Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

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.

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 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 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 always great to have another chance at something.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

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.

It's our last chance. No. No, I can't... I, no, I need to believe that it isn't our last chance... Eleanor? Can you hear me? I need you to believe it, too.

It's one that still happens, actually... forgetting a part of a difficult piece. Usually, the chances of it happening are directly proportional to how quiet and attentive the audience is.

It's our last chance [November 8, 2016]. And that includes Supreme Court justices and Second Amendment. Remember that.

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.

It's so hard to actually get the money to make your movie. When you actually have the chance to do it, you have to be absolutely ruthless in order to make the best movie you can make.

It's simple - I love food. I am travelling all-year round, so I have the chance to eat every food possible, so I am really lucky with that.

Its so important to understand your good attendance ups your chances of graduating.

It’s the combination of improbability with an independently given pattern that discredits chance.

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

It's the chance of a lifetime in a lifetime of chance, and it's high time you joined in the dance.

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 only when we're relaxed that the thing way down deep in all of us - call it the subconscious mind, the spirit, what you will - has a chance to well up and tell us how we shall go.

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.