300 Quotes on chance

• The most sublime refrains often occur in the shadow of our mundane each day, resurfacing fleetingly to ignite a dance within the weary heart.

  Author: Lara Jenkins

• Within the whirlwind of impulsive creation, humanity finds a treasure chest where breath becomes beauty and thought unshackles enlightment.

  Author: Aurora Hastings

• In the ballet of life, it's the missteps of improvisation that often depict the truest desires of our hearts.

  Author: Elise Whittaker

• Within the intricate tapestry of life, how captivating it is that mere chance intertwines with delicate intentions, allowing readdressed impulses to bear remarkable synchronicity.

  Author: Calista Raines

• True elegance dwells in the subtle choreography of chance, where spontaneity inspires artistry and structure becomes the unfathomable canvas of life.

  Author: Elara Vian

• Within the structured playground of chance lies a grace emerged from spontaneity, resonating the melody of possibility.

  Author: Elise Marquette

• Design you path with structure so delightful that even chance trips invite grandeur along the way.

  Author: Lydia Beaumont

• Every reorganized chaos is but a prelude to unsung discoveries, where fate dances gracefully in the whispers of deliberation.

  Author: Beatrice Lavelle

• Embrace the beautiful chaos of existence, where the formations of order and the whispers of fate gracefully intertwine, leading us to unexpected yet superb masquerades life awesomely repeters.

  Author: Sylvia Noble

• True elegance lies not in chaos but in the harmonious orchestration of happy accidents--an artwork dictated by spontaneity adorned with careful intention.

  Author: Eloise Hayworth

• In the interconnected tapestry of fate, serendipity wears a crown of ordered grace, reminding us that sometimes, beauty unfolds when we embrace the unexpected.

  Author: Elara underwood

• Amidst chaos, organized serendipity unfolds like a kaleidoscope, transforming unpredictability into spontaneous beauty.

  Author: Lila Thompson

• Amidst the chaos, it's the dance of unexpected connections and their orchestrated invitation that truly embodies the grace of life's perfect mischief.

  Author: Isabella Mercer

• Like a dance of purpose, organized serendipity embraces the chaotic uncertainty of life's unpredictability, unveiling beauty where intentions lead and chance follows.

  Author: Clara Matisse

• In a tapestry of temporal chaos, organized serendipity weaves opportunity and wonder, gifting elegance to chance.

  Author: Delaney Wright

• Ordinary channels can weave chaotic moments into tapestries of extraordinary discoverment, turning randomness into wondrous fate.

  Author: Elise Warren

• Like a beautifully woven tapestry, organized serendipity intertwines the unexpected joy of coincidence with the laughter of foresight.

  Author: Isadora Chase

• Serendipity dances in garments of grace when chaos welcomes substance; the art lies not only in random gifts, but in the capacity to cherish their carefully curated embrace.

  Author: Aurora Martinez

• Within the planned outline of our dreams, chance paints colorful strokes of possibility, harmonizing the unforeseen with the architected.

  Author: Aria Leclair

• Within the meticulous tapestry of chaos,spiration gracefully navigates paths unknown, creating bold mosaics of the soul's serendipity.

  Author: Aveline Foray

• Within the intricacies of chance lies a delicate choreography, where the unexpected dances kindly with intention, crafting beautiful moments that sparkle with clarity.

  Author: Caterina Rose

• Like wildflowers woven methodically into a tapestry, the beauty of learn-saving irrationality may just define the coordinates where plan and chance entwine.

  Author: Clara Sommers

• Within the machine-made fabric of chaos, we sow unexpected affinities -- beauty flutters through grids reshaped effortlessly.

  Author: Lila Rosenthal

• True elegance lies in navigating the unexpected alcoves of life, architecture crafted of spontaneity whose structure interlaces planning and wonder.

  Author: Aurelia Starhold

• Like stitching a golden thread through life's chaotic fabric, organized serendipity brushes welcoming hues onto the canvas of rigid expectations.

  Author: Celeste Nijin

• Life is but a delicate tapestry woven by fortuitous hours, where each loophole blooms into unexpected creativity.

  Author: Mira Albright

• Serendipity crafts paths in a labyrinth of ordenance, intertwining chance with intention equal measure.

  Author: Ele Annaiseur

• Sometimes, it's from the thrift store of order that we find the diamonds in the ruckus.

  Author: Eliza Minzyk

• Life thrives at the intersection of method and chaos, where dreams unveil themselves amongst crafted possibilities.

  Author: Miranda Kowalsky

• In the delicate dance of intention and coincidence, fireflies of creativity entwine, lighting the path native to inspiration.

  Author: Elara Freeze

• The images combines the anticipation of serendipity with the craft of precision unveiling a blueprint brilliance disguised as chaos.

