Chance Quotes
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Every new party, every new bunch of people, and I start thinking that maybe this is my chance.That I'm going to be normal this time. A new leaf. A fresh start. But then I find myself at the party, thinking, Oh, yeah. This again.
Carol Rifka Brunt -
Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.
Nicholai Olivia Rothschild
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If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
Paul Harvey -
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Jules Verne -
The last thing I want to do is hurt the club's chances of winning. I'm used to playing the game a certain way and at a certain level. When I can no longer do that, I'll quit.
Chipper Jones -
I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.
Catherine Crier -
Take a chance. Don’t be afraid of what you don’t know. And don’t fall in love with Plan A.
Huma Abedin -
Always try to hire people who are smarter than you. Always take a chance on better, even if it seems like a potential threat.
Edwin Catmull
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
Thomas Carlyle -
A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.
George Eliot -
My favorite actors are actors who are enigmatic and mysterious and never make the obvious choice in terms of the projects they do or who they work with or their craft. But I think that the less I know about an actor, the more chance I have of allowing their own persona to kind of slip away so I can get completely lost in the character they're playing, and the more that people think they know about your personal life, the more difficult it becomes to preserve that.
Scarlett Johansson -
I always like it at a war. There is always the chance that you will get up the next morning and be killed and not have to write.
Ernest Hemingway -
This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.
Cathy Freeman -
Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.
Regina Brett
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I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.
Art Pepper -
We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.
Sterling Marlin -
Everybody should have a fair deal; everybody should have the chance to life in this world. If we were evolved as human beings, we would hopefully be able to alleviate suffering in the world.
Vivienne Westwood -
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
William Faulkner -
We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. We could be sitting in a monastery somewhere in Japan. We could be out sailing. Some of the team could be playing golf. They could be running other companies. And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it. And we think it is.
Steve Jobs -
The money is not important for me, just the probability of a good chance to win races.
Gerhard Berger
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As I would soon learn myself, cleaning up what a parent leaves behind stirs up dust, both literal and metaphorical. It dredges up memories. You feel like you're a kid again, poking around in your parents' closet, only this time there's no chance of getting in trouble, so you don't have to be so sure that everything gets put back exactly where it was before you did your poking around. Still, you hope to find something, or maybe you fear finding something, that will completely change your conception of the parent you thought you knew.
Roz Chast -
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor in all evolutionary events, and the birth and development of our planetary system were not exceptions.
Eric Chaisson -
America can only live up to its potential when each and every American has the chance to live up to your potential, too.
Hillary Clinton -
At the end of the day, the only thing I can do is keep working on it, keep giving myself chances, and it's going to happen.
Sergio Garcia