Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

It's time for second chances. It's time to remake the world.

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

It's truly gratifying to see my films reach beyond a familiar public, to get a chance to move new audiences. It's nuts. It's extraordinary.

It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.

It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

It was one of those things where you admire and respect a person, and you watch them for almost your entire life - and Meryl Streep was definitely one of those people that inspired me throughout my career. Having a chance to have a scene with her was pretty unreal.

It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans.

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

I've always believed that you should never, ever give up and you should always keep fighting even when there's only a slightest chance.

I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that's my favorite thing. I know there's somebody out there who hates it.

I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question...' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'

I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.

I've always felt obligated to help those less fortunate than me. It's an obligation that anyone who has a chance to be in the NBA should feel and act upon.

I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.

I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

I've been typecast. People don't want to take a risk or a chance. Quite a few times they've come up to me and say "We want you to do that Russian accent." And I'll be like, "How about if I do an Irish accent or a South African accent," and they don't trust that you can properly pull them off.

I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

I've got a knife and I want to talk to you I've got a prayer and I want to carve it to you I've got no chance, that's why I'm looking to you O Lord, ride with me

I've got like a weird bond with horses. I'm kind of a horse whisperer, I don't know what it is. I'm not great on a horse. I'm getting better, but I'm not brilliant. So yeah, I've spent a lot of time with horses. They're great creatures, I love them. I do love riding them when I get the chance to.

I've got to take chances and get out there. What are you going to do, sit home and knit? I don't knit.

I've never been very good at leaving things behind. I tried, but I have always left fragments of myself there too, like seeds awaiting their chance to grow.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

I've had the chance to work with some really good filmmakers. It's put me in a situation where I've been surrounded by great actors, and for me it's been a lot about standing in the background and watching people work.

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

I've wished for things and never really had the chance...It's time to stop dreaming and do something about it. You've got to know what you want, then...go.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

I've worked with collage a lot. And there's this chance thing that happens - you don't always control things. Why did you find this today and not this? But you've got this thing, and you make it work. It's the way life is, I suppose. Whatever happens, you deal with it.

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.

I want to win, I want to win everything. If I have a chance to win, why not?

I was always a believer in stamping on my opponent if I got him down, at Wimbledon or anywhere else. I never wanted to give him the chance to get up.

I was a freshman All-American, and I tore my ACL in the third game. But God has a plan for everything. I had a chance to turn away from Him in that situation or draw closer to Him. I decided to draw closer to Him, and came back stronger from it.

I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.

I was a relationship retard. I kicked, shoved, and punched people out of my life, so they never had a chance to hurt me.

I was given a chance and I took it.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

I was Europe's last chance.

I was disappointed if I didn't have a chance to win a game, and if I had the chance and didn't do it.

I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

I would have given you the world if you had given me the chance.