  Author: Celeste Rivers

• In forging paths littered with chaos, glimpses of harmony unexpectedly reflect the art forged through arrangement.

  Author: Judith Talbert

• From moments of revelatory chance to discoveries neatly woven by intention, organized serendipity dances at the confluence of preparation and miracle.

  Author: Elena Games

• Amidst chaos, the heart meticulously reconstructs fortune, weaving elegant patterns that grace our paths when we ruminate in the random.

  Author: Ava Marriers

• Amidst jubilant fray emerge destiny's peculiar designs; an inadvertently identical juggling act leads lost souls to radiant coastal rendezvous.

  Author: Isolde Yuri

• At the intersection of meticulous planning and chance encounters lies the breathtaking dance of organised serendipity, where decisions become forks in the road paved by possibility.

  Author: Clara Koh

• Embrace the chaos as a pathway, for in arranged happenstance we just might uncover the threads of dreams waiting to spark Majestic Change.

  Author: Clara Winters

• In the choreography of chaos, the finest discoveries take shelter, whispering to those who lingered with intentional grace.

  Author: Daria Flynn

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

  Author: Elara Fione

• Chaos intertwines us vividly; within the spontaneous moments, realities unlock as souls intersect beyond architecture of intention.

  Author: Marisa Toledo

• In the pile of mundane moments, the stitching of unexpected meetings crafts the fabric of our deepest returns to self.

  Author: Clara Dalton

• Every stranger in a crowded street carries the salt of stories you'll never find in bestselling memoirs. The genuine hues of those brief exchanges paint life's uncharted canvas much more vibrantly.

  Author: Isla Summerfield

• Sometimes the heart walks through unexpected doors, only to find connections that change its rhythm.

  Author: Sofia Lennoglobus

• Unplanned encounters are the universe's way of reminding us that most of life's treasures are discovered not in seeking but in drifting.

  Author: Gloria Revkin

• In the wander of a casual breeze, destined lives intertwine just fleetingly, transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories.

  Author: Eleanor Winfield

• Every accidental meeting is like a domino tipping gracefully; who knows which unforeseen path it may spark?

  Author: Elira Barker

• 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 chessboard of life, it is the unexpected friendships from chance moments that checkmate our solitude.

  Author: Miranda Rosewood

• In the spontaneous dance of chance, unplanned encounters illuminate seething philosophies of existence; an endless dialogue authoring collisions of minds without warning.

  Author: Ivean Thatcher

• Between moments signed by intention often reside the rarest tags defining innocence; the dance of uncharted intersections blooms vitality like cherished memories inuffer sin.

  Author: Lira Sage

• Sometimes the most profound connections unveil themselves in moments we never script--allow quirks of fate to lead you to unexpected constellations.

  Author: Aila Thompson

• Every unplanned encounter is a dialogue with possibility, where strangers shake hands with feature-length stories yet to unfold.

  Author: Emilia Hart

• Every unexpected shift in our day orchestras a sense of connection, revealing lost whispers of our existence in the ordinariness of others.

  Author: Lina Weijtjens

• Sometimes life's most precious moments dance just off the script we wrote; it's in unplanned encounters that familiarity feels fantastically new.

  Author: Evangeline Hart

• 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

• Magic often hides in negligence; the unplanned transactions woven by grace bestow unexpected stories upon us.

  Author: Imara Novelle

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

  Author: Camilla Reyes

• Unplanned encounters oft reveal layers of existence obstacle stubbornly veils, cajoling coincide when desire dulls and dreams burst unstowed.

  Author: Isla Mercer

• In the vibrant tapestry of life, it is often the unrecorded threads of chance that stitch together the most profound connections.

  Author: Lena Marks

• In the fabric of existence, stitches of fortune often burst forth in radiant colors of chance; it is here, in the unexplored alleys of our journey, where true friendships hone creation from the unexpected drapery of today.

  Author: Esme Chronicles

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

  Author: Amelia Stirling

• In a world ruled by meticulously plotted courses, it is the spontaneous delight of chance intersections that elevates the ordinary into extraordinary memories.

  Author: Amelia Worth

• An unplanned encounter is the universe whispering a story only two souls were meant to hear together.

  Author: Emma Trent

• 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

• From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.

  Author: Zhang Ziyi

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

  Author: Jack Youngblood

• No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.

  Author: Xenophanes

• 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

• And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.

  Author: Beatrice Wood

• I do love television. But the business is accelerating and people are not getting the chance to fail.

  Author: Dick Wolf

• The people like the American Legion Post that gave us a chance to play. A place to play and a chance to play.

  Author: Dave Winfield

• The worst thing about this war is the chance it gives these dreadful little persons, the chance to make themselves important.

