Best hundred & chance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.”

Writing Years Two Chance Poor Rooms Dog Hundred Stress Writing Poetry

Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas

“Demean thyself more warily in thy study than in the street. If thy public actions have a hundred witnesses, thy private have a thousand. The multitude looks but upon thy actions; thy conscience looks into them: the multitude may chance to excuse thee, if not acquit thee; thy conscience will accuse thee, if not condemn thee.”

Ifs Looks May Action Chance Study Streets Thousand Hundred Conscience Excuse Witness Thee Retirement Multitudes Thyself

Book:Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

Source: Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles

“Journalism is an extraordinary and terrible privilege. Not by chance, if you are aware of it, does it consume you with a hundred feelings of inadequacy. Not by chance, when I find myself going through an event or an important encounter, does it seize me like anguish, a fear of not having enough eyes and enough ears and enough brains to look and listen and understand like a worm hidden in the wood of history.”

Ifs Looks Doe Important Enough Feelings Eye Chance Brain Events Terrible Hundred Ears Extraordinary Privilege Woods Journalism Encounters Anguish Worms Inadequacy Feelings Of Inadequacy

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.”

Source: Desert Solitaire

“I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.”

Years Humans Said Used Chance Race Hell Hundred Agree Human Race Snowball

Author:Pete Seeger

“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

“If you call a hundred dollars but have a chance to win $10,000, those are excellent odds if you are at a table with people who have two aces or two kings. If you catch a flop you will get all their chips. I just play them because there is value.”

People Ifs Two Play Values Winning Chance Kings Hundred Tables Dollars Excellent Odds Chips Aces

Author:Daniel Negreanu

“When I was secretary of state, I went around the world advocating for America, but also advocating for women's rights, to make sure that women had a decent chance to have a better life and negotiated a treaty with Russia to lower nuclear weapons. Four hundred pieces of legislation have my name on it as a sponsor or cosponsor when I was a senator for eight years.”

“Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years.”

Men Giving Years Goal Chance White Four Kings Hundred Restaurants Drs White Man Luther Dr Martin Luther King

Author:Malcolm X

“The gravitational constant, if it were off by one part in a hundred million million, then the expansion of the universe after the Big Bang would not have occurred in the fashion that was necessary for life to occur. When you look at that evidence, it is very difficult to adopt the view that this was just chance.”

Ifs Looks Bigs Universe Difficult Chance Views Millions Fashion Hundred Evidence Constant Expansion Bangs

Author:Richard Dawkins

“If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.”

Ifs Years Next Chance Hundred Europe England Islam Ruling

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.”

Ifs Years Wells Long Hours Chance Millions Tomorrow One Day Thousand Hundred Chains Thousand Years Shaking Gamble Shackles One Chance

Book:Nights at the circus

Source: Nights at the circus

“I need your help.” Royce looked up as if his head weighed a hundred pounds, his eyes red, his face ashen. He waited. “One last job,” Hadrian told him, then added, “I promise.” “Is it dangerous?” “Very.” “Is there a good chance I’ll get killed?” “Odds are definitely in favor of that.” Royce nodded, looked down at the scarf in his lap, and replied, “Okay.”

Ifs Needs Helping Eye Jobs Lasts Faces Chance Dangerous Promise Hundred Red Okay Favors His Eyes Pounds Odds Lap I Promise Good Chance Scarves Hadrian

Author:Michael J. Sullivan

“Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance at community; interrupt kids with bells and horns all the time and they will learn that nothing is important or worth finishing; ridicule them and they will retreat from human association; shame them and they will find a hundred ways to get even. The habits taught in large-scale organizations are deadly.”

Source: Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling

“A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.”

Men Sometimes Wanted Evil Opportunity Chance Failing Fame Hundred Riches Meddling One Chance

Book:Novels, 1930-1935

Source: Novels, 1930-1935

“Do you know, Mother, that Haj Salem was buried alive in his home? Does he tell you stories in heaven now? I wish I had had a chance to meet him. To see his toothless grin and touch his leathery skin. To beg him, as you did in your youth, for a story from our Palestine. He was over one hundred years old, Mother. To have lived so long, only to be crushed to death by a bulldozer. Is this what it means to be Palestinian?”

Knows Years Mean Long Doe Stories Home Mother Heaven Wish Chance Alive Youth Hundred Skins Do You Know Buried Palestinian Palestine Crushed Salem Toothless Bulldozers

Author:Susan Abulhawa

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