#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

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

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

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#chance #choice #destiny #matter #thing

For all their current prestige, Osama bin Laden and the suicide bombers are still regarded in all but the most desperate districts of Gaza or Peshawar as romantics with little chance of more than symbolic victories, however bloody and brutal. That gives both the Middle East and the West a small and distant hope of security. ↗

— James Buchan

#bloody #bombers #both #brutal #chance

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#bed #born #chance #child #children

My father, George, has also affected the choices in my life regarding films. I like films that take chances or say something different or experiment. Growing up with him, I was surrounded by different artists - not just actors or film-makers but cartoonists, poets, writers. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#also #artists #cartoonists #chances #choices

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act. ↗

— Leonardo DiCaprio

#chance #characters #emotionally #gives #ill

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#chances #control #did #everything #feel

I've always had that gratitude that I had the opportunity to pursue my potential. So I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver. We can make the world a better place, one butt at a time. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#always #better #better place #chance #deliver