“I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.” IfsI CanRunningChanceWindJailSantaSpitCountyDon't TrustJudicialBarbaraJudicial SystemSanta Barbara Author:Randy Quaid
“About 95% of people can be compared to ships without rudders. Subject to every shift of wind and tide, they're helplessly adrift. And while they fondly hope that they'll one day drift into a rich and successful port, you and I know that for every narrow harbor entrance, there are a 1,000 miles of rocky coastline. The chances against their drifting into port are 1,000 to one.” PeopleKnowsChanceSuccessfulRichSubjectsWindOne DayMilesShipsTidesHarborsPortEntrancesDriftingRuddersAdriftCoastline Author:Earl Nightingale
“I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.” KnowsWantLifeGivingFeelsYearsChanceWindComputerCreatingGive MeApplesStomachGive Me A ChanceCreating Things Author:Steve Jobs
“The White House says that the vacation in Texas will give President Bush the chance to unwind. My question is, when does the guy wind?” GivingDoeGuyHousePoliticsPresidentChanceWhiteWindWhite HouseTexasVacationPresident BushUnwind Author:David Letterman
“But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.” ChanceWindSlaveBlowAccidentsGuilty Author:William Shakespeare
“This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.” Life IsChanceStepsImagineWindArgumentStructureComplexesCome UpAriseDiscussionManifestationImagine ThatImprobableLikelihoodBiologistBoeingAssemblingSingle StepWind BlowingJunkyard Author:John Maynard Smith
“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.” PeopleIfsYearsKindDifferentHardMomentsProcessChanceChangedWindBlowScaryBreatheBoatLakesDifferent KindsCanoeing Author:Seth Godin
“Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.” WorldMayArtSeemsChanceStruggleRocksWindGeniusGloryRootsAdversityProductionsDelightSpreadSeedsStrikesMaturitySunshineNow And ThenThornsDisappointingVigorVegetationBirthplace Author:Washington Irving
“Chance will not do the work. Chance sends the breeze; But if the pilot slumber at the helm, The very wind that wafts us tow'rds the port May dash us on the shoals. The steersman's part Is vigilance, or blow it rough or smooth.” IfsMayChanceWindBlowRoughPilotsSmoothBreezePortVigilanceSlumberHelmTow Author:Ben Jonson