Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

The wonderful thing about Jazz is its willingness to take chances.

The word "tip" stands for "to insure promptness." So when should you give it? Up front,of course. Sophisticated people don't take chances on poor service, they insure good service.

The worst part about being married is when you're not connecting. Your partner is going out the door when you're coming in, and you don't have a chance to debrief on the day. That's the worst.

They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.

They babble and talk absurdly who, in the place of God's providence, substitute bare permission - as if God sat in a watchtower awaiting chance events , and his judgments thus depended upon human will.

They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.

The young people have read my book. Now I have no chance.

They're {Marvel] the ones who have went out and bought the comic book whenever it came out. They're the real investors. They serve them. Having a chance to be part of that Marvel Universe is just - well, it is what it is. It's just fantastic.

They... who await. No gifts from Chance, have conquered Fate.

They won't give peace a chance, that's just a dream some of us had

Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A.

This argument [that life is too improbable to have arisen by chance] comes up repeatedly: its latest manifestation is Hoyle's discussion of the likelihood of a wind blowing through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 707 [sic]. What is wrong with it? Essentially, it is that no biologist imagines that complex structures arise in a single step.

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

This equation of the impersonal plus time plus chance producing the total configuration of the universe and all that is in it, modern people hold by faith.

This fathering is a man's second chance at living.

This is my chance to make it all happen, in the one city, where they say dreams come true.

This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.

This is my moment, this is my chance to make a difference, and you know, I just went for the ball, I attacked it, and I went and got it, ... I was gonna catch that ball, regardless of what happens.

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.

This is what I love about the Kimberley... wild gorges, fresh water and there's always a chance of a barra taking your lure.

This is your one chance. Tell me where the key is." "Okay." Serpine raised an eyebrow. "Really?" "No, only joking. Do your worst.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

This moment is so much bigger than me. It's for every nameless, faceless woman of colour that now has a chance because this door tonight has been opened.

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance.

Those who consume far more resources than they require destroy the life chances of those whose survival depends upon consuming more.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'

To be successful, one must take chances.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I don’t deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I’m not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.

To let sorrow go his own way one gives happiness a chance

Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.

To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.