Chance Quotes

Chance often gives us that which we should not have presumed to ask.

Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

It is because of the servility of photography that I am fundamentally contemptuous of this chance invention which will never be an art but which plagiarizes nature by means of optics. (1848)

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

Keep showing up for your side of the job and give genius a chance to do its part.

We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.

God will open up places of service for you as He sees you are ready. Meanwhile, study the Bible and give yourself a chance to grow.

One's first love is always perfect until one meets one's second love.

Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly.

In high school, I didn't get the chance to wrestle varsity until my senior year because I had an older brother who was better than me.

Nothing in this world happens by chance

God always offers us a second chance in life.

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.

Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down

If the pros at Sun had had a chance to fix Java, the world would be a much more pleasant place. This is not secret knowledge. It's just secret to this pop culture.

The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.

I'm not going to single individuals out but Yakubu has missed loads of great chances

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.

If I'm selecting a group, the first thing I look for is a record of achievement . . . If (candidates achieve) in small things, there's a very good chance they'll perform well in big things.

If you're politically correct, chances are you're not coming to one of my shows. I get to go onstage and say things that everybody thinks all the time, but can't say out loud.

The chance for mistakes is about equal to the number of crew squared.

I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.

We are the second oldest state in the Union because too many of our young people are leaving Pennsylvania. They are leaving Pennsylvania behind for opportunities elsewhere.

Not everybody's the perfect person in the world. I mean everyone kills people, murders people, steals from you, steals from me, whatever. I think that people need a second chance.

I'm very surprised at that, yes, because there were many chances for it to be in Germany once the syndication market started and it continually just did not happen.

I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.

The Government chose to give peace a chance. The Government chose to do something to achieve it.

The beauty of Cup football is that Jack always has a chance of beating Goliath.

Love teaches you to care for others. It also gives you your best chance to grow up.

For my second record I had gotten ProTools and started to familiar myself with hard disc recording.

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

It interests me tremendously to make copies... I started it by chance and I find it teaches me things.

I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now.

The dream is a world in which anyone who has anything bad happen to them has a chance of getting their story uploaded, being seen, being watched.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

And while there is life there is always the chance that something might happen.

I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.

You cannot by any chance fail if you persevere.

I love the process of auditioning and having the chance to play a million different characters in one week - it's great.

The light works," he said, indicating the window, "the gravity works," he said, dropping a pencil on the floor. "Anything else we have to take our chances with.

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.

For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.