Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.
I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.
A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.
What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.
I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
This almost never happens, but what is really relaxing is just being in this house all by myself, sitting quietly and watching TV. But I basically never get that chance.
I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
If you get so unequal that people believe they don't have a chance, that the field isn't level for them and their children, that puts democracy at risk.
If you get depressed, you can be stuck for months; if you have an analyst, you at least have a chance of getting out of it faster.
I think more tolerance, more people having more access to a chance to be literate, and a chance to stay healthy makes for a more peaceful planet.
When I first heard Wallace Stevens' voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.
All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
While I'm more of a soccer and tennis fan myself, I still enjoying catching some football games when I get the chance.
Carry your Bible and live by it. There's a better chance that you will stay married if that much is true for either one of you - male or female.
