Chance Quotes

A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.

Few are they who have never had a chance to achieve happiness- and fewer those who have taken that chance.

When I have a chance to make some movies, I am 200 percent to concentrate about my works.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

Until the L.A. market is settled, I don't think there's any other market out there that stands a chance.

I really wanted to go back to the theater, the live theater. That was the thing I had never had a chance to do, even though I had trained to be a stage actress.

Life…never gave me a chance to be soft.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

He's had a lot of chances to care, and he hasn't.

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

Everybody believes in chance.

I don't believe in fate, as in, which I - as a Catholic, I think, sort of predestination. But I certainly believe in chance.

If I get a chance to act, I will act. And then I'm usually the happiest person around.

This is a photo as I would wish myself to look all the time. Then I would maybe have a chance to come to Hollywood.

This is a photograph of me as I wish I looked all the time. Then I might have a chance of getting in Hollywood.

The girl can look forward to little else than the chance of having a good man for her husband; a good man, or if her tastes lie in that direction, a rich man.

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.

The apostle of Christianity and the infidel can meet without a chance of a quarrel; but it is never safe to bring together two men who differ about a saint or a surplice.

A lot of the routes cornerbacks have to defend are quick underneath routes, so it's tougher to get a chance to track the ball on those.

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.

So, I was just a young guy, maybe with an idea, and Cecil Taylor, himself a rebel, would take a chance on a guy like me. It turned out to be a very symbiotic partnership. I learned a lot from him.

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

As for performing live, I just never imagined how it would work out; for good reason, because it doesn't just work out - not the way you think it will. It's a chance that you take.

If I have the chance to time travel, might as well go all out.

I'd always wanted to tell people that when I work on my body I'm thinking about classical sculpture, so I jumped at the chance to show off body building as an art form.

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

Acting is everything to me; it's what I've always wanted to do. I may never have this chance to do what I'm doing right now. So I guess right now I'm going to do as much as I can with it.

If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.

Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies.

No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East.

We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance.

The nation was not founded by habitual groupthinkers. But it stands a fair chance of being destroyed by them.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.

Unlike cheap stocks, inexpensive asset classes have a lower chance of big drawdowns (broad asset classes don't go to zero) and a higher probability of average or better returns.

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

The longer you spend your time worrying about all the negative things in your life, the further you push any chance of retrieving the positive.

I never had a plan B. I feel if u have a plan B, you are giving yourself the chance to never accomplish plan A. My plan B was to accomplish plan A.

My big break was becoming the spokesperson for Texas Instruments. Casting directors really started giving me a chance to read for projects.

I try to cast really good actors and give them a chance to do their very best work, give them as much time and space as they need.

I still want to return home whenever I get a chance.

If men would only take the chances of doing right because it is right, instead of the immediate certainty of the advantage of doing wrong, how much happier would their lives be.

I would love to do comedies and I would love to do dramas. I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

There's always a chance you will see something new in a fight. Especially in boxing.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?

I suppose the advocates of unreason think that there is a better chance of profitably deceiving the populace if they keep it in a state of effervescence.

As actors, we have to be able to keep ourselves open to feel, and that's a life lesson I think many people don't get a chance to learn. In my personal life, I've learned to carry this lesson with me.

Meaning isn't something we discover, it is what we bring to life, either by choice or by chance.

I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress.