Chance Quotes

We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.

Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.

Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you.

I had the chance to visit all 56 counties in Montana in my pickup. You can put Washington, D.C., in one corner of our state and put Chicago in the other corner, and that's the size of my congressional district.

We have had a chance to travel to all 56 counties in this state, and I have had the chance to sit around with cups of coffee and having conversations about what matters to Montanans.

It has been an honor and a privilege to have had the chance to come back to Liverpool Football Club as manager.

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.

I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.

A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.

The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam.

Could we have prevented in 100% certainty? I don't think anything is that certain. However, we would have had a very, very good chance for preventing it.

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

No one should be incarcerated for debt or squeezed for money they have no chance of getting their hands on.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

A problem is your chance to do your best.

There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

If you really want to know someone, you must see their emotions off guard. That's how I know Joan Crawford could never have been cruel to her children. I really knew her, when she was still Billie, as she liked to be called in the early days. In a relationship as close as ours, I had the chance to see her in every kind of personal situation.

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

If you give an audience a chance they will do half your acting for you.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.

Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.

Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

I realized that improvisers should probably always have time off. But musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute - unless something drastic occurs.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

Honestly, I'm on the road so much that I never really get a chance to go to baseball games.

Everything in my career is my decision - every picture, every outfit. You get one chance at this, and I never saw myself as being a puppet.

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.

Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

I think 2tor has a chance of remaking higher ed in a really great way. If we do that, those investors will do well.

I think most actors jump at the chance to do something where the camera's on them all the time.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.