Chancy Quotes

16 quotes by 14 authors

Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the… — Audre Lorde
In order to look special wearing the chancy unique; it must be worn with your persona, and if the two don't blend, then the look… — David Bowie
The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing… — Dennis Holme Robertson
America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration… — Samuel Eliot Morison
Carryin' a gun is a chancy thing. Sooner or later a man is put in a position to use it. And a body has to… — Louis L'Amour
Between the two poles of whole-truth and half-truth is slung the chancy hammock in which we all rock. — Shana Alexander
The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves — Robert A. Dahl
The writing of poetry is a chancy business, it's currency solitude and loss, its tools coffee and too much wine, its hours midnight, dawn, and… — Keith Miller
I think the executives at the studios today realize that it's easier and safer to go the - to some known territory which is a… — Richard D. Zanuck
Immortality is a chancy thing; it cannot be promised or earned. Perhaps it cannot even be identified for what it is. — Gregory Maguire
Guns are always the best method for a private suicide. They are more stylish looking than single-edged razor blades and natural gas has got so… — P.J. O'Rourke
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive. — Chris Bohjalian
I live in the present because the future is always chancy. When it comes to being with you, I'm willing to take the risk. — Cinda Williams Chima

Who Wrote These Chancy Quotes

14 authors contributed a total of 16 Chancy Quotes as follows: