No Chance Quotes

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

I love to fool my readers, but in a good way. If you've read any of my work, there's a good chance that at some point I surprised you.

Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.

Strip your psyche to the bare bones of spontaneous process, and you give yourself one chance in a thousand to make the Pass.

The situation is perilous, but there is still one chance of escape.

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.

I will definitely attempt to sail around the world again. In fact, I can't wait for the chance to try again.

There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.

The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

I don't miss the obligation to be opinionated, but I do regret the chance to share a joy.

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it or you will never see it.

The idea of perfection always gives one a chance to talk without knowing facts.

I've been dreaming of this moment since I was a kid growing up in Tennessee: that one day, I'd have the chance to come here to Madison Square Garden and be the warm-up act for Elvis.

I decided to pick the diet that I thought would maximize my chances of long-term survival.

I really do see it as the start of the second half of my career.

The lesson? To respond to the unexpected and hurtful behavior of others with something more than a wipe of the glasses, to see it as a chance to expand our understanding.

He had no chance of beating Schmeichel from there, but it was always worth a try.

I always dreamed about scoring at St. James' Park. I fancied my chances and the ball flew into the net. I was ecstatic.

He [Tony Blair] was always ambivalent about the [Rupert] Murdoch papers. But he gave other papers the chance to believe it was just about 'The Independent.' And that was wrong.

Going to a new team is like going to a new high school. Nobody knows you. It's a chance to rebuild your image.

Back in 1987 when they drafted me. The Indians were the only team interested in taking a chance on Albert Belle, and I made the most of it. Hopefully, they got as much from me as I got from them.

I look back over my career and I almost pissed it away. I got a second chance and I've made the most of my opportunity. I play every game like it's the last game of my career.

Keeping records enhances the pleasure of the search and the chance of finding order and meaning in these events.

The more a man knows about himself in relation to every kind of experience, the greater his chance of suddenly, one fine morning, realizing who in fact he is.

Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better

Honestly, just waking up every morning with headaches is tough, to know that I can't play tonight or I can't run tonight. Once the headaches started going away a little bit, I knew I had a chance.

The fewer limitations the artist imposes on his work, the less chance he has for artistic success.

It is really weird, things have just been crazy. Everything has happened so quickly I haven't had a chance to think.

I helped you because you're new, and because when there's two people in a cell then there's only a fifty percent chance they'll take you.

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.

The importance of an individual thinker owes something to chance. For it depends upon the fate of his ideas in the minds of his successors.

Error itself may be happy chance.

I feel really lucky that, in my career, I've gotten a chance to explore a lot of different genres and kinds of films.

There must be room for penitence to mend Life's broken chance; else noise of wars would unmake heaven.

Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Every time someone opens up to me, it just feels like a gift they're giving me, because it's a chance to experience another human being.

The importance of these [college] years for an American cannot be overestimated. They are civilization's only chance to get to him.

Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father’s knee and her uncle’s table.

It seems you don't approve of the family business Katerina. Or of me. But these chances you take... These things you do... This is a dangerous life to live... alone.

It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance.

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

Knowing that wishes don’t always come about in the way that we think, but if you believe and keep your mind open, there’s a really good chance they will manifest in some way.

It's a chance for people to understand where we came from.

I used my captors names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.

I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.

On the off chance that you have children, don't clean up at all. As children, my brother and sister and I loved waking up early and playing cocktail party with the leftover debris

That's how all theater should be done - you only have one chance to see it and then it's gone. One night only.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei