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“When I ran for the U.S. Senate the assumption was that anyone's name that was close to "Osama" doesn't stand a chance. So if somebody thought that tacking on "Hussein" in there would be a killer, then I think they underestimate the American people and the seriousness of the problems we face.”

People Ifs Thinking Problem Would Be Faces Names Chance Ran Assumption Senate Killers Underestimate Hussein Seriousness

Author:Barack Obama

“As a writer I want everybody to get a chance to voice their opinions. If each character thinks that they're telling the truth, then it's valid. Then at the end of the film, I leave it up to the audience to decide who did the right thing.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ends Character Film Voice Chance Opinion Audience Right Thing Telling The Truth

Author:Spike Lee

“For me, makeup is about being your best self. If I wake up in a foul mood and have to deal with temper tantrums and an exploding diaper--I know taking 10 minutes to get my game face on will reset my stress levels. It's a chance to check in and remind myself--you got this.”

Source: The Honest Life (Enhanced Edition): Living Naturally and True to You

“Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds.”

Ifs Chance Animal Results Moral Aids Experiments Cures

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.”

Ifs Hard Enough Fall Chance Greater Harder Get Over Fence Chances Are

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.”

Ifs Men Looks Littles Lying Girl Chance Rich Taste Husband Good Man Rich Man

Book:The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

Source: The Prime Minister (Unabridged): Parliamentary Novel from the prolific English novelist, known for The Warden, Barchester Towers, Doctor Thorne, The Last Chronicle of Barset, Can You Forgive Her? and Phineas Finn

“The authentic rebel knows that the silencing of all his adversaries is the last thing on earth he wishes: their extermination would deprive him and whoever else remains alive from the uniqueness, the originality, and the capacity for insight that these enemies being human also have and could share with him. If we wish the death of our enemies, we cannot talk about the community of man. In the losing of the chance for dialogue with our enemies, we are the poorer.”

Source: Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

“The wisdom of God exceeds that of the wisest man, more than his wisdom exceeds that of a child. If a child were to conjecture how an army is to be formed in the day of battle--how a city is to be fortified, or a state governed--what chance has he to guess right? As little chance has the wisest man when he pretends to conjecture how the planets move in their courses, how the sea ebbs and flows, and how our minds act upon our bodies.”

Ifs Men Mind Children Littles States Body Moving Courses Chance Cities Sea Planets Battle Flow Army Exceed Wisest Conjecture Ebb And Flow Wisest Man

Book:Philosophical works

Source: Philosophical works

“The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.”

Ifs Knows Hard Reason Enough Use Body Chance Animal Know How Pieces Creatures Bird Balls Flesh Hunting One Piece Squirrels

Author:James F. Cooper

“I think marriage is all about timing. Getting married is insanity; I mean, it's a risk - who knows if you're going to be together forever? But you both say, 'We're going to take this chance, in the same spirit.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mean Together Spirit Chance Forever Risk Married Insanity Timing Getting Married Together Forever

Author:Cate Blanchett

“The chief obstacle to success lies in the stubborn fact that if the favorable prospects of a concern are clearly apparent they are almost always reflected already in the current price of the stock. Buying such an issue is like betting on a topheavy favorite in a horse race. The chances may be on your side, but the real odds are against you.”

Ifs May Real Facts Lying Sides Chance Race Issues Concern Horse Currents Obstacles Chiefs Buying Odds Stubborn Your Side Prospects Betting

Author:Benjamin Graham

“Many people don't wake up. They fight against a difficult time, shut the window and become more bitter. Fortunately or unfortunately, however you see it, we are served up those opportunities over and over in our life. So if you've shut the window, don't worry, another hard time is going to come around the corner - to give you that chance all over again.”

People Ifs Giving Hard Fighting Opportunity Difficult Chance Worry Our Lives Window Wake Up Corners Bitter Hard Times Difficult Times Around The Corner

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“What makes a date so dreadful is the weight of expectation attached to it. There is every chance that you may meet your soulmate, get married, have children and be buried side by side. There is an equal chance that the person you meet will look as if they've already been buried for some time.”

Ifs Looks May Children Persons Sides Chance Equal Married Expectations Weight Your Soul Buried Soulmate Your Soulmate

Book:Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges

Source: Never Hit a Jellyfish with a Spade: How to Survive Life's Smaller Challenges

“If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.”

Source: In Defense of Politics

“Luck, if it mean nothing more than an event of which the cause is not apparent, is a term that may be employed without error; but if it means, as it generally does, an event which has no cause at all, a mere chance, it is a bad word, a heathen term; drop it from your vocabulary; trust nothing to luck, nor expect anything from it; avoid all practical use or dependence upon this or its kindred words, fate, chance, fortune.”

Ifs May Mean Doe Use Causes Term Chance Fate Events Luck Errors Fortune Mere Practicals Dependence Vocabulary Employed Kindred Heathen Bad Word

Book:The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality

Source: The young man's friend and guide through life to immortality

“If liberals can seize our guns because they are dangerous, we have no chance of holding on to our cars and our homes. The total number of accidental fatalities (the majority of which are hunting accidents) of all types of firearms is infinitesimal compared to the number of fatalities from car and home accidents. More children die from playing with cigarette lighters than from playing with loaded guns.”

Ifs Children Home Dies Chance Numbers Dangerous Car Type Gun Majority Accidents Hunting Cigarette Holding On Loaded Lighters Firearms Fatality Loaded Gun

Author:Paul Craig Roberts

“I have come to believe that large print, thick and heavy paper, and wide margins and oversize leading is indicative of the expected intelligence of the reader. … Compare children's books and books on Web Duhsign or other X-in-21-days books. If the reading level of a specification is below college level, chances are the people behind it are morons and the result morose.”

“I honestly believe that sound commercialism is the best test of true value in art. People work hard for their money and if they won't part with it for your product the chances are that your product hasn't sufficient value. An artist or writer hasn't any monopoly .... If the public response to his artistry is lacking, he'd do well to spend more time analyzing what's the matter with his work, and less time figuring what's the matter with the public.”

Source: Pegasus Pulls a Hack: Memoirs of a Modern Minstrel

“If you're looking at the Bible for a guide to living a compassionate, wise and humane life, well, frankly you've got more chance of finding a lap dancing club in Mekka or a virgin in a catholic orphanage.”

Ifs Wells Chance Wise Findings Catholic Dancing Clubs Guides Compassionate Virgins Lap Humane Orphanage

Author:Pat Condell

“Fate knows all about you, it knows your fears and your weaknesses and your confidences and strengths, and it can be ready for all of them when it decides that the time is right. It can move you like a pawn in a terrible game of chess, sacrifice you for the good of others, drop you from a building you should never have been inside, give you a disease that no one has ever heard of. Luck and chance are impartial. Fate is active. It picks on people. Almost as if it thinks about things too much.”

Source: Face

“If God resides anywhere ... surely he shelters behind barricades of pure chance.”

Ifs Chance Behinds Pure Shelter Barricades

Author:Simon Mawer

“It takes time and experience to absorb new technologies, so technologically backward producers need a period of protection from international competition during this period of learning. Such protection is costly, because the country is giving up the chance to import better and cheaper products. However, it is a price that has to be paid if it wants to develop advanced industries.”

Source: Bad Samaritans: The Guilty Secrets of Rich Nations and the Threat to Global Prosperity

“It's amazing to me that not only can we put a probe around Saturn and get images of its moons, but our math and physics are so freaking accurate we can say, "Hey, you know what? On this date at this time if we turn Cassini that way we'll see a moon over 2 million kilometers away pass in front of another one nearly 3 million kilometers away." Every morning, I have a 50/50 chance of finding my keys. That kinda puts things in perspective.”

Ifs Knows Way Turns Chance Morning Millions Fronts Perspective Keys Moon Findings Math Physics Hey Accurate Every Morning Hey You Saturn

Author:Phil Plait

“Canoeing was hard and scary, and the wind could blow you across the lake if you did it wrong. After a year of not doing it right, I could talk to people and get them to sit up straight, take different kinds of chances, to breathe differently, to engage in the moment in the boat. And I changed them, and I changed me in the process.”

People Ifs Years Kind Different Hard Moments Process Chance Changed Wind Blow Scary Breathe Boat Lakes Different Kinds Canoeing

Author:Seth Godin

“Olympics are probably the most important thing for Russians than any other athletes in the whole world. Since I was a little kid and since everybody was a little kid, their dream was playing in Olympic Games, especially if we have a chance to represent our country in Sochi, it's unbelievable and it's going to be a great thing.”

Ifs World Littles Important Country Whole Dream Kids Games Chance Important Things Athlete Whole World Great Things Our Country Olympics Unbelievable Little Kid Olympic Games Sochi

Author:Alexander Ovechkin

“One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.”

Ifs Looks Made Problem Political Guy Names Heaven Chance White Sake Snow Political Correctness Correctness White Guys Npr Kipling

Author:Tony Snow

“One of the reasons I'm lucky is to be around an owner like Jerry Jones. I'm not just saying it. The reality of it is the guy wants to win. As a quarterback, you need ownership and people in the front office and organization to help you win. If you don't get that help, you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle. You feel that, being a part of this organization with Jerry, that he's going to bring in people and sign people and want to improve this football team every year. It allows you to feel like, hey, we have a chance and I have a chance to do some special things around here.”

“You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.”

Ifs Trying Chance Ability One Day Get Better Keep Trying

Author:Tony Romo

“If the spiritual values of human existence at its highest term of development and achievement do not endure, amidst all the changes and chances of this mortal universe, there seems to be no stable or coherent meaning in existence. Then the universe is irrational--indeed it is no universe at all.”

Ifs Humans Seems Spiritual Values Universe Term Chance Existence Development Achievement Highest Endure Mortals Stable Irrational Human Existence Spiritual Values

Book:Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

Source: Man and the Cosmos - An introduction to Metaphysics.

“Even if there's a tiny tiny chance, isn't that worth going for it?”

