Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself.

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

It is really weird, things have just been crazy. Everything has happened so quickly I haven't had a chance to think.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do - need to do - more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

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 always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

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 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 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 always great to have another chance at something.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

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

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

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'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 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 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.