Quotes of: Take-a-chance Keyword

I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.

Last Last Chance

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

The Left Hand of Darkness

At this moment, all I'm thinking about is what I'd give up for the chance to kiss her or to run my fingers through her dark hair.

Legend

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Leaves of Grass

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Leaves of Grass

If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know yourself, you will bury your meals and complain of poverty!

Leaders' Watchwords

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer?

Science and Method

Life provides chances to open your heart all the time.

The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates

You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

Splintered

Plus it'll give you a chance to get us a wedding present. We're not registered anywhere, but we could seriously use some china and a blender.

Silver Shadows

He swallowed hard, annoyed at the sudden dryness in his throat. No reason to become all emotional about it now. He had already sold his soul for a chance at vengeance, and there was no getting it back.

Starshine

Every day is a chance to start over. Any day can be bad, surely, but any day can be good, can be great, and that promise, that potential, is a beautiful thing indeed.

The Stowaway

Sharks have a bad rep, but the truth is you have a greater chance of a vending machine falling on you than you do a shark attack.

Sunken Treasure

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

Selected Works

A composition—and every work of art is one—is created in a wondrous interplay between imagination and reason, or between mind and reflection. For there will always be an element of chance in the creative process.

Sophie's World

Tomorrow is an illusion suggesting that another chance always exists.  It is a dangerously false illusion.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

If you were mine, I’d make love to you every chance I got, so whenever we were apart, you’d still feel me inside you.

Tornado Allie

You guys just aren’t fair, between your vampire pheromones and your gorgeous good looks, we humans just don’t stand a chance.

The Original Sin

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

One of Us

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

Pensées D'un Biologiste