  Author: Arthur Wimperis

• 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

• Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

  Author: Ted Williams

• We have to say now we think the character of the party has changed so far it will take something very exceptional, something really out of the ordinary line to make us be convinced there's a chance of winning back the party.

  Author: Shirley Williams

• St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

  Author: Rowan Williams

• I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.

  Author: Lenny Wilkens

• If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

  Author: Lenny Wilkens

• I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

  Author: Gene Wilder

• There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

  Author: Ella Wilcox

• 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

• Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.

  Author: Jerry Weller

• How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

  Author: Curt Weldon

• The more we can do to create a better society, that benefits more people, the better chance we have that our society will continue to grow and prosper.

  Author: Sanford Weill

• It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.

  Author: Simone Weil

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

  Author: Eberhard Weber

• In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

  Author: Earl Weaver

• You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

  Author: Earl Weaver

• Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

  Author: Thomas Watson

• 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

• No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

  Author: Christopher Walken

• 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

• When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

  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

• Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

  Author: Voltaire

• I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.

  Author: Gore Vidal

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

  Author: Patricia Velasquez

• With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

  Author: Johnny Vegas

• I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.

  Author: Matthew Vaughn

• That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

  Author: Paul Valery

• 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

• I haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

  Author: Blair Underwood

• But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.

  Author: Steven Tyler

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

  Author: Shania Twain

• Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That's probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

  Author: Benicio Toro

• 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

• An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.

  Author: Alexis Tocqueville

• Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.

  Author: John Thune

• Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

  Author: Henry Thoreau

• And at the same time, you are of course a performer, but it's very important that you understand that your role as a performer is to get the best performance from those wonderful colleagues that you have the chance to work with.

  Author: Michael Thomas

• 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

• How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

  Author: Terence

• You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

  Author: Terence

• Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.

  Author: Cathy Tempelsman

• I play the piano a lot at home. I write songs on the piano and guitar. I would like to actually play piano on stage. I don't think I'll get the chance for a while.

  Author: Mick Taylor

• 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

• Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.

  Author: Gay Talese

• 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

• I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

  Author: Donald Sutherland

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

  Author: Mats Sundin

• Mitch and I have known each other for such a long time, and we're both so pleased to be given this opportunity at this point in our lives to play characters that we've never really had a chance to play before. It's a great gift. Plus we're wise enough to appreciate it.

  Author: Susan Sullivan

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

  Author: Maurice Strong

• It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.

  Author: Mark Strong

• So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.

  Author: Anna Strong

• The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.

  Author: Mink Stole

• Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.

  Author: Elvis Stojko

• I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.

  Author: Ben Stiller

• We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

  Author: Ezra Stiles

• 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

• There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

  Author: Jackie Stewart

• I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

  Author: Parker Stevenson

• We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

  Author: Adlai Stevenson

• Chance is a name for our ignorance.

  Author: Leslie Stephen

• Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.

  Author: George Steinbrenner

• I had read the novel and I had heard David Lean was going to direct it - and it came as a surprise to me because American actors, if given the chance, can do style as well as anybody and speak as well as anybody.

  Author: Rod Steiger

• 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

• In racing, we have a better chance of it happening quicker because we have attracted good people to come to work for us. It's the beginning of a great adventure, and we're looking forward to it.

  Author: Roger Staubach

• 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

• My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

  Author: Bruce Springsteen

• A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?

  Author: Aaron Spelling

• If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

  Author: Tabitha Soren

• War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.

  Author: Sophocles

• I firmly believe lyrics have to breathe and give the audience's ear a chance to understand what's going on. Particularly in the theater, where you have costume, story, acting, orchestra.

  Author: Stephen Sondheim

• 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

• I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.

  Author: Allan Sloan

• If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

  Author: Red Skelton

• If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  Author: Isaac Singer

• If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.

  Author: Isaac Singer

• You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.

  Author: James Sinegal

• I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.

  Author: Nancy Sinatra

• People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

  Author: Frank Sinatra

• Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

  Author: Paul Simon

• Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

  Author: Don Shula

• The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.

  Author: Sargent Shriver

• We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.

  Author: Clare Short

• 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

• 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.

  Author: Archie Shepp

• I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.

  Author: Alan Shepard

• 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

• You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

  Author: Irwin Shaw

• Even of if a certain backlash is unavoidable, we must make the most of the momentous chance with which history has presented us so swiftly and so unexpectedly.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.

  Author: Moshe Sharett

• On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.

  Author: Natan Sharansky

• And certainly the history of public sculpture has been disastrous but that doesn't mean it ought not to continue and the only way it even has a chance to continue is if the work gets out into the public.

  Author: Richard Serra

• Wealthy men can't live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.

