Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

It's a pity if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

It's a wonderful feeling that I get a chance to play with some of the best players in the world.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do.

It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

It's good to give some of the kids a chance for playing time and some confidence. It doesn't do any good to leave starters out there just to beat a team by 60-70 points.

It's hard to be happy for someone when you know deep down they'd kill you if they had the chance.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

It's kind of ironic that when you look at the evidence of intelligence and so on, a lot of it is anecdotal. A lot of it is, "Well, we saw this dolphin do this extraordinary thing," or, "We screwed up with our apparatus, and then the dolphins did this." And so it seems to me that the more we can actually watch them doing their thing, the better chance we'll have of making some sense of them.

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.

Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

It's only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that.

It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that.

Its so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

It was one of those things where you admire and respect a person, and you watch them for almost your entire life - and Meryl Streep was definitely one of those people that inspired me throughout my career. Having a chance to have a scene with her was pretty unreal.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question...' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that's my favorite thing. I know there's somebody out there who hates it.

I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

I've been typecast. People don't want to take a risk or a chance. Quite a few times they've come up to me and say "We want you to do that Russian accent." And I'll be like, "How about if I do an Irish accent or a South African accent," and they don't trust that you can properly pull them off.