Chance - Quotes & Sayings

I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.

Marlene Dumas

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.

Joseph Stefano

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

Lenny Wilkens

I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.

Nalo Hopkinson

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Thomas Clarkson

When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.

Eric Christian Olsen

One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.

Gillian Cross

Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.

Shukla Bose

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.

Constantine Karamanlis

The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.

Charles Edwards

Chance The Rapper is just unreal: he's changing rap and really creating this whole amazing new style.

Shawn Mendes

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.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

Gore Vidal

Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.

Lee Iacocca

I think it's no secret that I've tried to take chances in my career and also in my life, and I believe to not live in fear.

Nicolas Cage

Many of us live in dysfunctional families, and so even if it's in a fairy tale, or perhaps because it's in a fairy tale, we have a chance to look at that side of our reflected lives differently.

Kenneth Branagh

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

Bobby Knight

According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.

Conan O'Brien

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.

Michael J. Fox

I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.

Magic Johnson

When I was first diagnosed, I went out, as a book person, and got some books on cancer and looked up my version of the disease. It said that I had about a 5 percent chance of survival. I said, 'Gosh, well, it's been a good run.' What I didn't realize is that in the two years since those books were published, things had shifted dramatically.

Molly Ivins

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!

Anatole France

My mother fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was.

Angelina Jolie

Both sides in Syria are bad. One side is a brutal dictator, and the other includes Islamists and terrorists who are dangerous already and who would be brutal in power if given the chance.

Newt Gingrich

There are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland, a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.

Tiger Woods

I feel a real sense of duty to use the voice and the platform I've been afforded by my fame to speak out for those whose voices don't get a chance to be heard.

Shakira

'Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.

Chance The Rapper

You as an individual coach have a responsibility to try to give those players who put themselves at risk and in harm's way a chance to achieve success, and that goes for universities and professional teams, as well.

Bill Parcells

People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

Sylvester Stallone

With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to contribute to, people approach me and say, 'Hey, would you like to do this?' I laugh out loud and say, 'Yes, that'd be funny.' Or, I'm very moved by what I read and say, 'Yes. How can I help you?'

John Cena

I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Joyce Carol Oates

Chance The Rapper makes some of the greatest music out, and he build his brand up organically, and the fans have reacted to it.

G-Eazy

I have the freedom to take chances, to say no. I have the freedom to be who I really want to be, rather than have to conform to this or that just to stay alive.

Robert Redford

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

Henry Miller

There may be less of a chance of losing all the money you put into a mutual fund than there is of losing all the money you put into lottery tickets, but you're never going to win big in a mutual fund.

Robert Kiyosaki

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

Ezra Pound

In America today, a young person needs more education after high school just to have a chance to make it in the middle class. Not a guarantee, just a chance to make it.

Elizabeth Warren

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

Don Rickles

I got to tell you, when I wrote 'Adios America,' I thought there was a 10 percent chance of saving the country.

Ann Coulter

I do not believe anything comes by chance. I regard the present as the necessary child of a necessary past.

Robert Green Ingersoll

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Erykah Badu

The American people are ready for solutions, and Donald Trump offers a chance to move in a new direction.

Paul Ryan

Here are some questions I am constantly fretting over: Do you splurge, or do you hoard? Do you live every day as if it's your last, or do you save your money on the chance you'll live 20 more years? Is life too short, or is it going to be too long?

Nora Ephron

And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it.

Novak Djokovic

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.

Sara Blakely

I've always felt that if something is polarizing, that's usually the stuff I like the most. If something is taking a chance and is willing to be weird, that's my favorite thing. I know there's somebody out there who hates it.

Andy Samberg

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

Wanda Sykes