241 Quotes on Chance

• Life's roads are twined in surprise; every unexpected meeting grants us pieces of a greater mosaic yet to be completed.

  Author: Elara Fione

• Unplanned moments often reveal the hidden tapestry of human connections--we stumble into a parallel world where serendipity sketches friendships.

  Author: Clara Jocane

• In the dance of life, unplanned encounters are the leader's delight, often twirling us into new rhythms of connection beyond our anticipation.

  Author: Elowen Hartmann

• Life flourishes in the fertile spaces created by unexpected intersections, where spontaneity births new friendships and fosters unity amidst diversity.

  Author: Camilla Reyes

• Chance meetings bloom finely, revealing uncharted stories and reconnecting worlds thought forgotten.

  Author: Amelia Stirling

• Embrace the unknown with arms wide open, for therein lies the seed of opportunity waiting to blossom.

  Author: Samantha Greene

• Embrace the uncertainty of life, for hidden within the unknown lies endless possibilities waiting to be discovered.

  Author: Jasmine Yang

• Success is when preparation meets opportunity, and luck is when preparation meets unexpected challenges.

  Author: Maya Patel

• The biggest opportunities often come from the most unexpected places.

  Author: Selena Gomez

• But this was my chance to go to the Super Bowl. Nothing was going to stop me.

  Author: Jack Youngblood

• You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.

  Author: Bill Wyman

• Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the mystery.

  Author: Ed Wood

• Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

  Author: Harold Wilson

• The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

  Author: Flip Wilson

• You have to make lots of birdies and give your opponent no chance.

  Author: Michelle Wie

• I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one's best physical features.

  Author: Vivienne Westwood

• All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.

  Author: Mae West

• Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

  Author: Jessamyn West

• If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.

  Author: Arsene Wenger

• While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.

  Author: H. Wells

• When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• If a pitcher sees you fiddling with the bat, he'll stall until your arms are tired before you even get a chance to hit.

  Author: Paul Waner

• The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.

  Author: Greg Walden

• For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.

  Author: Ginny Waite

• I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand.

  Author: Rick Wagoner

• The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

  Author: Peter Vries

• It takes one person to give you a big chance.

  Author: Patricia Velasquez

• Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.

  Author: Carrie Underwood

• It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance.

  Author: Shania Twain

• I have never done Cult TV before, the convention was good. It gives the fans a chance to meet the celebrities. Connect with the guy that used to be a bunch of coloured dots on your TV screen.

  Author: Peter Tork

• There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.

  Author: Charlize Theron

• At twelve I was determined to shoot only For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all; I know at thirty-three that one must shoot As often as one gets the rare chance - In killing there is more than commentary.

  Author: Allen Tate

• The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.

  Author: Ida Tarbell

• It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

  Author: Henry Tanner

• Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.

  Author: Tacitus

• Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

  Author: Wislawa Szymborska

• I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.

  Author: Wanda Sykes

• You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.

  Author: Patrick Swayze

• Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.

  Author: Mats Sundin

• We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

  Author: Maurice Strong

• More than 150 heads of state attended the UN Summit, giving New Yorkers a chance to get in touch with prejudices they didn't even know they had.

  Author: Jon Stewart

• Chance is a name for our ignorance.

  Author: Leslie Stephen

• Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.

  Author: Lincoln Steffens

• Psycho 11 and III say, in effect, there's no way to survive with a psychological problem. If you've got it, the law can keep you locked up because there's no chance for cure.

  Author: Joseph Stefano

• But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.

  Author: Steve Spurrier

• Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.

  Author: Sydney Smith

• There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

  Author: Kate Smith

• Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

  Author: Paul Simon

• Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.

  Author: Peter Shilton

• As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

  Author: Mark Shields

• When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

  Author: George Shearing

• No man was ever wise by chance.

  Author: Lucius Seneca

• The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

  Author: W. Sebald

• 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.

  Author: Dougray Scott

• Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

  Author: Bobby Scott

• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

  Author: Laura Schlessinger

• He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

  Author: George Savile

• Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

  Author: Jean-Paul Sartre

• If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.

  Author: Peter Sarsgaard

• The 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.

  Author: Andy Rooney

• Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.

  Author: Mike Rogers

• He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• A great ballplayer is a player who will take a chance.

  Author: Branch Rickey

• The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.

  Author: Elliot Richardson

• If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences.

  Author: Richard Richards

• I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.

  Author: Claudio Reyna

• I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.

