Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

People are so busy chasing happiness- if they would slow down and turn around, they would give it a chance to catch up with them.

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

People don't cheat by chance, they cheat by choice.

People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.

People who had been treated inhumanly, not given a chance to secure any foot on any ladder - and all the social mores were suddenly abandoned.

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

Perhaps the greatest gift we can offer each other is a second chance.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Personal development - the never ending chance to improve not only yourself, but also to attract opportunities and affect others.

Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.

Personally, I think life offers us the opportunity to take chances and make changes all the time.

Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance.

Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

Pity on the person who has become accustomed to seeing in necessity something arbitrary, who ascribes to the arbitrary some sort of reason, and even claims that following that sort of reason has religious value.

Please let me go." "Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me.

Play the shot you've got the best chance of playing well.

Play along, the wink said. I'll get you out of this. At least Artemis hoped this was what his wink communicated and not something like 'Any chance of another kiss later?

Poetic and speculative photographs can result if one works carefully and accurately, yet letting chance relationships have full play.

Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

Radio stinks. The stations are making a lot of money, but they just aren't taking chances.

Possession means nothing when the opponent takes its chances

Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.

Probably is not a word I like to hear when I'm talking about our chances of recouping a huge investment.

Prophetic of infidel times, and indicating the unsoundness of our general education, 'The Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation', has started into public favour with a fair chance of poisoning the fountains of science, and sapping the foundations of religion.

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.

Postulate 1. All chance systems of causes are not alike in the sense that they enable us to predict the future in terms of the past.

Prayer must not be our chance work but our daily business, our habit and vocation.

Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.

Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.

Realise when you are 'middle aged' you have a chance for a whole second career, another love, another life.

Reality itself is [made up of] chance processes linked to sets of rules - this is what drives the world, the universe, and just about anything a human being can imagine.

Recognize this as a holy gift and celebrate this chance to be alive and breathing.

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

Remove failure as an option and your chances for success become infinitely better.

Remember, second chances don't expire until midnight.

Remember that, lad, if you never remember anything else. We all touch each other's lives, for better or for worse. So say the things you have to say to people while you still have the chance.

Repentance is the word that gives us a second chance.

Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.

Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.

Schrödinger's cat has a 50% quantum chance of coming out of the box alive and a 50% quantum chance of coming out dead. If you got in the box with it, the same would apply to you. So you really don't want to do that.

Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

Sailboat racing becomes a game of chance only when you are not prepared

Saturday comes again, welcome or not, it comes again like it always does, welcome or not, wanted or not, another judgment day - The chance to be saved, the chance to be damned.