Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Missionary life is simply a chance to die.

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.

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

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.

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

... 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.

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

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

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

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 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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

Never give a bureaucrat a chance to say no.

Nature's noblemen are everywhere,--in town and out of town, gloved and rough-handed, rich and poor. Prejudice against a lord, because he is a lord, is losing the chance of finding a good fellow, as much as prejudice against a ploughman because he is a ploughman.

Never again will we have this good a chance as we now have to find an enduring place for ourselves within the natural systems that keep us alive. It's a sweet spot in history. That's why this is such a critical time.

Never be afraid to love, not even when there's a chance you're not being loved in return.

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Never resign. There's always a chance your opponent may drop dead before he mates you.

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If they are not there the first time you need them, chances are you won't be needing them again.

Never act upon wishful thinking. Act without checking the facts, and chances are that you will be swept away along with the mob.

Never pass up the chance to sit down or go to the bathroom.

Never miss a chance to shut up

Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Next time, please pay a fair price for the services you depend on. Those have a better chance of surviving the bubbles.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

Nobody gives you a chance, you got to take chances.

No, a euro referendum will not be part of a government programme if we get the chance to form one.

No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

No human being will ever know the truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even know they had done so.

No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

Nokia was number one for 14 years and still has the chance to be so again.