Chance Quotes

• Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

  

  Euripides
  • Chance
  • Fighters
  • Prudent

• I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • World
  • Career
  • Drama

• The key for us is to not back down. We have to realize that until the game is over we have a chance to win. Early in the season last year, we would get down by three or four goals and we would let it get to five or six. But at the end of the year we had two one-goal overtime games. It just takes an atmosphere of competing and knowing that you always have a chance.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Game
  • Chance
  • Win

• When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.

  

  Adrienne Barbeau
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

  

  Paul Auster
  • World
  • Existence
  • Unpredictable

• If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Fear
  • Eyes
  • Eye

• I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Worry
  • Chance
  • Take

• I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

  

  Black Francis Pixies
  • Chance
  • Worked
  • Thin

• I think people are looking for a president who has views and who sticks to those views. So, I think Governor Romney, Governor Perry, Governor Huntsman are all terrific candidates. I think we got a chance to elect a real, executive leader.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • People
  • Real
  • Leader

• This is the last chance, and I would like to make a call for negotiations in good will to solve this tragedy.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Chance
  • Tragedy
  • Negotiations

• It was a cherished experience. I feel I got the chance to see the inner workings of the grand order of things. In the overall scheme of things, it proves that men can do about anything they want to if they work hard enough at it, and I knew that I could do it . . . and that leads, of course, to a strong suspicion that everybody else can do it if they want to.

  

  Scott Carpenter
  • Men
  • Enough
  • Suspicion

• I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Why
  • Home

• And I want to say something to the schoolchildren of America who were watching the live coverage of the shuttle's takeoff. I know it is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all part of the process of exploration and discovery. 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. The Challenger crew was pulling us into the future, and we'll continue to follow them.

  

  Ben Lerner
  • Brave
  • Discovery
  • Schoolchildren

• Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Good
  • Chance
  • Improvisation

• In Chess, as it is played by masters, chance is practically eliminated.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Chance
  • Chess
  • Masters

• We need to make sure that there's art in the school. Why? Why should art be in the school? Because if art isn't in a school, then a guy like Steve Jobs doesn't get a chance to really express himself because in order for art to meet technology, you need art.

  

  LL Cool J
  • School
  • Art
  • Why

• Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Persons
  • Names
  • Providence

• You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • May
  • Kind
  • Anger

• Because I have conducted my own operas and love sheep-dogs; because I generally dress in tweeds, and sometimes, at winter afternoon concerts, have even conducted in them; because I was a militant suffragette and seized a chance of beating time to The March of the Women from the window of my cell in Holloway Prison with a tooth-brush; because I have written books, spoken speeches, broadcast, and don't always make sure that my hat is on straight; for these and other equally pertinent reasons, in a certain sense I am well known.

  

  Ethel Smyth
  • Love
  • Reasons
  • Beating

• Got ants in my pants and I need to dance, so big fine mama, come give me a chance.

  

  James Brown
  • Giving
  • Dance
  • Bigs

• Dances have a second and third life. You feel they are never ready. They always have a chance for another life.

  

  Mikhail Baryshnikov
  • Chance
  • Feels
  • Ready

• I thought if I came back early and played well, I would have a chance to make points early. That's still my goal.

  

  Brad Faxon
  • Chance
  • Goal
  • Played

• If you are still breathing, you have a second chance.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Chance
  • Breathing

• Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes. To entrust to chance what is greatest and most noble would be a very defective arrangement.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Art
  • Nature

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