Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning.

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Never again will we have this good a chance as we now have to find an enduring place for ourselves within the natural systems that keep us alive. It's a sweet spot in history. That's why this is such a critical time.

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

Never miss a chance to shut up

Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.

Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.

Nobody gives you a chance, you got to take chances.

No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

Nokia was number one for 14 years and still has the chance to be so again.

No, I'll take responsibility for my own life, I am going to make a decision. And you know, to this day, I would raise flags on all public buildings to celebrate the chance I had to make that decision.

No matter where you're born in life or what the circumstances are when you're born, like your parents being poor or not connected to power, you have a chance in this country to go as far as your talent and your work will take you.

No matter what Bernie Sanders did, no matter how many delegates he was getting, Hillary Clinton was always going to trump this, and Bernie never had a chance. That's the real rigging of an election; that's the real interference in an election, and nobody talks about that, including Crazy Bernie.

None of the modes by which a magistrate is appointed, popular election, the accident of the lot, or the accident of birth, affords, as far as we can perceive, much security for his being wiser than any of his neighbours. The chance of his being wiser than all his neighbours together is still smaller.

No one ever told us we had to study our lives,make of our lives a study, as if learning natural historyor music, that we should beginwith the simple exercises firstand slowly go on tryingthe hard ones, practicing till strengthand accuracy became one with the daringto leap into transcendence, take the chance of breaking down in the wild arpeggioor faulting the full sentence of the fugue.

No one can stop you from doing exactly what you want to do. If you can accept that the cavalry won't come, and if you can be the cavalry, it gives you a chance to be happy.

No one gives you a chance. You have to take chances.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations.

Nothing ever happens by chance; everything is pushed from behind.

Nothing could be left to chance, because chance, after all, can be dangerous. But what I didn't realize all that time, what I missed all along, is that chance is everywhere. It's also what life is made of. It's all around us, but most of the time we never see it working.

Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

Nothing in the many processes of Nature, whether she deals with men or with things, comes by chance or accident or is really at the mercy of external causes.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

Not only do the brave get killed, but the brave have a better chance of it.

Not purpose but chance is at the heart of mental life.

Not to get too deep on shaving my mustache, but it was kind of symbolic of, 'This is a moment of liberation, a chance to reinvent yourself.' That's kind of what I did.

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live.

Now he looked at the classic parked on the street and admitted, “I bought it soon after we met. I… had hoped someday I might have this chance.” I pointed to the Galaxie. “You can’t possibly have felt like that for me then!” He turned to gaze into my eyes, laying his chin on my shoulder as he said softly, “I have loved you with everything in me from the moment I saw you.