#chance

Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances. ↗

— Samuel E. Morison

#chances #changes #enthusiasm #excuse #going

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#advantage #appearance #appears #because #chances

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#chance #else #end #ever #eyes

So what I do now is to pre-empt that by making the up into a virtue, and telling funny stories about how crap I am before people have a chance to notice it for themselves and think maybe I haven't realised. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#am #before #chance #crap #funny

What the world needs now is more Americans. The U.S. is the first nation on earth deliberately dedicated to letting people choose what they want and giving them a chance to get it. ↗

— Ferdinand Mount

#choose #dedicated #deliberately #earth #first

Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder. ↗

— Tia Mowry

#even #harder #having #makes #second

From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice. ↗

— Bill Mumy

#along #am #being #came #chance

Taking pre-natal vitamins can minimise birth defects and can lower the chances both of morning sickness and premature delivery. ↗

— Heidi Murkoff

#both #chances #defects #delivery #lower

When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head. ↗

— Bill Murray

#chances #had #handle #head #i

Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound. ↗

— Juice Newton

#chance #example #feel #for example #gave