Quotes of: Better-chance Keyword

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life.

Life

What is the charm in dying when we fully well know that we are not going to get another chance at living?

Life

Don't deny your parents a chance at happiness and also an opportunity to see you achieve greatness.

Unarine Ramaru

If only you could see me as the Devil does: palatable & raw; chasing a chance blue moon

Virginia Petrucci

Laugh while you've got the chance, you won't laugh much when you are dead and buried.

W. Somerset Maugham

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

African

It is good to know the truth and to speak the truth. It is even better to know the truth and speak about palm trees.

Arabian

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Proverbs 21:9

Biblical

It's better to die two years early than to live one year too long.

Chinese

It's better to do good in the neighborhood than to burn incense far away.

Chinese

Better reap two days too soon than one too late.

Dutch

To do things wrong with best intentions is better than acting to the letter of the law with evil intentions.

Hebrew

It is better to be blind than to see things from only one point of view.

Indian

It is better if you could say "Here he ran away" than "Here he was killed."

Italian

It is better to receive awards that you don't deserve rather than deserve them and not receive them.

Portuguese

Better an ugly duckling from your own village than a beauty from foreign parts.

Romanian

One day before you is better than ten years behind you.

Russian

To quarrel with a man of good speech is better than to converse with a man who does not speak well.

Sanskrit

Praise makes good people better and bad people worse.

Traditional

No attempt should be made to "reconcile" Yahweh's hardening of Pharaoh's heart (plagues 6,8,9,10) with statements in the other plagues that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. The tension cannot be resolved in a facile manner by suggesting, for example, ...

Exodus

Natural selection is not only a parsimonious, plausible and elegant solution; it is the only workable alternative to chance that has ever been suggested. Intelligent design suffers from exactly the same objection as chance. It is simply not a plausib...

The God Delusion