Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

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

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 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.

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 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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.

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 very small cause, which escapes us, determines a considerable effect which we cannot ignore, and we say that this effect is due to chance.

At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.

At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'

A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t' his other virtues, They're all unseason'd without it.

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.

A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.

A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.

A wife, a lover, can perhaps never see what the artist sees. They rarely ever do. Perhaps a really mediocre artist has more chance of success.

Back in 1987 when they drafted me. The Indians were the only team interested in taking a chance on Albert Belle, and I made the most of it. Hopefully, they got as much from me as I got from them.

Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

Be a football to Time and Chance, the more kicks, the better, so that you inspect the whole game and know its utmost law.

Because I was single, there was a chance I was a homosexual. Because I went to Syracuse, wherever that was, then I was probably a Communist. Or worse, a Liberal. Because I was from Memphis, I was a subversive intent on embarrassing Ford County.

Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

Beautiful forms and compositions are not made by chance, nor can they ever, in any material, be made at small expense.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

Because if you were the problem, chances were you could also be the solution. The only way to find out was to take another shot.

Black folks don't have a chance, so they are in the hood, dealing drugs, in a shoot-out. They do it again and one more time they are out.

Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.

Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it. The time you spend living in fear is time you cannot spend living in love. The time you spend hiding and retreating from life is time you cannot spend growing and advancing and achieving.

Before you save anyone else, you have to save yourself. otherwise, you'rejust a bundle of tics, a stringed puppet manipulated by the chance and the insensible wind.

Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

Being appointed Elder Professor meant very much taking over the shop, in that the professor in those days controlled all the moneys.

Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences.

Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution.

Best thing about doing Youtube as a job - the Youtube friends that I've met all around the world, that I never would have got the chance to meet without Youtube.

Bon chance, mon ami," Dante called softly. Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.