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“Life is for the living. I was a little scared before surgery 'cause of the release you sign that says there's always a very small percent chance that you'll die during the operation.”

Littles Life Is Dies Causes Chance Percent Scared Release Operations Surgery

Author:Billy West

“In violent and chaotic times such as these, our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making little havens of our homes.”

Littles Home Lying Order Women Chance Havens Creating Survival Violent Islands Sanity Chaotic

Book:Falling Bodies

Source: Falling Bodies

“Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?”

Feels Littles Turns Chance Magic Dirt

Book:Flipped

Source: Flipped

“I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.”

Ifs Thinking Littles Doe Reality Force President Chance Teach Clear Threatened Saddam Diplomacy Hussein

Author:Tony Blair

“I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.”

Littles Chance Example Accidents Helpful Canvas Brushes Cleaning Spilling Gauntlet

Author:Joan Miro

“All the wild world is beautiful, and it matters but little where we go, to highlands or lowlands, woods or plains, on the sea or land or down among the crystals of waves or high in a balloon in the sky; through all the climates, hot or cold, storms and calms, everywhere and always we are in God's eternal beauty and love. So universally true is this, the spot where we chance to be always seems the best.”

Source: John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir

“As an emerging photojournalist in the early 70s, my focus was on trying to create stories for magazines to the exclusion of almost everything else. I wish someone had told me then that the most personally important pictures you’ll ever make are those about you and your life. I’m glad I had the chance to work for some great magazines, but I really miss those little everyday images, the ones that take place in and around your own life, which will never make the news. Don’t sell yourself short: photograph your own life, not just everyone else’s.”

Trying Littles Important Stories Wish Chance Focus Missing News Sells Everyday Photograph Glad Magazines Emerging Exclusion Photojournalists Yourself Short

Author:David Burnett

“History is often the tale of small moments—chance encounters or casual decisions or sheer coincidence—that seem of little consequence at the time, but somehow fuse with other small moments to produce something momentous, the proverbial flapping of a butterfly’s wings that triggers a hurricane.”

Source: Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East

“The way I see it, it's a great thing to be the man who hit the most home runs, but it's a greater thing to be the man who did the most with the home runs he hit. So as long as there's a chance that maybe I can hammer out a little justice now and then, or a little opportunity here and there, I intend to do as I always have -- keep swinging.”

Men Way Littles Long I Can Home Running Opportunity Justice Chance Greater He Man Great Things Now And Then Hammers Here And There Home Run Greater Things

Book:I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

Source: I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story

“I think the best thing is being able to play golf competitively for a living. Ever since I was a little boy, that's something I've always wanted to do, and now I get a chance to live out my dreams.”

Thinking Littles Play Dream Able Wanted Chance Boys Golf Best Things Little Boys

Author:Tiger Woods