Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

The person who is capable of producing a large number of ideas per unit of time, other things being equal, has a greater chance of having significant ideas.

The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.

The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

The possibilities of thought training are infinite, its consequences eternal, and yet few take the pains to direct their thinking into channels that will do them good, but instead leave all to chance.

The price of a college education should never include a 1 in 5 chance of being sexually assaulted.

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

The problem with movies now is that studios don't take a chance.

The profit motive, indecorous though it may seem, may represent the best chance the poor have to reap some of globalization's benefits.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.

The public health of five million children should not be left to luck or chance.

There are a lot of things that American fans don't know about me yet! I would say they don't know me at all, but I guess that's great because now I have the chance to surprise them and make friends.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

There are people who can start having very powerful experiences without taking psychedelics. It can happen against their will. This is a universal phenomenon.

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

There are rules to luck, not everything is chance for the wise; luck can be helped by skill.

There are roles out there I want to play that I don't know if I'll ever get the chance to. But I'm not going to waste time waiting for those phone calls, passing up the chance to do these sorts of things. I'm more likely to go see a smaller, darker indie film, like Felony for instance, than I am to see an Avengers or perhaps even a Terminator.

There is a choice to make, a chance to take.

There are some great shows that come and go really fast, either because the network doesn't give them a chance or they just don't grab on to the psyche of the country quickly enough.

There is a chance that we could have at least as many dying from communicable diseases as we've had dying from the tsunami.

There is a banking adage that if it's growing like a weed, it's a good chance that it's a weed.

There is a good chance Donald Trump won't survive four years. Conflict of interest is the biggest danger for Trump. He is destroying one of the pillars of the free world. He is seeking to eliminate the very concept of conflict of interest. A lot of things in America were built on a code of honour. I am confident the damage done by ruling through family and friends will be made impossible by future regulation.

There is always a chance of failure, of producing something totally unnecessary. But I guess that chance of failure is what makes tightrope walking, race-car driving.

There is always a chance [for negotiations with Japan], or else it makes no sense to talk. How great is it? Right now, it is difficult for me to say, because this will depend, among other things, on the flexibility of our partners.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.

There is a very small chance that you might be really brilliant and really talented.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

There is no going back in life. There is no return. No second chance.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

There is no doubt such a thing as chance, but I see no reason why Providence should not make use of it.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

There is no sense in loving someone you can never wake up to except by chance.

There is nothing in life so irrational, that good sense and chance may not set it to rights; nothing so rational, that folly and chance may not utterly confound it.

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; then is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever lose the benefit.

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

There is small chance of truth at the goal, where there is not childlike humility at the starting-post.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

There is really not that much improvisation in my films. There is an acceptance of a chance.

There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.

Theres a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.

There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

There’s a 30% chance that it’s already raining.

There's a Buddhist precept that the only thing you deserve is the chance to do the work, and I've been given the chance to do the work.

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.