Chance Quotes

• They have been a terrorist organization. They have to change their methods and they have to accept that violence is incompatible with democracy.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Violence
  • Chance
  • Terrorist Organization

• But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it’s not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances.

  

  Will Schwalbe
  • People
  • Helping
  • Numbers

• At the dressing table, every woman has a chance to be an artist, and art, as Aristotle said, 'completes what nature left unfinished.'

  

  Sofia Villani Scicolone
  • Art
  • Artist
  • Dressings

• Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.

  

  Tyron Woodley
  • Chance
  • Easy
  • Fairs

• The opponent has the chance to win the match, and I have a chance to win the match. It's open, and I have just to do everything I can there.

  

  Simona Halep
  • Chance
  • Win
  • Match

• I'm sixty-eight, I cry every chance I can.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • Chance
  • Cry
  • Sixty-eight

• He knew that we gave constant lip service to the dictates of safety and howled like Christians condemned to the arena if any compromise were made of it. He knew we were seekers after ease, suspicious, egotistic, and stubborn to a fault. He also knew that none of us would have continued our careers unless we had always been, and still were, helpless before this opportunity to take a chance.

  

  Ernest K. Gann
  • Opportunity
  • Safety
  • Careers

• Enjoy yourself, drink, call the life you live today your own; but only that, the rest belongs to chance.

  

  Euripides
  • Rest
  • Chance
  • Enjoy

• Prospecting for oil is a dynamic art... The greatest single element in all prospecting, past, present and future, is the man willing to take a chance

  

  Everette Lee DeGolyer
  • Future
  • Present
  • Greatest

• A risk is a chance you take; if it fails you can recover. A gamble is a chance taken; if it fails, recovery is impossible.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Risk
  • Chance
  • Recovery

• Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds, and shall find, me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll. I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

  

  Benjamin E. Sasse
  • Soul
  • Night
  • Tears

• This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Lying
  • Luck
  • Odd

• It's unfair to those kids who don't get to take those good courses and don't get the chance to go to college...

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Kids
  • College
  • Chance

• Great riches come to many men by chance.

  

  Bias of Priene
  • Great
  • Chance
  • Riches

• I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

  

  Moshe Sharett
  • War
  • Independence
  • Given

• One of the challenges you will face is finding a job in our depressed economy, ... In fact, the chances of finding a job are about as good as finding weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi desert -- slim and none, and slim just left the building.

  

  Will Ferrell
  • Challenges
  • Economy
  • Building

• If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.

  

  Mike Weir
  • Money
  • Hurt
  • Winning

• There's a reason why every successful person in Hollywood has like seven or eight projects up in the air at any point. It's like a 90 percent chance for each project that it'll never happen. Every project has about a 10 percent chance of getting made, unless you're like a Quentin Tarantino or somebody who just gets whatever they want to get done. But those are the rare cases.

  

  Ed Brubaker
  • Reason
  • Hollywood
  • Projects

• Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Chance
  • Silence
  • Chaos

• If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.

  

  Bill Burr
  • Country
  • Born
  • East

• The money is not important for me, just the probability of a good chance to win races.

  

  Gerhard Berger
  • Money
  • Chance
  • Win

• This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn’t just a season or a time but a whole world I’d forgotten. I’d never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Night
  • Forgotten

• Choice, not chance, determines destiny.

  

  Charles E. McKenzie
  • Chance
  • Destiny
  • Choice

• Aware that a man has no more chance with a woman, armed with the offensive and defensive weapons of tongue, tears, nails, and bamboo, than in a river with an alligator, I, for the first time in my life, acted prudently, and fled the fight.

  

  Edward John Trelawny
  • Fight
  • Weapons
  • Alligator

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