chance

Lacking the direct test of success or failure, the voter tends to turn, not to those politicians whose measures have the best chance of success, but to those with the ability to 'sell' their propaganda. Without grasping logical chains of deduction, the average voter will never be able to discover the error that the ruler makes.

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.

The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

I think what is important for things to be funny is if you the listener, or the reader, get a chance to supply the humor of it yourself.

When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

My mother wanted to be an actress. She wanted to follow her dreams, and she never really got a chance to do that. I feel like I'm following her dream in a way.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.

Whether it's raising the minimum wage, fixing our broken immigration system or supporting an economic climate that gives our businesses that chance to succeed, I hope to continue to fight these important battles on behalf of my constituents.

How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

I hope I will always have the chance to play the violin.

War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don't want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there's a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.