Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

I thought there was a good chance the fridge was possessed. It was subtle about it, but I had its number. I knew its ways. Oh yes.

I throw down the gauntlet to chance. For example, I prepare the ground for a picture by cleaning my brush over the canvas. Spilling a little turpentine can also be helpful.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

It is a mortifying truth, and ought to teach the wisest of us humility, that many of the most valuable discoveries have been the result of chance rather than of contemplation, and of accident rather than of design.

It is by chance that we met, by choice that we became friends.

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

It is easy to be seen as either a genius or a crank. If you have a Ph.D., at least you somewhat lower the chances that you will be seen as a crank.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

It is impossible to concieve of this immense and wonderful universe as the result of blind chance or necessity.

It is my job to make sure that these kids who are talented get every chance they can and not to be passed over; this is life or death for them.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

It is not about surpassing the masters who preceded us but more about opening new artistic vistas. It is about doing the things they didn't have a chance or the time to do.

It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.

It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

It is possible to produce something that is grammatical either by chance or under the supervision of another. To be proficient in grammar, then, one must both produce what is grammatical and produce it grammatically, that is, in accord with knowledge of grammar in oneself.

It is really weird, things have just been crazy. Everything has happened so quickly I haven't had a chance to think.

It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

I totally should've gone to Hogwarts when I had the chance.

It is still an open question as to whether mankind or insects shall ultimately inherit the earth. It is my opinion that mankind ... has about a 50-50 chance...

It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is beyond our control.

I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically

It's a big deal when you finally get the chance to do the one thing you want to do - need to do - more than anything. It can kind of scare the crap out of you.

It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

It’s all a bit of a gamble, mate. That’s all I can promise you. And we never get to see what that other life would have looked like if we don’t take chances.

It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.

It's always great to have another chance at something.

It's a pity if someone who has a really profoundly potent art to share chooses not to or doesn't fit into this very thin slice of what's desirable and marketable, chances are the public will never get a chance to hear what they're doing.

It's an incredible thing, how you can feel so taken care of by someone and yet feel, also, like you would die or do anything just for the chance to protect him back.

It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.

It's a wonderful feeling that I get a chance to play with some of the best players in the world.

It's better to put yourself out there and get hurt than to never take the chance at all.

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do.

It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.

It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone.

It's hard to be happy for someone when you know deep down they'd kill you if they had the chance.

It's good to give some of the kids a chance for playing time and some confidence. It doesn't do any good to leave starters out there just to beat a team by 60-70 points.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

It's kind of ironic that when you look at the evidence of intelligence and so on, a lot of it is anecdotal. A lot of it is, "Well, we saw this dolphin do this extraordinary thing," or, "We screwed up with our apparatus, and then the dolphins did this." And so it seems to me that the more we can actually watch them doing their thing, the better chance we'll have of making some sense of them.

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

It's lovely to get one successful show - the chances of finding a second one are not so hot.

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it.