Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

A lot of the routes cornerbacks have to defend are quick underneath routes, so it's tougher to get a chance to track the ball on those.

Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

A lucky chance is constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

Always say how you feel because you never know if you'll get the chance again.

Am I jealous? he thought, astonished. Jealous of the chance object to which she has attached herself? Jealous of something that does not concern me? One can be jealous of a love that has turned away, but not of that to which it has turned.

Am I crazy to spend [millions] in contracts when I have the chance to get three layers deep into the playoffs?

Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.

An adult woman should not be so possessive of her own birthday that she begrudges her friends the chance to get married on the same day.

... a mysterious intersection of chance and attention that goes well beyond the existential surrealism of the 'decisive moment'.

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.

And at any moment it all ends with a heartbeat…just one heartbeat, and there’s no more time. One heartbeat and the chance to be saved is gone. One heartbeat and there’s no more choosing—it’s all sealed for eternal life or eternal death.

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

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.

Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin

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

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'

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.