Chance famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.
-- A. P. Herbert -
The only morality in a cruel world is chance.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.
-- Aaron Levie -
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
-- Adam Arkin -
Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,
-- Adam Gilchrist -
Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
-- Adam Hochschild -
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 -
The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The designs we see in nature are not the result of chance. They rise naturally, spontaneously, because they enhance access to flow…
-- Adrian Bejan -
Sometimes the course of our lives depends on what we do or don't do in a few seconds, a heartbeat, when we either seize the opportunity, or just miss it. Miss the moment and you never get a chance again.
-- Aidan Chambers -
Keep trying until you have no more chances left.
-- Aimee Carter -
I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.
-- Al Gore -
John Cross is feeling very boyish about Arsenal's chances
-- Alan Brazil -
I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances
-- Alan Brazil -
We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.
-- Alan Hirsch -
Failure comes when you don’t listen. You can’t put something out there and assume it’s great. It’s up to us to make sure we’re listening to improve our chances for success-if not this time, next time.
-- Alan Lewis -
He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.
-- Alan Parry -
I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.
-- Alan Shearer -
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
-- Albert Camus -
The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed—such a probabilistic, uncertain world.
-- Albert Ellis -
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny.
-- Aldous Huxley -
Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better
-- Aldous Huxley -
I had a marriage that I came to in the same way everybody else comes to a marriage. We all take chances when we get married.
-- Alec Baldwin -
Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.
-- Alec Wilkinson -
For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.
-- Aleister Crowley -
Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.
-- Alex Garland -
We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it. So there is a chance that the best of all possible mathematics will be created out of physicists' attempts to describe nature.
-- Alexander Markovich Polyakov -
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
-- Alexander Woollcott -
Love you more," I said playfully. "Not a chance," Xavier said, fully awake now. "I'm bigger, I can contain more love." "I'm smaller, therefore my love particles are more compressed, which means I can fit more in.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
Bon chance, mon ami," Dante called softly. Levet allowed himself a small smile. A vampire who could speak French. He couldn't be all bad.
-- Alexandra Ivy -
Chance does nothing that has not been prepared beforehand.
-- Alexis de Tocqueville -
A hopeless man sees difficulties in every chance, but a hopeful person sees chances in every difficulty.
-- Ali ibn Abi Talib -
Trouble is just like love, after all; it comes in unannounced and takes over before you've had a chance to reconsider, or even to think.
-- Alice Hoffman -
Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.
-- Alice Thomas Ellis -
I know, in my soul, that to eat a creature who is raised to be eaten, and who never has a chance to be a real being, is unhealthy. It's like...you're just eating misery. You're eating a bitter life.
-- Alice Walker -
It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.
-- Ally Condie -
The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again.
-- Alois Brunner -
Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Missionary life is simply a chance to die.
-- Amy Carmichael -
The great thing about taking big chances when you're younger is you have less to lose, and you don't know as much. So you take big swings.
-- Amy Poehler -
A war regarded as inevitable or even probable, and therefore much prepared for, has a very good chance of eventually being fought.
-- Anais Nin -
I can live with losing, I can't live without taking my chance.
-- Andre Agassi -
People see you on screen and they like you, but they never really get a chance to meet you. When you're doing music, you know you have to go sit at in-stores, and you're actually in the street, so there's more of a hands-on kind of thing.
-- Andre Benjamin -
(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.
-- Andreas Feininger -
It was never easy to look into the future, but it is possible and we should not miss our chance.
-- Andrei Linde -
As long as you can walk the street and you know there's a tomorrow, there's always that chance. That's how I've always been. I've always had complete belief that I would make something out of myself again, because to me, it's always been about accomplishment.
-- Andrew Dice Clay -
We're given second chances every day of our life. We don't usually take them, but they're there for the taking.
-- Andrew Greeley -
When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.
-- Andrew Lau -
If there was time on the clock there was a chance.
-- Andy Geiger -
For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.
-- Ang Lee -
I hope people don't compare 2D and 3D because 3D's new, it's unfair to compare to 2D which is really sophisticated, even when we're jaded about it. 3D just began, give it a chance, let the equipment and projection system catch up and be better, let the price go down, let more filmmakers get a hold of it more easily.
-- Ang Lee -
The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true
-- Ann Brashares -
Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.
-- Ann Rule -
If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.
-- Anne Archer -
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
-- Anne Bradstreet -
Quiet is a blessed gift. In this frantic world how we must cherish every moment of it, and carve it out for ourselves every chance we get.
-- Anne Ortlund -
It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.
-- Anne Rice -
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
-- Anne Tyler -
And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen...
-- Antal Szerb -
The only compensation for the artist is the chance to feed hungry hearts.
-- Anzia Yezierska -
Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.
-- Ari Fleischer -
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to mention our crockery and our woolens!
-- Aristophanes -
Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
-- Aristotle -
Health is a matter of choice, not a mystery of chance
-- Aristotle -
If you think back over your experiences, the chances are that you will find the finest moments in your life were those when you completely forgot yourself.
-- Arlene Francis -
I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
-- Arnold Palmer -
The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chance of disillusionment.
-- Art Spander -
Among the aimless, unsuccessful or worthless, you often hear talk about 'killing time.' The man who is always killing time is really killing his own chances in life. While the man who is destined to success is the man who makes time live by making it useful.
-- Arthur Brisbane -
The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle -
I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.
-- Arthur Levitt Jr -
Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for what might have been
-- Arthur Ransome -
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are, by their very nature, highly uncertain, precarious, ephemeral and subject to chance.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
I want either less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.
-- Atifete Jahjaga -
Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
They decided to let immigrants in and I am an immigrant. They gave us a chance to participate in this country's life and I took it.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
The unexpected cannot guarantee success, but it guarantees the best chance of success.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.
-- Bai Ling -
Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter
-- Baltasar Gracian -
Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.
-- Barack Obama -
Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.
-- Barbara Brown Taylor -
Taking chances almost always makes for happy endings.
-- Barbara Corcoran -
I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
-- Barry Bostwick -
I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
-- Barry Levinson -
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
-- Bart Starr -
Nothing in nature is by chance... Something appears to be chance only because of our lack of knowledge.
-- Baruch Spinoza -
You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.
-- Bear Grylls -
If I do not speak in a language that can be understood there is little chance for a dialogue.
-- Bell Hooks -
The more guidance a central bank can provide the public about how policy is likely to evolve the greater the chance that market participants will make appropriate inferences.
-- Ben Bernanke -
If diplomacy has any chance to work, it must be coupled with a credible military threat.
-- Benjamin Netanyahu -
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
-- Bernard DeVoto -
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
-- Bernard M. Oliver -
There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.
-- Bernardo Bertolucci -
The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can
-- Bert McCracken -
Forgiveness, which is the place that every story turns, the chance we give each other.
-- Beth Kephart -
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.
-- Beverly Cleary
