Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

in a woman's womb. another chance. to make the world better.

In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called 'the golden bird'. We have fallen from where we were before. But now we have the chance to rise again. If you see the details of the last five or ten centuries, you will see that India and China have grown at similar paces. Their contributions to global GDP have risen in parallel, and fallen in parallel. Today's era once again belongs to Asia. India and China are both growing rapidly, together. That is why India needs to remain India.

Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.

I never had a plan B. I feel if u have a plan B, you are giving yourself the chance to never accomplish plan A. My plan B was to accomplish plan A.

I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first.

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

Infinite hungers leap no more I in the chance swaying of your dress; and love has changed to kindliness.

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

In pop music, the public usually see the results - the hit records, the Grammy Awards performances, the concert tours - but not all the work that goes into getting into the spotlight. And not everyone realizes that, even if you have a lot of talent, chances are you won't make it.

In Syria, Vladimir pUTIN sees the chance to make millions of refugees and weaponise them. The US has to take a lead in defending the values of the free world.

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable.

In the endgame, an error can be decisive, and we are rarely presented with a second chance.

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

...in the shaping of a life, chance and the ability to respond to chance are everything.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

In this infinite space is placed our universe (whether by chance, by necessity, or by providence I do not now consider).

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.

I only became a novelist because I thought I had missed my chance to become a historian.

I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart, when ever I step on the floor I play for that person. Also, I always know my grandfather's out there watching.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

I shall make it my business to take my chances in the matter of libel suits.

Isabelle was holding an umbrella. It was clear plastic, decorated with decals of colorful flowers. It was one of the girliest things Simon had ever seen, and he didn’t blame Alec for ducking out from under it and taking his chances with the rain.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

I share this view, that Hillary Clinton did not get a fair chance with both media perspectives and the subtleties on the gender discrimination. I think there was in the media particularly there's a zone of protection around Senator Obama on race where none existed on gender.

I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

I smoke marijuana every chance I get.

I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

I so rarely have the chance to field-test anything. Amelie is so conservative about these things -Myrnin

Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

It could be any of a billion Gods. It could be God of the Martians or of the inhabitants of Alpha Centauri. The chance of its being a particular God, Yahweh, the God of Jesus, is vanishingly small - at the least, the onus is on you to demonstrate why you think that's the case.

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

I still love playing music. It was all I ever wanted to do, and I got the chance to do it.

I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.

I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret.

It doesn't matter what your probability of failure is. If there's a 90% chance of failure, there's a 10% chance of changing the world.

I think both of them [Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders] have [chances] because they are not the establishment, not for who they are.

I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've hitherto heard about but haven't had the chance to catch up with.

It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night." "How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night." "No," Reacher said. "If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.