... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
What is called chance is the instrument of Providence and the secret agent that counteracts what men call wisdom, and preserves order… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius. — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent. — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
If a superior woman marry a vulgar or inferior man, he makes her miserable, but seldom governs her mind or vulgarizes her… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
It is incredible that only idiots are absolutely sure of salvation. It is incredible that the more brain you have the less… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Hunting after happiness is like hunting after a lost sheep in the wilderness--when you find it, the chances are that it is… — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
I sense a kind of fear of writing black or Asian characters from non-ethnic writers, who perhaps feel that they don't know… — Sanjeev Bhaskar Copy Share Image
Dying without actually fully living, without waking up to our lives while we have the chance, is an ongoing and significant risk. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
If we're not actively making things better, chances are we're making them worse. — William Westney Copy Share Image
First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a… — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Personal branding is about managing your name - even if you don't own a business - in a world of misinformation, disinformation,… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
A chance is what you take before you think about it. A calculated risk is what you take after you have evaluated… — Craig Elliott Copy Share Image
Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing. Chances are, if you… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
The actors I was most impressed with and who were influencing my taste were all movie actors, so I always wanted to… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. — Cynthia Heimel Copy Share Image
It is hard to explain to people now how hard it was being a punk back then [the 1970s]. If you had… — John Roecker Copy Share Image
The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we… — Emile Borel Copy Share Image
The lurking tragedy: The chances are that an accident will some day happen to you at a friend's dinner table ... As… — Mary Elizabeth Clark Copy Share Image
The principle of [divine] purpose... stares the biologist in the face wherever he looks... The probability for such an event as the… — Ernst Boris Chain Copy Share Image