Chance Quotes

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

I just loved Bette Davis and the fact that I had a chance to work with her [on the 1979 TV movie Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter] was momentous.

Pop Idol, X Factor, Fame Academy, there's so much talent out there. It's great to see people getting the chance to show their potential

The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.

All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

Greyson Chance says it's gold, so it must be gold.

Sometimes you have the chance to do one movie, make it the best you can, put everything in it.

Our society pushes "family" because once people have families, the chance of becoming active lessens.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!

I'm legally unable to ride motorcycles. It's a contract that I have with my life insurance, so whenever I get a chance to do a movie and ride a bike I go for it.

It is the simple hypotheses of which one must be most wary; because these are the ones that have the most chances of passing unnoticed.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

So the need for another economic model is urgent, and if the climate justice movement can show that responding to climate change is the best chance for a more just economic system.

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

The majority of casino players leave too much to chance when playing in a casino. To put it bluntly, they don't have a clue as to how to play.

I don't think you get many chances to break the mold of who you are.

I wasn't thinking of being the greatest. But I knew I had a chance.

About medications that are drunk or applied to wounds it is worth learning from everyone; for people do not discover these by reasoning but by chance, and experts not more than laymen.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

I like change, like anybody. You don't want to keep doing the same thing because then it gets harder to take chances, be creative, and feel inspired when you're doing the same thing.

Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.

But at the beginning it was clear to me that concrete poetry was peculiarly suited for using in public settings. This was my idea, but of course I never really much got the chance to do it.

There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing.

It used to irritate a friend of mine that when he went to confession he never got the chance to tell the priest the good things he had done.

Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.

Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew.

In great affairs we ought to apply ourselves less to creating chances than to profiting from those that offer.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Home is where the heart is, until we get a chance to bury it. Home is where the heart pulled the nails out of its feet, and fled.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous we can be.

A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.

The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational species.

People will complain that they don't want to wait around for lightning to strike, but why not? If you invest yourself in chance, the potential for disappointment is pretty low.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

Give the instruments a chance - their sounds are quite beautiful.

I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

Love is an active construction, and choice, not just an encounter that happens by chance.

The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.

If you want to be successful at being yourself, you’re going to have to take a chance on not being like everyone else.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.

That power Which erring men call Chance.