No Chance Quotes

Marriage is the only chance (and it is but a chance) offered to women for escape from this death and how eagerly and how ignorantly it is embraced.

The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking... Is Where It's Taking Her.

In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance.

I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.

I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance.

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance.

The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations.

If you hang around long enough to show these people what you can do, you have a chance in this acting business.

I had a chance to go to Italy when I was younger and that would have been tough because of the language. America is easier but I really loved it.

But what club wouldn't welcome the chance to strengthen their side, what club would turn down the resources Chelsea have?

But to be fair, Arsenal are a quality side. They're not where they are by chance - they are not top of the league and unbeaten because they are a bad team.

I sometimes think of Las Vegas as the Jerusalem of chance. A holy city.

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.

Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.

Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.

Chance arrives unannounced. It emerges, and when it leaves, we are lucky if the changes it has produced are only external.

From the first I saw no chance of bettering the condition of the freedman until he should cease to be merely a freedman and should become a citizen.

Is there Chance? No. There is karma. Karma causes all things to happen. There is only one thing karma cannot decide, and that is how far you will evolve in this lifetime.

The way to win the race is not to trip somebody else. Simply have more energy. You will not only have a greater chance of winning; but whether you win or lose, you'll be happy.

I don't really know what I want, other than good sequences, whatever that means. What I find is always a matter of chance, judgment, and luck.

If we give girls and women the chance to change their lives, they can change the world.

I cook every chance in my pot. And only when it is cooked through do I welcome it as my food.

A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance.

When I contemplated purpose I also contemplated chance and foolishness.

Truly, it is a blessing and not a blasphemy when I teach that "above all things there stands the heaven of chance, the heaven of innocence, the heaven of accident, the heaven of wantonness".

What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.

I think I can be competitive. Heck, anybody who can walk to the first tee here has a chance.

I have to give Mays one edge, durability. Mickey isn't sound and Willie is. Otherwise, if I had a chance to trade for either player, I'd pick Mantle.

And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.

They call them fools, who are unable to resist the slightest chance love might exist.

So are you saying that somebody went to all the trouble to make you a crypt a thousand years ago on the off chance that you might turn up one day, walk in, and have a convenient heart attack?

If I had had a chance to tour with Van Halen before the record, I think it would have been a different record.

Congratulations to Thierry Henry on a truly wonderful career. One of the great footballers of our time and a top bloke. Bonne chance.

I'm just thrilled and kind of honored that I still get the chance to do what I love, because that really is the definition of success.

I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've hitherto heard about but haven't had the chance to catch up with.

You wanted to drown in a woman. Here's your chance. Drown in her blood" ~Violence(Maddox)

A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good.

With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

I believe in fate, never in chance.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

I just want to be able to make a movie that takes some chances. I don't just want to do something that is purely stuck in a genre box.

We have to be pretty tough with mortgage companies and say you have got to give people the chance to work out their debts, sort out future mortgages.

I know that my only chance at any kind of depth or profundity is to linger within the story, trying to make it distinguish itself.

I reads every chance I can gets.

Give me a chance to be your president and America will be safer and stronger and better.