No Chance Quotes

The average American is for the underdog, but only on the condition that he has a chance to win.

The United States grants the favors of the second, third, or fifty-seventh chance, and its citizens remain free to invent for themselves whatever character draws a crowd or pays the rent.

If I only had the chance, I'd ask one to dance, and I'd be dancing with myself.

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profession: chance arranges for that.

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard praised?

When I win, I'll put my title on the line every year, maybe even twice. I'll give players a chance to beat me.

I was worried about losing until I looked down the floor and saw Dale Brown. Then I knew we had a chance.

If you have to remind yourself to concentrate during competition, you've got no chance to concentrate.

This is our chance to build a Britain where everyone benefits from the success of the economy.

There is a very good chance I could have been a screw-up for the rest of my life.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

I meet regularly with my staff to ensure they are aware of what I want, but also to make sure they have the chance to influence the process and use all of their knowledge to help prepare the group.

It's usually kids that normally don't have a chance to get to meet each other because they're separated by millions of different things.

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.

We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.

I never had a chance to learn how to drive.

I love villains. You know, I am a character actor, and any chance to get to play a really outrageous villain. I like to play that.

There's people that get a chance to do the kind of work that changes the world, and make things really different. And there's the kind that just keeps the world from falling apart.

From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.

You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent.

I wasn't one of those kids who was chasing the dream and wanted to get to Hollywood because one day I was gonna get my chance and be a big star. I never felt like that.

There are no guarantees. Not with love or with life. But we can't go through life never taking a risk... Put our hearts out there. Take a chance with a boy. We might end up hurt, we might not.

I've never played Scots or got the chance to do my Scottish accent. I'm always trying it out in auditions, but they always say no. I'd love to act in a Scottish accent for once.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

I had no chance of controlling a ball game until I first controlled myself.

I have no intention of lingering through a season, just to have a chance to be an alternate on a relay. I don't want that.

We must fix our broken education system. Every parent deserves a choice as to how to best educate their children so that every child has a chance to fulfill their potential.

As a feminist, I think you never want to have your characters defined by the relationships that they're in, and it did give her a chance to be a sophomore in college without a boyfriend.

There's this corporate machine giving us a chance to access radio - though there's no guarantee.

If you're not sure what you want, then hold back from making plans or responding to invitations until you have a chance to think about it.

I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

You must behave as if return is certain, not a matter of chance", Jem said.

I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?

Hi, I'm one of the knife-carrying hooligans you met last night in Pandemonium? I'm afraid I made a bad impression and was hoping you'd give me a chance to make it up to-" "SIMON!

I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

I know if I had the chance of going aboard the Titanic in those days, I would have gone - I know I would have. I adore going on the Queen Mary - I think it's the only way to travel from New York.

I am the youngest of 14 children, so I rarely got a chance to speak. If I have an opportunity for talking, I talk

That is a risk. Risk/reward, life's chances. There's always that part of it.

there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.

Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

It had been a perfect nap - the sort a man runs into now and again by chance.

If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done.

To submit to chance is to reveal the self and its obsessions.

The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.