Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.

For most of my life I've been a listener. At least in the beginning, I think the reason I listened so intently was to have a chance of hearing the train before it ran over me.

For the good are always the merry, / Save by an evil chance,/ And the merry love the fiddle,/ And the merry love to dance: / And when the folk there spy me,/ They will all come up to me, / With,”Here is the fiddler of Dooney!” / And dance like a wave of the sea.

For the life of me, I did not understand how he[Atticus] could sit there in cold blood and read a newspaper when his only son stood an excellent chance of being murdered with a Confederate Army relic.

For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made a push at chance and sufferance.

Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance.

Found objects, chance creations, ready-mades (mass-produced items promoted into art objects, such as Duchamp's "Fountain"-urinal as sculpture) abolish the separation between art and life. The commonplace is miraculous if rightly seen.

Four elements make up the climate of war: danger, exertion, uncertainty and chance.

Freedom is not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it means compelling Fortune to enter the lists on equal terms.

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

From a purely physical standpoint she didn't have a chance, but her attitude was that death was better than capitulation.

From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

From the coaches on down, especially Jim Corsi whose been a great supporter, a true friend who really cares about his players and allowed me the chance to develop.

From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much: the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

Future is an unknown country which requires tough visas for anyone to enter. Not all of us will get the chance to visit it.

Generally, a desirable, practically attainable idea, suggested in prophecy, has a chance of forcing itself into reality by its very existence.

Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.

[George Saunders] is very precise about what he is doing. There isn't a thing left to chance.

Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life.

Give everyone a chance to have a piece of the pie. If the pie's not big enough, make a bigger pie.

Give, and you may keep your friend it you lose your money; lend, and the chances are that you lose your friend if ever you get back your money.

Give Donald Trump a chance. Be there for him. Come together as a nation.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

Given the chance, people will buy from people who care.

Given a choice between a folly and a sacrament, one should always choose the folly—because we know a sacrament will not bring us closer to god and there’s always the chance that a folly will.

Give your mind a chance to travel through foreign languages.

Given a chance, I would like to work with Aishwarya Rai Bachchan because she's a versatile actor.

Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace.

Give the paint a chance. Give the brush a chance.

Giving every child a chance to reach their full potential is the best work anyone can do

Given the nature of market, the chance of a crash is always greater than the chance of an overnight runaway euphoria.

God casts the die, not the dice.

God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.

God's a busy guy. He don't have time to micromanage. What are the chances he heard that? It's early in the morning. He's probably having breakfast with Mrs. God.

God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach.

Going to a new team is like going to a new high school. Nobody knows you. It's a chance to rebuild your image.

Gotta take a risk, take a chance, make a change, and break away. I won't forget the place I came from.

Good memories are our second chance at happiness.

Good developers like seeing their products sell in large quantities. They enjoy the competition of doing a better job than the other company, especially if the other company has more people on the project and they're entrenched and people are saying that we don't have a chance of getting in there and... and doing well.

Governments must give to all those who have hit life's hurdles the chance to rebuild and have a future.

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Greyson Chance says it's gold, so it must be gold.

Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.