#chance

We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them. ↗

— Barbara Boxer

#build #chance #democracy #enough #explain

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides. ↗

— Euripides

#better #better chance #both #both sides #chance

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance. ↗

— Anne Bradstreet

#chance #else #i #i do #prove

My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism. ↗

— Wayne Brady

#blow #chance #dimension #escapism #fight

If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic. ↗

— Richard Eyre

#chance #commonplace #denied #exotic #fantasy

When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people. ↗

— Mark Twain

#against #being #cannot #chances #deceive

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp. What works in one doesn't work in the other, and you have to be looking for the truth of the performance, whatever way that medium might demand. ↗

— Kenneth Branagh

#demand #different #distinctly #film #get

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve. ↗

— Lorrie Fair

#best #chance #consider #getting #i

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role. ↗

— Sandra Brown

#become #chance #escape #got #i

British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#appalling #british #chancellor #democracy #europe