To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Luck is just another word for God's good grace.
JIM GENOVESE There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.
BALTASAR GRACIáN We addressed a need we had for speed and skill in getting Patrick Sharp.
DALE TALLON Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
RICHIE BENAUD I just threw it up. Call it luck. Call it skill. I have no idea.
LUKE WEAVER It's a combination of luck and skill. You've got to have a lot of eye contact.
LOUIE DOBOVSKY Luck is another name for God.
JIM GENOVESE It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
BALTASAR GRACIAN No soldier outlives a thousand chances. But every soldier believes in Chance and trusts his luck.
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE Skill is just a way to influence luck in your favor more often.
JAMES YAGER Busy' is another word for 'asshole'. 'Asshole' is another word for the guy you're dating.
GREG BEHRENDT Seeking is all very well, but holding requires greater talent: Seeking involves some luck; now the d...
OVID Relationships take skill, not perfection or luck!
STACI BARTLEY To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Luck is a word the bitter teach to the ignorant.
STEVE MARABOLI For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
FABRICE MUAMBA The more you work on refining your skill, the luckier you get at it.
ZENG HAN JUN Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
ERIC GILL Art is skill, that is the first meaning of the word.
HENRY GELDZAHLER There's a lot to learn from the family of a soldier as much as the soldier. Actually, 'warri...
BEN FOSTER Witchery is merely a word for what we are all capable of.
CHARLES DE LINT Too much zeal is a bad soldier who fires before the word of command
PROVERB The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometim...
PATRICK MACGILL I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special ...
PATRICK MACGILL Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and ...
PATRICK MACGILL Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.
PATRICK MACGILL Few men could explain why they enlisted, and if they attempted they might only prove that they had d...
PATRICK MACGILL A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched ...
PATRICK MACGILL There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine ...
PATRICK MACGILL Save for minor ailments and accident, my battalion is practically immune from sickness; colds come a...
PATRICK MACGILL Every battalion has its marching songs.
PATRICK MACGILL Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained p...
PATRICK MACGILL That in the captain's but a choleric word,
Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Tolerance is another word for indifference.
W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM Another word for life is challenge.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for creativity is courage
GEORGE PRINCE Another word for uncertainty is opportunity.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for tomorrow is mystery.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for hope is tomorrow.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for research is future.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for Humility is foolimity
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) Another word for action is today.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for sex is details.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for marriage is endurance.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for humility is service.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for life is uncertain.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for life is persistence.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for gratitude is abundance.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for corruption is stupidity.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for business is believe.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for humility is fool
ASARE BEN CHRIS(ABC) Rap is another word for poetry
SUPAH VAIPULU Another word for uninspiring is dark.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for woman is pretence.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for life is give.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for advertise is persuade.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for thinking is solution.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for religion is belief.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for relationship is idolatry.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for education is humility.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Another word for corruption is injustice.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Tolerance is another word for indifference.
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM Life is another word for struggle.
JOAN COLLEEN R. KATIPUNAN That in the captain 's but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. -Measure for Mea...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I thought I was in for another Patrick Sparks like last year the way he was shooting it.
MARK GOTTFRIED Love binds, and it binds forever. Good binds while evil unravels. Separation is another word for evi...
MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Fear is just another word for ignorance
HUNTER S. THOMPSON Safe is just another word for scared.
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN There is neither a Heaven for a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
GRAHAM GREENE Another word for education is Enlighten or Liberate.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) 'Gay' is not another word for 'shitty;' if you want to call the band shitty, then say they're shitty...
PETE WENTZ There is neither a Heaven nor a Hell. Life after Death is an oxymoron. Life is just another word for...
OLIVER MARKUS MALLOY Firing a bow requires concentration, skill and focus; all traits that help make a good soldier. The ...
LT. COLMARC HUTSON I guess chemistry is just another word for love.
SCOTT THOMPSON Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had n...
ALFRED HOUSMAN Little is the luck I've had, And oh, 'tis comfort small - To think that many another lad - Has had n...
ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Like much of everything we know, we acquire the knowledge, practice through trial and error, and per...
MARTHA LEE Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule -- these constit...
BHAGAVAD GITA Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constit...
BHAGAVAD GITA Luck is a very good word if you put a P before it.
SOURCE UNKNOWN "Luck" is a very good word if you put a P before it.
We Jews created the concept of good luck. Luck in Hebrew is mazel, which is not actually a word. It ...
CELSO CUKIERKORN hard, professional soldiers who are doing that for lack of another marketable skill.
JAIME SALAZAR What's another word for Thesaurus?
STEVEN WRIGHT I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
ANDREI PLATONOV Captaincy is 90 per cent luck and 10 per cent skill. But don't try it without that 10 per cent.
RICHIE BENAUD The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matt...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Without execution, 'vision' is just another word for hallucination.
MARK V. HURD Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.
CONOR MCGREGOR Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose.
KRIS KRISTOFFERSON The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter...
ALBERT EINSTEIN For my money, Patrick McGoohan is the quintessential Columbo adversary.
PETER FALK Every St. Patrick's Day every Irishman goes out to find another Irishman to make a speech to.
SHANE LESLIE I will never be normal. Normal is just another word for average.
JEFFREY FRY What's another word for Thesaurus?
STEVEN WRIGHT Antigonus, having taken one of his soldiers into a great degree of favor and esteem for his valor, g...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE This man gave up his life for all of us just as if he were in a war on foreign land. He was a soldie...
DONNIE WILLIAMS Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable.
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PATRICK DEMPSEY I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought...
PATRICK DEMPSEY With bikes, it is absolutely the case that you will get what you pay for. Invest in quality so it wi...
PATRICK DEMPSEY If I can sleep in until 9 A.M. - wow, what a luxury.
PATRICK DEMPSEY The best part about being married is feeling centered. Nothing else matters so much as long as you c...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Drama is easier to do because you just have to have the emotion and not get caught acting, but comed...
PATRICK DEMPSEY You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.
PATRICK DEMPSEY I have a specialized racing bike, which is great because it has a solid build, is comfortable to rid...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I know it can be dangerous, but I love racing. I worry my wife, but she knows it's important to ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
PATRICK DEMPSEY People sometimes mistake being serious with being taken seriously.
PATRICK DEMPSEY I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the ...
PATRICK DEMPSEY Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take...
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