Chance Quotes
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Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.
Carrie Fisher
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It's always nice when you get a chance to actually work with the other actor. It just brings the scene to life, in a way that's not as easy to replicate on your own.
Elijah Wood
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But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
Erykah Badu
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Failure is part of discovering the problem you need to be working on. If, as an entrepreneur, you are afraid to fail or to admit the failure of your efforts, then you completely lose any chance at being able to adapt and succeed at finding the problem that needs solving.
Caterina Fake
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I was in an adolescent psychology class at Citadel when the guy said, if you had a mother who was beaten, there's a great chance you'll beat your wife. And if you were beaten as a child, there's a terrific chance you're going to be a child-beater.
Terry Gross
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If you can get through the first round you have a good chance of getting into the next one.
Nigel Worthington
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There is no one here who is demanding a free gift, we all work very diligently and very hard and what we want to see is equality across the globe and an equal chance for everyone.
Darren Sammy
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What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.
Virginia Woolf
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I did a lot of bad stuff from the age of 18 to 21. Those are days when everyone is usually in college doing a lot of stupid things. But since I was playing baseball, I was in the spotlight. I take full responsibility for doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. And I appreciate the second chance that the Twins are giving me.
Delmon Young
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This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.
Cathy Freeman
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I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
Jimmy Carter
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Shaving is a way to start the workday by ritually not cutting your throat when you've the chance.
Ben Lerner
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Everything is chance, or nothing is chance. If I believed the first, I would be unable to live on, but I am not yet fully convinced of the second.
Etty Hillesum
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Any time someone doesn't like one on the first run, I hope they will give it another shot. At least we'll get another chance. But I do feel, in my approach, I am not really a minimalist. I don't like to leave out ideas that I think could add something to the story. Sometimes, you can't quite pick up on all of it in one sitting. It's not by design. But maybe it's a side effect of my approach.
Wes Anderson
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Sometimes and in particular dealing with a dictator, the only chance of peace is a readiness for war.
Tony Blair
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I think for Wes Anderson and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.
Owen Wilson
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When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.
William Butler Yeats
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On a personal level, I've seen a lot in my time as attorney general, but few things have affected me as greatly as my visit to Ferguson. I had the chance to meet with the family of Michael Brown. I spoke to them not just as attorney general but as a father of a teenage son myself.
Eric Holder
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Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.
David Devant
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I was happy to hear the manager say that and for him to introduce me to the team. It means he has confidence in me. He’s given me the chance to prove myself, but I wasn’t expecting it to happen so quickly because I was working with the youth team.
Kelechi Iheanacho
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I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.
Danny Bautista
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Rebecca and Christina are probably two of the best girls in the state; there's a very good chance they'll place in the top five at states. Those girls are just great leaders. I think we're going to win it all. The girls we have are good, they have two great leaders to follow.
Bob Myers
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Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier...
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The chance to be both artistically appreciated and commercially appreciated... That's what you hope for.
Gerard Butler