Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.
Chance does not work. Only choice will work. Your choice!
When you approach your baby with an attitude of respect, you let him know what you intend to do and give him a chance to respond. You assume he is competent and involve him in his care and let him, as much as possible, solve his own problems. You give him plenty of physical freedom and you don't push development.
Oakland is home, and you always want to go home. Anytime you get the chance, you're happy to go home.
I MUST go to what desperately frightens me -- the chance of failure.
There would be no chance to get to know death at all. . . if it happened only once.
Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.
I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.
Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.
After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.
You may only get one chance at something. . . and that requires confidence in your ability.
Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.
The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.
Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.
Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.
Let us do something, while we have the chance!. . . Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!
Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers!
You already gave me forever, Aislinn. I'm asking for a chance at right now.
I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.
