Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

And we danced, and we drankAnd I've seen something you probably never got the chance to seeDon't worry, MaryCause I'm taking care of DannyAnd he's taking care of me

And you let go of your chance.

An entrepreneur starts at square one and is not afraid to take chances to get to square one hundred and one

Animals have sections in their stomachs which enable them to digest food without mastication, but human beings are supposed to chew their food before they swallow it down... So chew your food and give your salivary glands a chance to function!

An interviewer once asked me to discuss my collaboration with Elmer Bernstein, and precisely why I chose to work with him. My first thought was: How could I not work with Elmer, when I had the chance? Simply put, he's the best there is-the very best.

Another flashing chance at bliss Another kiss, another kiss

Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin

An unsuccessful manager blames failure on his obligations; the effective manager turns them to his own advantage. A speech is a chance to lobby...a visit to an important customer a chance to extract trade information.

An uprising of the reasonable is our only chance.

Any chance beats no chance.

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

Anyone who minimizes the importance of success to your future has given up on his or her own chances of accomplishment and is spending his or her life trying to convince others to do the same.

Anyone with a point of view loves it when they sway someone who disagrees with their point of view. I don't think that's a noble endeavor, though. And I don't think, as an endeavor, you really ever have a chance.

Any opportunity to share my experiences and help someone, I jump at the chance to do it. At this point in my life, I'm not nervous to share anything. Someone has to be real and completely transparent, why not me?

Any time someone says you have an opportunity to work with Martin Scorsese you jump at the chance.

A 'penchant for telling the truth' can cripple a candidates chances faster than being caught in flagrante delicto with the governor's wife.

A patient had a 50-50 chance of benefiting from visiting a physician as of 1910. Medicine was more like voodoo than science until the 20th Century.

A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

A person who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he or she ought only to consider whether in doing anything he or she is doing right or wrong- acting the part of a good person or a bad person.

A poor photographer meets chance one out of a hundred times and a good photographer meets chance all the time.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one.

A resolution that is communicated is no longer within thy power; thy attentions become now the plaything of chance; he who would have his commands certainly carried out must take man by surprise.

A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him.

Art is not arbitrary. A fine painting is not there by accident; it is not arrived at by chance. We are sensitive to tonalities.

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so?

As a filmmaker, it's about surviving and lasting. So many talented people that I've known in my life - directors and writers - just haven't made it and haven't had a chance.

Artists are always looking for new things and fresh ground and fresh air. If it feels new to me, there's a chance it'll feel new to the audience and we'll have found something.

As an actor, I think sort of relish the chance to take a leap and sort of put yourself out there. You know, it's, like on any film, you just have to be willing to embarrass yourself, because otherwise you are not going to really reveal anything that you have. So I think it's exciting.

As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

As many authors have said, if the writer is not surprised by events, then chances are that the reader will not be either, and grow bored.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

Ask yourself this: If there was zero chance of failure, what would you do? Now, go do that.

As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

As far as physicians go, chance is more valuable than knowledge.

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

As long as you can walk the street and you know there's a tomorrow, there's always that chance. That's how I've always been. I've always had complete belief that I would make something out of myself again, because to me, it's always been about accomplishment.

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better.

As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.

As you get older, every chance to win a championship is more crucial, because you are going to have less and less of them.

A studio session ... provides the greatest chance for control. Even though there is total freedom, I still dislike studio photography and the contrived images that usually stem from this genre.

At 8:23 there seemed every chance of a lasting alliance starting between Florin and Guilder. At 8:24 the two nations were very close to war.

At a better pace, slower and more calculated No chance of escape.

A theory is scientific only if it can be disproved. But the moment you try to cover absolutely everything the chances are that you cover nothing.

A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.