Best 2144 quotes in «chance quotes» category

Those who seek to profit by division don't stand a chance.

Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.

Those who won't take a chance don't have a chance.

Though I would have liked my chances in a rematch in 1998 if I were better prepared, it was clear then that computer superiority over humans in chess had always been just a matter of time.

To be a winner you must want to win but must know of the chance of losing and must not fear of it.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

To be honest, I never really considered myself to be too much of an actress. So, whenever I get the chance to do music, I'm always, like, just in it. It's like, 'Oh my God, I finally get to do this. I'm so happy.'

Today, not starting is far, far worse than being wrong. If you start, you've got a shot at evolving and adjusting to turn your wrong into a right. But if you don't start, you never get a chance.

To be successful, one must take chances.

To have the chance of being loved we have to take a chance on being destroyed inside

To know that there's a good chance that this is something that could potentially be around well after I leave this planet... it's a good feeling.

To have big success, you must have big dreams, and you must be willing to take a chance.

Tomorrow is not a promise, but a chance.

To let sorrow go his own way one gives happiness a chance

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I don’t deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I’m not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

To put more American personnel in harm's way without a realistic chance for success is something I'm not in favor of. And a realistic chance for success depends upon having the Iraqis with the will and the ability to fulfill their share of the bargain, and so far they have not.

Tonight we had our chances but we ran out of talent.

To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

To strip yourself from a lot of the things around you that make you comfortable is a really challenging thing that most of us don't do or don't get a chance to do.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

Treat your audience like poets and geniuses and they’ll have the chance to become them.

Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance

To the sane and free it will hardly seem necessary to cross the continent in search of wild beauty, however easy the way, for they find it in abundance wherever they chance to be.

Turn soft and lovely anytime you have the chance.

Turn down a chance to feel magic for fear of a little dirt?

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Twenty-eight to 31 is the tough period. You have to be really careful because it's so cataclysmic, so life-altering. People do really dramatic things like get married, or they'll get divorced. Your chances of committing suicide go way up. It's basically psychic death. You see the signs of it around 27, and you're still on the out-end of it around 31. Everyone I've talked to who's gone through that and come out the other side walks out of it like, "MY LIFE IS GREAT".

Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

Truly great people in history never wanted to be great for themselves. All they wanted was the chance to do good for others and be close to God.

Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all.

Undeveloped, the whole thing,tossed into a box before we really had a chance to know what we had, and that's why we broke up.

Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

Veganism gives people an actual chance to DO SOMETHING instead of adding more cement (good intentions) to pave that road to Hell.

Wasn't that a wonderful thing that I had a chance to work with more great actors, big stars, than just about anyone in the history of Hollywood? And some days I didn't know with whom I'd be standing face-to-face, and I was so impressed because they were all really wonderful people. And when you work with Burgess Meredith, Frank Gorshin, George Sanders as Mr. Freeze, it's a wonderful experience.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?

Variety is very, very good. Going from medium to medium, if you get the chance to do it, from theater to television to film, which are all distinctly different, keeps me sharp.

We all want the chance to express the very best of ourselves and to be challenged to keep reaching for more. Our time at work affords us this chance - not the only chance, to be sure, but, given that we're there forty or fifty hours a week, it's one of the best.

Watch out for emergencies. They are your big chance.

We are mandating forces to hold regular neighbourhood beat meetings. These meetings will give local people the chance to scrutinise the work of their local police.

We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance.

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

We all got up to dance. Oh, but we never got the chance!