Ifs Chance Tiny Going For It

Author:Louis Tomlinson

“If you spend your energies looking for and analysing situations not closely followed by other informed investors, your chance of finding bargains greatly increases.”

Ifs Energy Chance Situation Findings Increase Investors Bargains Analysing

Author:Joel Greenblatt

“Autonomy, Purpose, & Mastery: If you are having difficulty creating the life you want, chances are one or more of these are missing.”

Ifs Want Purpose Chance Missing Creating Difficulty Mastery Autonomy Chances Are

Author:Bill Crawford

“Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of the leader is to conceal artificiality. If you believe a leader is at all necessary then you must admit that the longer the leader the better chances you have for success”

Ifs Believe Use Remember Purpose Chance Leader Imagine Sea Rivers Fishes Handle Boat Lakes Fishing If You Believe Artificiality

Book:Trout

Source: Trout

“So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count each fish that he caught as ten, and to assume ten to begin with. For example, if he did not catch any fish at all, then he said he had caught ten fish - you could never catch less than ten fish by his system; that was the foundation of it. Then, if by any chance he really did catch one fish, he called it twenty, while two fish would count thirty, three forty, and so on.”

Ifs Made Said Two Three Chance Sea Example Ten Rivers Twenties Foundation Assuming Finals Caught Fishes Boat Thirty Lakes Fishing Forty Arrangements

Book:Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

Source: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog

“I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.”

Ifs War Chance History Killing Wounds Shooting Civil War If I Could Officers American Civil War

Author:Sam Watkins

“You are pushed to behave differently here, you don't really have a choice. If you cheat you have no chance of being admired. Even your own supporters will dislike you. So what do you do? Well, the way is not to be stupid, but not to cheat either. If there is a foul, you have to fall. I call it 'helping the referee to make a decision'. That's not cheating.”

Ifs Way Wells Helping Choices Fall Chance Decision Stupid Football Like You Managers Soccer Behave Cheating Dislike Cheat Supporter Chairman Foul Referee

Author:Jose Mourinho

“I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.”

Ifs Needs Ends Shows Next Sports Waiting Term Hurt Chance Week Training Surgery Joints Next Week

Author:Claudio Reyna

“I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.”

Ifs Want Care Sports Chance Don't Care I Don't Care

Author:Greg Maddux

“But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.”

Ifs Play Sports Can Do Chance Simple Player Coaches Block

Author:Steve Spurrier

“In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.”

“The Spirit of Justice is the single most important seed Piers planted; if you don't live by its teaching, your chance of salvation is nil. Unless Conscience and the Cardinal Virtues form the food that people live on, just take my word for it, they're utterly lost - every single living soul among them!”

People Ifs Important Soul Wisdom Form Spirit Politics Lost Justice Chance Economy Virtue Teaching Conscience Salvation Seeds Liberalism Live By Cardinals Piers

Author:William Langland

“I never got to see the '27 Yankees. Everyone says that was the greatest team ever. But I think it would've been a great series if we'd have had the chance to play them.”

Ifs Thinking Play Chance Team Baseball Series Yankees

Author:Mickey Mantle

“I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.”

Ifs Giving Sound Chance Player Picks Baseball Trade Edges Mickey Durability

Author:Gabe Paul

“It gave me a second chance. I'd like everybody to have a second chance if they need it, so I'm trying to let people know how important it is to become an organ donor.”

People Ifs Knows Needs Trying Important Chance Know How Baseball Organs Second Chance Donors Organ Donor

Author:Mickey Mantle

“During the ages of faith the Church argued, not illogically, that any degree of cruelty towards sinners and heretics was justified, if there was a chance that it could save them, or others, from the eternal torments of hell. Thus, in the name of the religion of love, hundreds of thousands of people were not merely killed but atrociously tortured in ways that made the gas chambers of Beslen seem humane.”

People Ifs Way Made Seems Age Names Church Chance Hell Atheism Degrees Eternal Positive Atheism Cruelty Gas Sinner Torment Justified Chamber Humane Heretic Gas Chambers

Author:Margaret E. Knight

“Celestial marriage is for the fullness of the glory of god. It is the crowning glory. A man has no right to one wife unless he is worthy of two.... There is no provision made for those who have had the chance & opperternity and have disregarded that law. Men who disregard that law are in the same situation as if they broke any other law. they are transgressors.”

Ifs Men Made Two Law Chance Situation Wife Glory Worthy Broke Fullness Provision Celestial Glory Of God Disregard Polygamy Disregarded Crowning Glory

Author:Francis M. Lyman

“I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.”

People Ifs Guy Enjoy Chance Known Scripts Albums Chances Are Other Guys Drawers

Author:Al Yankovic

“If both parties have a stake in the other, the chances of them killing each other are going to be reduced.”

Ifs Chance Party Killing Stakes Killing Each Other

Author:Frans de Waal

“I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.”

Ifs Men Feels Happens Felt Chance Groups Terrible Like Something Large Groups

Author:Josh Radnor

“If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.”

Ifs Country Process Born Chance East Coast Examining Thought Process East Coast

Author:Bill Burr