Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

I'd love to get a chance to talk shop with Joss Whedon. That's pretty high up there on the list.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I do get one chance to dance [in GoF], I had to dance with Maggie Smith. That was the only dancing experience I had, which was actually quite enough really.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

I don't care whether it's a chance meeting or playing a role that you thought was totally wrong but you did it anyway. It will often turn out to be the thing that will lead you to the role which is sublime.

I don't cook... I don't know how to clean... there's may be a good chance I'm an alcoholic.

I don't get a chance to do many of my own stunts on 'Buffy' - none of us do. We have amazing stunt people who make us all look really believable and really good.

I don't know that I'm gonna get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there's a good chance I won't. And if I don't, do you honestly believe that Hillary would be tougher on Putin than me?

I don't know if I can handle living in Tokyo. I feel like the culture shock would be so intense, especially with the service industry in America - you can't make up for that. Once you get a chance to travel a lot, you start to realize when that waitress comes back and asks you if you want some more to drink, that's an important moment. Nobody else does that!

I don`t know that I`m going to get along with Vladimir Putin. I hope I do. But there`s a good chance I won`t.

I don’t like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.

I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him the Chief Justiceship.

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

I don't need to control the mind of my viewer. Now this might sound contradictory because I want to make these installations set up an environment that will produce a certain kind of experience in the viewer, but beyond a certain point, I take hands off and leave it up to chance and personal experience. So maybe it's a marriage of control and no control we're talking about where the artist produces the artifact or the environment and then walks away from it, and the second half of the equation is the viewer and their personal history and how they feel about what they're experiencing.

I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.

I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.

I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond

I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

I don't often get a chance to have a frying pan in the show.

I don't think there's much chance that the North Koreans would attack Guam or any other territory out of the blue. They would only counterattack if they felt existentially threatened. The questions is, At want point will North Korea feel it is threatened enough to make such a strike? We don't know that yet.

I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance.

I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.

I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.

If anyone e-mails you something "by George Carlin," there's a 99 percent chance I did not write it. I didn't write "Paradox Of Our Time." I didn't write "George Carlin On Aging." I didn't write a eulogy for my wife after she died. I didn't write the New Orleans thing. I didn't write "I Am A Bad American." None of them. You know what I've decided to do? I'm going to get a little cheap put-it-together-yourself website called NotMe.com.

I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.

If a man goes into business with only the idea of making money, the chances are he won't.

I don't want to be more famous. I enjoy making movies but I enjoy my private life too. As an actor, to do it once in my lifetime I think would be a good experience. But I'll just leave it to fate. I had a chance to work with Ang Lee because of fate.

I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have.

I do think that everybody deserves a second chance.

I enjoyed trying everything. I'd never get a chance to try fencing or archery if it wasn't for this. It was really fun experience.

I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.

If a child has an older sibling involved in an addiction, there is a 90 percent chance that he or she will get involved too.

If a journalist calls you a racist, chances are, all other journalists will call you a racist.

I fancy our chances at the European Championships.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

If, by chance, you find that you are losing hope, tap back into those who inspire you.

If by some bizarre chance there turns out to be a god [...], I'm willing to bet he's an atheist too.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

I feel a flash of grief so intense it almost makes me cry out: not for what I lost, but for the chances I missed.

I feel like everyone who goes to The University of Texas is blessed and lucky to be there because they're getting a chance to be as good as they can be.

I feel so blessed to have had the chance to do this job [ U.S. Solicitor General] in this moment in our history. It's been an incredible thing.