Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

Why had I been so afraid? I had not loved enough. I'd been busy, busy, so busy, preparing for life, while life floated by me, quiet and swift as a regatta...I had had all my time, all my chances. I could never do it again, never make it right. I had not loved enough...I had not passed up all my chances to give love or receive it, and I had the future, at least, to try to do better.

Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can, unthinkingly.

Why? Why did you do this to me?" "He's going to come after me. He won't just kill me. He'll go after you, too." "That's right, He can't take the chance. I didn't tell you about it...why?" He repeated on a sob? "Why did you-" You wouldn't take me to New York" His mouth dropped open "NEW YORK?" he shouted. "You did all this because I wouldn't take, you to New York!

Wij wezen allles wat kopie of beschrijving was af en lieten het elementaire en het spontane in volle vrijheid reageren. Omdat de plaatsing van de vlakken en de kleuren en de verhoudingen van deze vlakken louter op toeval schenen te berusten, verklaarde ik dat deze werken, zoals in de natuur, gerangschikt waren "volgens de wetten van het toeval", toeval dat voor mij alleen maar een beperkt onderdeel vormde van een onpeilbare reden van bestaan, van een orde die in zijn totaliteit ontoegankelijk was.

Wind is a plant's only chance to make music.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.

Without a reading habit, children simply do not have a chance.

Without music, there is not the faintest chance [Bob Dylan] words would now be garlanded as they are.

Without organization and leadership toward a realistic goal, there is no chance of realizing more than a small percentage of your potential.

With social media, you have the chance to be the Lutherans that Luther imagined.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

With writing, we have second chances.

Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance, and make a religion of surrendering to it.

Women can feel inspired by the story. People who haven't been traditionally given a chance to use their skills or shine are given a chance, and they prevail.

Women have a better chance to secure freedom and protect themselves from violence, from abuse, from injustice, if they are well-educated and know their rights.

Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!

Working on my own gave me a chance to take my time and experiment a lot.

Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.

Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader.

Writing gave me a second chance - not to change things, but to savor them. That is a great gift.

Yes." His gaze grew distant. "If I'd have the chance, if my position permitted, I would have pleaded with her not to accept the mission because of the danger, and because I couldn't bear the thought of..." "Of losing her?

Writing can be bad and still be part of something good. That 'art' is really 'artifact,' Exhibit A, Exhibit B, of something else: a person's whole experience and life. And that always there's the chance that this will fail. That things will not work out.

Y a-t-il plus belle parodie de l'éthique de la valeur que de se soumettre avec toute l'intransigeance de la vertu aux données du hasard ou à l'absurdité d'une règle?

You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.

You can be obsessed by remorse all your life, not because you chose the wrong thing- you can always repent, atone : but because you never had the chance to prove to yourself that you would have chosen the right thing.

You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful. If not, it can't be helped.

You can bet - a good chance of Hillary [Clinton], a good chance of [Donald] Trump - but not 100% in either case.

You can call me whatever you like. Last chance for cake!

You can drastically increase your chances for success if you try lots of things and bring the best forward.

You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere.

You can have the other words-chance, luck, coincidence, serendipity. I'll take grace. I don't know what it is exactly, but I'll take it.

You can not achieve success without the risk of failure. If you are not afraid to fail, than you have a chance, but you are never going to get there unless you risk it.

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself. If life teaches you nothing else, know this for sure: When you get the chance, go for it.

You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances. (105)

You can very often start a new season with a lot more viewers than you had, leaving off the season before. It's a chance to pull the show into a train station, stop the train, and let all these new viewers on, so you can tell a new story. In some ways, a second season is a chance to tell a brand new story that you can wrap up, at the end of it.

You could say that all of life is a series of last chances.

You could be disqualified for a job [at Harvard] if you were either smart or Jewish or Keynesian. So what chance did this smart, Jewish, Keynesian have?

You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

You enhance your chances for success when you understand that your yearning power is more important than your earning power

You go and you buy a lottery ticket. You've got just as much chance of getting struck by lightning as you do of winning the lottery.

You have a chance of learning -- if you want to and youre not arrogant.

You have a chance to save lives! If you don't take it, you may regret it!

You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.

You had only one chance for a signature in life, but most people left no impression.