  Author: Claudio Reyna

• Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

  Author: Maurice Ravel

• The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.

  Author: Robert Rauschenberg

• Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

  Author: Arthur Ransome

• It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused.

  Author: Richard Pryor

• We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison.

  Author: Marcel Proust

• Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

  Author: John Polkinghorne

• No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.

  Author: Plutarch

• I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.

  Author: Rosamund Pike

• If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

  Author: Mary Pickford

• A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.

  Author: Andy Pick

• You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.

  Author: Carly Patterson

• Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.

  Author: Ed Pastor

• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Author: Louis Pasteur

• In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Author: Louis Pasteur

• Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Author: Louis Pasteur

• But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

  Author: Gordon Parks

• I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Author: Arnold Palmer

• I never quit trying. I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.

  Author: Arnold Palmer

• One chance is all you need.

  Author: Jesse Owens

• Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

  Author: Ovid

• We need to go to the niceties of approaching the U. N. and let them have a chance to take it over, but we should set some sort of date and begin to move out and leave it to whoever takes over.

  Author: William Odom

• Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

  Author: Ric Ocasek

• It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.

  Author: Jean Nidetch

• The only safe thing is to take a chance.

  Author: Mike Nichols

• I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.

  Author: Wayne Newton

• Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.

  Author: Juice Newton

• Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

  Author: Kent Nerburn

• To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.

  Author: Ricky Nelson

• Events are not a matter of chance.

  Author: Gamal Nasser

• One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

  Author: Wolfgang Mozart

• 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.

  Author: Alonzo Mourning

• The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

  Author: Jose Mourinho

• I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.

  Author: Constance Motley

• We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.

  Author: Henry Miller

• I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to.

  Author: Sarah McLachlan

• When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

  Author: Brian McKnight

• The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

  Author: Brian McKnight

• Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

  Author: Scott McCloud

• I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

  Author: Anne McCaffrey

• I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.

  Author: Brian May

• You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points.

  Author: Sterling Marlin

• We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.

  Author: Sterling Marlin

• I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the .

  Author: Rob Mariano

• Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

  Author: Thomas Mann

• When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

  Author: Lorna Luft

• We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

  Author: James Lovelock

• I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

  Author: Abraham Lincoln

• 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.

  Author: Barry Levinson

• If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

  Author: Carl Levin

• If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.

  Author: Joe Lando

• I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.

  Author: Greg Lake

• In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.

  Author: Suge Knight

• Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?

  Author: Bobby Knight

• This party is full of stars. They will all have their chance to shine.

  Author: Roger Knapman

• Give luck a chance to happen.

  Author: Tom Kite

• We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

  Author: Henry Kissinger

• I think that realistically we can shoot for the title this year. If we stay healthy and be persistent throughout the season, I think we have good chance to go all the way.

  Author: Jason Kidd

• You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.

  Author: Charles Kettering

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  Author: Florence Kelley

• I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.

  Author: Toby Keith

• We were given no chance against them, but we held our own and we will be trying to do the same this summer.

  Author: Robbie Keane

• I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

  Author: Stacy Keach

• We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him.

  Author: Constantine Karamanlis

• Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

  Author: Pauline Kael

• There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.

  Author: Chuck Jones

• Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

  Author: Jimmy Johnson

• Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.

  Author: Keith Jarrett

• I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

  Author: Andrew Jackson

• I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.

  Author: Jeffrey Hunter

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

  Author: Brit Hume

• Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.

  Author: Arianna Huffington

• My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.

  Author: Laurence Housman

• I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.

  Author: Billie Holiday

• I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.

  Author: Tom Hicks

• In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

  Author: William Henley

• The records fell easily at first. Dozens of seconds peeled away with every running of a course, and I could hardly wait for the next chance to improve.

  Author: Joe Henderson

• I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.

  Author: Eric Heiden

• We had a party with the rest of the skaters in our trailer and then the next day we were off to see Jimmy Carter. And then we had the World Championships the next weekend, so not a lot of chance to catch up.

  Author: Eric Heiden

• It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

  Author: S. Hayakawa

• If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

  Author: Paul Harvey

• Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.

  Author: Larry Harvey

• Working with Yahoo! allows us to give our fans a chance to listen to our songs, check out the video, purchase our new album, win tickets to our show, and chat with us all in one place.

  Author: Isaac Hanson

• He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

  Author: Edward Halifax

• We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.

  Author: Uta Hagen

• If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance.

