Chance Quotes
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I believe the calculation of the quantity of probability might be improved to a very useful and pleasant speculation, and applied to a great many events which are accidental, besides those of games; only these cases would be infinitely more confused, as depending on chances which the most part of men are ignorant of.
John Arbuthnot
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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
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Men of Oregon, I invite you to become students of your events. Running, one might say, is basically an absurd past-time upon which to be exhausting ourselves. But if you can find meaning, in the kind of running you have to do to stay on this team, chances are you will be able to find meaning in another absurd past-time: life.
Bill Bowerman
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Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.
Nicki Minaj
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On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.
Sanjeev Bhaskar
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As your reputation gets bigger, the gaps and chances to go through them get smaller.
William Aitken
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All I can say is Kerry Collins is an outstanding quarterback. As a matter of fact I spoke with Kerry just before I came down here. He is excited about moving forward next year. ... I think he has a chance to be great for us.
Art Shell
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The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy Rooney
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Taking delight in my family, my time in nature, and in the chance to do work that I find endlessly fascinating and rewarding. My smile grows even bigger when I think about how lucky I am to have such delights be part of my everyday life.
Barbara Fredrickson
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If, of course, one builds into the concept of an 'individual' all that Professor Hayek does in his Road To Serfdom, Individualism and Economic Order and many other works, which is, to put it briefly, the whole of laisser-faire economic theory, then plainly man as such a programmed predator has very little interest in being fraternal, or very little chance.
Bernard Crick
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Men Wanted for Dangerous Expedition: Low Wages for Long Hours of Arduous Labour under Brutal Conditions; Months of Continual Darkness and Extreme Cold; Great Risk to Life and Limb from Disease, Accidents and Other Hazards; Small Chance of Fame in Case of Success.
Ernest Shackleton
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The chances of running out of yarn on a project are directly related to the difficulty that you will have getting more.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
