Chances Quotes
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Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down.
Elaine Scarry
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I like when people take chances.
Josh Homme Queens of the Stone Age
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We'll see after this week. I'm very happy right now to see this team bouncing back and seeing what we can do. If we come out and play good baseball, I'll put our chances up against anybody.
Brad Wilkerson
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I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.
Dalia Mogahed
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America might be the land of second chances, but it ain't the land of third chances.
Michael Finkel
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These same people seem to forget that mother also took a lot of chances with the type of roles she played.
Isabella Rossellini
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Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances.
Mithun Chakraborty
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I'm against gun control. It's not that I like guns, it's just that allowing Americans to have guns will increase the chances that a bunch of rednecks will blow each other's heads off.
Bobcat Goldthwait
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I just want to be able to make a movie that takes some chances. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box.
George Nolfi
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If the team is doing well, there are more chances to win individual prizes.
Isco
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The game was there to be won. We had three five-on-threes and didn't score. That can't happen. We had our chances, but we didn't put them in. Fifty shots against us shouldn't happen, either.
Brian Leetch
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I think it's a very positive first step. He had some real good chances on the power play. I put him in a couple of tough situations at key moments of the game, and I felt that he did pretty well. But let's face it, this is step one. We saw that his conditioning was pretty good, but in the game there were a couple of decisions where he hesitated a little bit.
Bob Hartley
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Life isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke.
Eliot Wigginton
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Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.
Bob Burg
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Ride at any fence hard enough, and the chances are you'll get over. The harder you ride the heavier the fall, if you get a fall; but the greater the chance of your getting over.
Anthony Trollope
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Since reasoning , or inference, the principal subject of logic, is an operation which usually takes place by means of words , and in complicated cases can take place in no other way: those who have not a thorough insight into both the signification and purpose of words, will be under chances, amounting almost to certainty, of reasoning or inferring incorrectly.
John Stuart Mill
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You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.
Michael Koryta
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No soldier outlives a thousand chances.
Erich Maria Remarque
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But I should caution that if you seek to plot out all your moves before you make them—if you put your faith in slow, deliberative planning in the hopes it will spare you failure down the line—well, you’re deluding yourself. For one thing, it’s easier to plan derivative work—things that copy or repeat something already out there. So if your primary goal is to have a fully worked out, set-in-stone plan, you are only upping your chances of being unoriginal.
Edwin Catmull
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Sometimes you have to wait for the right deal. They all seem good, at least at first, and they may make you some quick money. But when the right deal comes, and it fits into your [overall] plan, it's just overwhelming success. Sometimes, with the long-term deals, you have to take a risk if you're going to get a reward. It's exactly like fighting. Sometimes you have to take chances to get that huge win.
Mike Tyson
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I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go.
Adam Lindsay Gordon
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The bigger the movies you're in, the chances are better at getting more diverse roles.
Haaz Sleiman
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What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.
Walt Whitman
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The freedom of America is the freedom to live your own life and take your own chances.
Thomas Sowell