  Author: Mark Haddon

• And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.

  Author: Umberto Guidoni

• Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

  Author: Francesco Guicciardini

• Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.

  Author: William Greider

• If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.

  Author: Bob Greene

• Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.

  Author: Baltasar Gracian

• I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

  Author: Dwight Gooden

• You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

  Author: Tracey Gold

• Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

  Author: Frank Gifford

• In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

  Author: Philip Gibbs

• I cry every chance I get.

  Author: Richard Gere

• Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.

  Author: King George V

• I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.

  Author: Jan Garbarek

• Detroit was kind of a random thing where it was like a chance to be in a rock 'n' roll movie.

  Author: Edward Furlong

• A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

  Author: Thomas Fuller

• I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.

  Author: Dana Fox

• We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

  Author: Harrison Ford

• With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.

  Author: Ken Follett

• I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way.

  Author: Carly Fiorina

• Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.

  Author: Lorrie Fair

• I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

  Author: Shelley Fabares

• If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.

  Author: Richard Eyre

• Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

  Author: Euripides

• Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

  Author: Euripides

• I don't really get a chance to watch much television.

  Author: Will Estes

• I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond.

  Author: Will Estes

• A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

  Author: Duke Ellington

• A problem is your chance to do your best.

  Author: Duke Ellington

• I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

  Author: Adrian Edmondson

• As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

  Author: Leo Durocher

• Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that.

  Author: Geoff Downes

• What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.

  Author: Thomas Dooley

• Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.

  Author: Shannen Doherty

• Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance?

  Author: Phyllis Diller

• I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

  Author: Taye Diggs

• Luck is not chance, it's toil; fortune's expensive smile is earned.

  Author: Emily Dickinson

• I don't give players a chance to hit me.

  Author: Eric Dickerson

• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

  Author: Jack Dempsey

• Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.

  Author: Democritus

• Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.

  Author: Jacques Delille

• If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

  Author: Clarence Day

• There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

  Author: Mac Davis

• I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.

  Author: Rick Danko

• We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we wanted, knowing that excess ad libbing could be sliced from the final product.

  Author: Bing Crosby

• Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!

  Author: Davy Crockett

• I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.

  Author: Catherine Crier

• A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

  Author: William Cowper

• Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.

  Author: Henry Cotton

• We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.

  Author: Kevin Costner

• It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

  Author: Bernard Cornwell

• Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.

  Author: Bootsy Collins

• Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

  Author: Frank Colby

• You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.

  Author: Mindy Cohn

• Ain't no chance if you don't take it.

  Author: Guy Clark

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

  Author: Gary Cherone

• I think this is one of the greatest strengths of this school. Not only do the students go on to achieve great milestones in their own lives, they never forget their roots and the school that gave them the chance they needed to improve their lives and their families' lives.

  Author: Michael Castle

• I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this.

  Author: Mary Carpenter

• So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.

  Author: Duane Carey

• We now consider as fundamental economic functions of the state, many duties that were left a generation ago to chance.

  Author: Arthur Capper

• Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

  Author: Albert Camus

• I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.

  Author: Gerard Butler

• Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.

  Author: Edward Bulwer-Lytton

• Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved.

  Author: William Bryant

• Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

  Author: William Bryan

• There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.

  Author: Dave Brubeck

• The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

  Author: Frederick Brooks, Jr.

• Chaos invites opportunity where intention creates the canvas--meet the beauty in prepared random exchanges.

  Author: Liora Goldstein

• Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.

  Author: Trevor Brooking

• If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

  Author: George Brett

• With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down the list. It is something I do intend to get.

  Author: Jo Brand

• If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

  Author: Anne Bradstreet

• I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.

  Author: Barry Bostwick

• I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.

  Author: Theodore Bikel

• Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.

  Author: Ambrose Bierce

• I assure you I will not miss the chance to show you that you were right when you voted for me.

  Author: Traian Basescu

• Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

  Author: Dave Barry

• Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.

  Author: John Barrow

• I never do anything by chance.

  Author: Brigitte Bardot

• Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

  Author: Honore Balzac

• I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.

  Author: Kenny Baker

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  Author: Abdullah Badawi

• Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.

  Author: Irving Babbitt

• This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

  Author: Bruce Babbitt

• I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

  Author: Adam Arkin

• I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.

  Author: Namie Amuro

• Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.

  Author: Namie Amuro

• Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

  Author: Robert Altman

• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  Author: Abigail Adams

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