William J. Clinton
If by chance some day you're not feeling well
and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done
and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart,
then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
- Red Skelton
Not chance of birth or place has made us friends,
Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations,
But the endeavor for the selfsame ends,
With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do real life people actually fall in love
with the idea of being in love?
Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.
Someone wants desperately to have
the husband or wife of their dreams.
They visualize the vine-covered cottage
with the white picket fence.
They choose the colors for the nursery.
They design all the aspects of their married life.
A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
For as long as I can remember, I've been searching for something,
some reason why we're here. What are we doing here? Who are we?
If this is a chance to find out
even just a little part of that answer...
I don't know, I think it's worth a human life. Don't you?
- the Jodie Foster movie Contact (1997)
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious
as to have friends at a distance;
they make the latitudes and the longitudes.
- Henry David Thoreau
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every spirit makes its house,
and we can give a shrewd guess
from the house to the inhabitant.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.
- Will Rogers
Smile, it makes people wonder what you are thinking.
- Anonymous
Common looking people are the best in the world:
that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
- Charlotte Bronte
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
- Proverb
Fear makes strangers of people
who would otherwise be friends.
- Shirley MacLaine
Moving on is simple, it's what you leave behind
that makes it so difficult.
- Anonymous
Don't ask yourself what the world needs;
ask yourself what makes you come alive.
And then go and do that.
Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
- Howard Thurman
Life is short,
Break the Rules.
Forgive quickly,
Kiss SLOWLY.
Love truly.
Laugh uncontrollably
And never regret
ANYTHING
That makes you smile
- Mark Twain
Who never walks save where he sees
men's tracks, makes no discoveries.
- J. G. Holland
Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.
- Paul Tournier
I will act as if what I do makes a difference.
- William James
Hunger makes a thief of any man.
- Pearl S. Buck
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
Life is a series of experiences,
each one of which makes us bigger,
even though sometimes it is hard to realize this.
- Henry Ford
Love doesn't make the world go 'round,
Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.
- Franklin P. Jones
Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
Practice does not make perfect,
perfect practice makes perfect.
- Vince Lombardi
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love makes the world go 'round
- an old anonymous proverb,
made popular by the 1958 and 1961 songs
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln
An optimist is one who makes the best
of what he gets the worst of.
- Anonymous
Practice makes perfect.
- Anonymous
Know that the act of smiling makes both you and others happier.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
- William Shakespeare
It is far more important to be able to hit the target
than it is to haggle over who makes a weapon or who pulls a trigger.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Appreciation is a wonderful thing.
It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.
- Voltaire
Anxiety is love's greatest killer.
It makes one feel as you might
when a drowning man holds unto you.
You want to save him, but you know
he will strangle you with his panic.
- Anais Nin
Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain.
To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.
- Carlos Castaneda
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