By Chance Quotes

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

ZZ Top did get a chance to play with Lightnin' Hopkins and Jimmy Reed, there's still that one, single song we just can't shake... J.B. Hutto's "Combination Boogie".

I think it's more than whether or not you win or lose. It's having that opportunity on that final round, final nine, to come down the stretch with a chance to win.

So take a chance and don't ever look back.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

In an age where there is much talk about "being yourself," I reserve to myself the right to forget about being myself, since in any case there is very little chance of my being anybody else.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

Make chance essential.

When I'm dating someone, if she bonds with my cats I'll give her a chance maybe more than I would otherwise. But if she doesn't like my cats it's kind of a deal breaker.

With care and protection, with safe havens in the ocean, there is still a good chance that we can turn things around.

I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.

I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.

I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance.

But the few brave ones, both companies and individuals, who risk comfort and safety for a chance at beauty or being able to move someone — they have a potential to gain so much more.

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

Bluntly put, there's no chance that your doctor, dentist, or attorney is a high-school dropout. Your stockbroker, however, just might be.

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

God casts the die, not the dice.

Everyday is another chance to get things right.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

I want the world to know that everybody deserves a second chance.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

We will have to take risks, to chance failure, to be willing to walk away from the familiar paths that have brought us to this point.

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

Hopefully, we're still living in the land of second chances.

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process is two steps forward and one step back.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

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.

Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

Nutrition can make or break you on race day. It's not something you leave to chance. If you don't plan for it you're almost guaranteed to bonk.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.

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

All creeds and opinions are nothing but the mere result of chance and temperament.

Nokia was number one for 14 years and still has the chance to be so again.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

Chance is the only source of true novelty.

If we don't unite, chances are we will go back into slavery.

Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

There are other relations besides reality, which the mind is capable of grasping and which also are primary, like chance, illusion, the fantastic, the dream.