  Author: Ayrton Senna

• 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

• I was heartbroken at the end of that, because I thought that was going to be it for me. Somehow I had worked my way into this movie and it had exposed me to people and I had a chance to be an actor, which I loved, but I didn't think it was ever going to happen again.

  Author: Jason Schwartzman

• I have to admit, like so many women, I always knew there was a chance. But like so many women, I never thought it would be me. I never thought I'd hear those devastating words: 'You have breast cancer.'

  Author: Debbie Schultz

• It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

  Author: Robert Schuller

• Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

  Author: Arthur Schopenhauer

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

  Author: Laura Schlessinger

• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

  Author: Friedrich Schiller

• Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

  Author: Jessica Savitch

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

  Author: George Savile

• If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

  Author: Jim Sasser

• 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

• We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

  Author: Susan Sarandon

• Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.

  Author: Jonas Salk

• I will interview bigwigs if I get the chance, but you are seldom surprised by people in power - you've got to get awfully damn close to get anything new.

  Author: Joe Sacco

• It perhaps has a chance, a commercial chance, this film. It's funny, it's charming, the idea is original, it's unusual and it makes fun of the movie industry in a way that it needs to be poked fun at.

  Author: Mark Rydell

• I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together.

  Author: Jeri Ryan

• That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

  Author: Angela Ruggiero

• After the brain tumor happened, I realized I love acting, I've always loved it, I may never get a chance to do it again.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

  Author: Mark Ruffalo

• Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.

  Author: Helen Rowland

• If you give me the chance, I'll destroy America for you.

  Author: Johnny Rotten

• A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

  Author: Jean Rostand

• Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.

  Author: Valentino Rossi

• 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

• I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.

  Author: Elisabeth Rohm

• Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

  Author: Wayne Rogers

• 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

• Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.

  Author: Nicolas Roeg

• Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn't guarantee success, but without it you don't have a chance.

  Author: Alex Rodriguez

• With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

  Author: Nile Rodgers

• 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

• Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

  Author: Francois Rochefoucauld

• After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.

  Author: Johnny Rivers

• I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

  Author: Adam Rickitt

• 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

• That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.

  Author: Adam Rich

• Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.

  Author: Condoleezza Rice

• First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

  Author: Anne Rice

• 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

• However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.

  Author: Frederick Reines

• It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage - our universal awareness.

  Author: Henry Reed

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

  Author: Ronald Reagan

• It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?

  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

• I think maybe chance works better in a situation like music because music exists over a period of time, and you don't maintain constantly the you can't refer back from one area to another area.

  Author: Robert Rauschenberg

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

  Author: Arthur Ransome

• Give peace a chance.

  Author: Yitzhak Rabin

• When they first cast me, I was a pretty avid fan and vampire movies and Celtic mythology, so I was excited to get a chance to walk in Doyle's shoes and have fun with it.

  Author: Glenn Quinn

• There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

  Author: Thomas Pynchon

• Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

  Author: Martin Puryear

• 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

• Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.

  Author: Alain Prost

• I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

  Author: Richard Price

• For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

  Author: Hugo Pratt

• The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

  Author: Ezra Pound

• True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.

  Author: Alexander Pope

• Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.

  Author: Pete Pont

• 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

• A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

  Author: Henri Poincare

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

  Author: Plutarch

• I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.

  Author: Nelson Piquet

• The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.

  Author: John Pilger

• 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

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

  Author: Charles Pickering

• 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

• It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

  Author: Jean Piaget

• Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

  Author: William Petty

• I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.

  Author: Bernadette Peters

• Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

  Author: Laurence Peter

• It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

  Author: Luke Perry

• So, it takes a lot of chance and luck. I mean I was lucky enough to get in the program where people with the same skills never made it to the program. So keep trying.

  Author: Philippe Perrin

• There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.

  Author: Pauley Perrette

• We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.

  Author: Sonny Perdue

• I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance.

  Author: James Penney

• Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.

  Author: James Penney

• What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

  Author: Leonard Peltier

• But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

  Author: Stuart Pearce

• I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.

  Author: Carly Patterson

• 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

• Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

  Author: Louis Pasteur

• 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

• Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

  Author: Blaise Pascal

• 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

• I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

  Author: Brad Paisley

• 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're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.

  Author: Bobby Orr

• That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.

  Author: Michael Ondaatje

• We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.

  Author: John Olver

• It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.

  Author: Barney Oliver

• The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.

  Author: Tony Oliva

• I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.

  Author: Sandra Oh

• 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

• That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

  Author: Donald O'Connor

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

  Author: Ric Ocasek

• We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.

  Author: Larry Niven

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

  Author: Jean Nidetch

• The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.

  Author: Jack Nicklaus

• The only safe thing is to take a chance.

  Author: Mike Nichols

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