Best chance & half Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.”

Ifs Chance Half Audience Saws Fairs Shocked Twists Always Believe

Author:Damon Lindelof

“Before Medicare, nearly half of American seniors were forced to go without coverage because insurance companies were reluctant to insure them - making the chances of having health insurance as a senior the same as getting tails on a coin flip.”

Chance Half Company Tails Senior Coins Flip Coverage Reluctant Medicare Insurance Companies

Author:John B. Larson

“A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place.”

Ifs World Want May Sometimes Life Is Strong Chance Half Meant To Be Have Faith Take A Chance Making Changes Persevere Right Place Unsure

Author:Esther Earl

“Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.”

Humans Order Given Chance Human Beings Half Spread Confusion

Book:The Fall of the Towers

Source: The Fall of the Towers

“For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.”

Men Years Given Chance Half Path Talent Twenties Investing Reputation Fortunate Merit Prize Pretending Composition Renown

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“When we started the show, there were mixed responses. Half of the people said, 'That show doesn't have a chance.' The other half said, 'That show doesn't have a prayer.'”

People Said Shows Chance Prayer Half Response Other Half

Author:David Letterman

“Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.”

Writing Humans Chance Half Degrees Labour Diligence Unfinished Exactness Executors

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and Genius

“Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.”

Ifs Humans Shows Happens Humanity Names Chance Half Destiny Blow Human Life Life And Death Again And Again Persistent Hearted Drought Canals Half Hearted

Book:Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

Source: Black lamb and grey falcon: a journey through Yugoslavia

“Give the young half a chance and they will create their own future, they will even create their own heaven and earth.”

Giving Earth Young Heaven Chance Half Youth Heaven And Earth

Book:Works

Source: Works

“I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.”

Humans Problem Running Given Chance Human Beings Half Disease Sitting Leap Rats No Fear Foul Loaded Have No Fear

Author:David Attenborough

“A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.”

Ifs Heart Given Chance Half Amazing Things

Book:Squashed

Source: Squashed

“Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.”

People Ifs Knows Country Language Given Chance Half Land Willing Population Uncertainty Abandon Peru Foreign Lands

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to the belief that we would all be in a much better place if half the human race (women) were empowered to prosper, invent, be educated, start their own businesses, run for office essentially be given the chance to soar.”

“The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.”

Past Purpose Passion Individual Given Community Chance Half Issues Revolution Ideals Transformation Species Cosmos Adolescence Units Annihilation Deployment Family Unit New Family

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“A man who cannot win fame in big own age will have a very small chance of winning it from posterity. True, there are some half-dozen exceptions to this truth among millions of myriads that attest it; but what man of common sense would invest any large amount of hope in so unpromising a lottery?”

Men Bigs Age Winning Chance Common Half Millions Amount Fame Common Sense Exception Dozen Posterity Lottery

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack, You may get a bland smile from these sages; But should it, by chance, be imported from France, Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!”

Ifs Should May Chance Half France Orthodox Cracks Crowns Wages Sage Smack Bland

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“When you know both yourself as well as your competition, you are never in danger. To know yourself and not others, gives you half a chance of winning. Knowing neither yourself or your competition puts you in a position to lose.”

Knows Giving Wells Motivational Winning Sports Loses Chance Half Knowing Danger Position Competition Know Yourself

Author:Sun Tzu

“If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.”

Ifs Giving Actors Chance Acting Half Audience

Author:William Hazlitt

“Jenny Simpson loses her shoe in the women's fifteen hundred, with a lap and a half to go, destroying her chances to repeat as world champion, and she gives the most gracious interview afterward about how she's had a wonderful career already. Great for Jenny Simpson. Bad for the sport! We need drama!”

World Needs Giving Sports Loses Chance Half Careers Wonderful Drama Hundred Shoes Champion Repeats Interviews Destroying Fifteen Lap Gracious World Champions Jenny

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Acting was definitely half of what I loved about storytelling and about theater. So, when I get a chance to do a cameo in a show or do a movie, it's a lot of fun and it's always great stepping outside of yourself and either playing a bizarro version of yourself or playing a character.”

Character Shows Fun Chance Acting Half Theater Versions Storytelling Cameos

Author:Josh Groban

“You can make startling changes you can’t even conceive of right now, if you just give yourself half a chance.”

Ifs Giving Chance Half Right Now

Book:7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher

Source: 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness: Power Ideas from America's Foremost Business Philosopher

“If you give Shevchenko half a chance, he'll score two goals. That's how good he is”

Ifs Giving Two Goal Chance Half Score

Author:Mark Hateley

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