Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'

I always thought that there was a really good chance that I wasn't going to get married.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

I always think it's better to take your time and go through a lot of ideas - and dismiss a lot of ideas - before figuring out where to land. It's a good way to care for your audience, too. If you spend hours and hours and days and weeks coming up with the ending, then there's a chance the fans won't figure it out on their own.

I always wanted to do a movie, because I love the movies. They give you a chance to have an intimacy with your audience that is different from stand up. With movies, you can bring the audience in with a close up, and emote in a different way.

I am about as relaxed a guy as it gets. I like sitting on my couch, watching shows, sitting by the fire pit. I like to play golf, but I don't have a chance to play it often. Playstation. Xbox, but I'm about as boring a guy as you'll ever meet. I could sit on this couch from the time the day starts to the time the day ends.

I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.

I am glad that I was given the chance. I knew I could still play at a high level.

I am living my real life, this is it. Now is now, and if I waited to be happier, waited to have fun, waited to do the things that I know I ought to do, I might never get the chance.

I am merely asking for a first chance to live my life outside the [U.S. Disciplinary Barracks] as the person I was born to be.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.

I am the Earl of Ravensmoor. And you are? (Sparhawk) Totally freaking out. (Taryn) Tis a most peculiar name, milady. Are you by chance Welsh? (Sparhawk)

I assure you I will not miss the chance to show you that you were right when you voted for me.

I become an actress to do things that scare the sh*t out of me and I felt like I didn't stand a chance to get this part because people have preconceived notions about me, but if they gave me the part, I would do everything in my power to not screw it up.

I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.

I believe from what I can see there is a good chance the shift will happen in humanity before it is too late.

I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

I believe men and women are the same and that women should be given an equal chance to serve God with men.

I belong a Yankee. I'm really happy that I got the chance to sign a good contract, and really happy that I got the chance to stay with the Yankees. Going elsewhere, I was going to hear the offers, but the Yankees made it really tough.

I believe that the internet as an open platform for distribution could be a great chance for the diversity of film production.

[...] Ich bin kein anhänger der Behauptung, daß Maschinen kreativ seien. Jederman, der dies sein sollte, muß jedoch beschreiben, woher die Intuition der Maschinen für eine Kreation kommt. Ich vermute, daß Zufallsgeneratoren dabei eine wichtige Rolle spielen müssen.

I can feel it... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

I can comprehend Alekhine's combinations well enough; but where he gets his attacking chances from and how he infuses such life into the very opening - that is beyond me.

I can say is if anyone gets a chance to work with [Dr.]Dre, it's a moment you will always take with you throughout your career. And as of right now, the Compton album is the only thing to talk about.

I can't really recreate or reconstruct exactly how or from where any of my characters originate, young or old, though chances are at least decent that once I name and begin to know them, young or old, I can then attempt to reveal each as psychologically complex and nuanced, and to speak through them, as William Matthews says, "What it feels like to be human.

I can't stand people who say 'I told you so.' That's worse than somebody coming up and eating your dinner before you have a chance to sit down.

I confidently predict the collapse of capitalism and the beginning of history. Something will go wrong in the machinery that converts money into money, the banking system will collapse totally, and we will be left having to barter to stay alive. Those who can dig in their garden will have a better chance than the rest. I'll be all right; I've got a few veg.

I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

I couldn't chance failing in New York yet, letting the city fail me. It was the only place I knew I belonged. If I couldn't survive there, I would have no place else to go.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

I cry every chance I get.

I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams.

I didn't want to be a headshot and get a chance to go compete to sing-that's not me.

I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

I'd love to get a chance to talk shop with Joss Whedon. That's pretty high up there on the list.

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

I do get one chance to dance [in GoF], I had to dance with Maggie Smith. That was the only dancing experience I had, which was actually quite enough really.

I do feel very American. I think it's something I'm proud of and proud to be by chance born here. Honestly, that's something I think about.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom

I don't believe in taking foolish chances, but nothing can be accomplished if we don't take any chances at all.

I do not believe such a quality as chance exists. Every incident that happens must be a link in a chain.