Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

Life's more fun when you take the chance that it might end.

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

Lifestyle. Not a word at all, really - rather a wordette. A genuine case of more is less. ... the word life and the word style are, except in rare cases (and chances are that you're not of them), mutually exclusive.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.

Losers take chances; winners make choices.

Louis Pasteur, the great scientist, said "chance favours the prepared mind", which is a posh way of saying 'do your homework', but it's an excellent piece of advice.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

Love's for fools wise enough to take a chance.

Love you more," I said playfully. "Not a chance," Xavier said, fully awake now. "I'm bigger, I can contain more love." "I'm smaller, therefore my love particles are more compressed, which means I can fit more in.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Luck relies on chance, labor on character.

Make chance essential.

Making a show is also economics. Because the irony is, or the shame of it is, you cannot create a show instantaneously. It needs to be massaged. You need to see who is relating to who. How is it working with the audience? You need to give it a chance for the audience to find it, because there are so many outlets. And the audience doesn't know where to go.

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Many leave the labours of half their life to their executors and to chance, because they will not send them abroad unfinished, and are unable to finish them, having prescribed to themselves such a degree of exactness as human diligence can scarcely ontain.

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

Many shining actions owe their success to chance, though the general or statesman receive the applause.

Maybe now it's time to take some chances on TV and push the boundaries with what I can do on television.

Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through

Maybe if you and ten of your friends could pool your savings and borrow some money and actually buy some obscure station in Sonoma, and then take some chances and have some fun.

Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old fillms, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to death.

Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.

Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

Most people talk as if Miami and Bangladesh still have a chance of surviving: most of the scientists I spoke with assume we'll lose them within the century, even if we stop burning fossil fuel in the next decade.

... much seemingly chance variation in human behavior is not due to chance; it is in fact the logical result of a few basic, observable differences in mental functioning.

Mutilated corpses with a chance of afternoon showers. I got dressed and went to work.

My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me.

My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.

My father lived to be 97 and played bridge every day up to the end, so I've got a 50 percent chance of living a long life like him.

My baby she'll take a chance, my baby got a brand new dance, Wango Tango, Wango Tango.

My experience with horses is that they never throw away a chance to go lame.

[My father] was more than apprehensive. He didn't think I stood a chance in hell. He had no confidence in me whatsoever and was convinced that I was going to be coming to him for money when I was 40. We argued about it constantly.

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

My life is a performance for which I was never given any chance to rehearse.

My only solution for the problem of habitual accidents is to stay in bed all day. Even then, there is always the chance that you will fall out.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

Nature is bent on new beginning and death has not a chance of winning.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know, and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such beings.