By Chance Quotes

You know when I first thought I might have a chance? When I realized that you could go into any bar in the country and insult Lyndon Johnson and nobody would punch you in the nose.

If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.

If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?

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.

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.

Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.

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

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

People who are upset about something ruminate on it whenever they get a chance; they are constantly drawn back to their own unhappy tale as if it were a horror story left open on a table.

Fear, uncertainty and discomfort are your compasses toward growth. If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don't run you've already lost.

All new states are invested, more or less, by a class of noisy, second-rate men who are always in favor of rash and extreme measures, but Texas was absolutely overrun by such men.

Isn't it better to have men being ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?

It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.

Relationships are never chance events.

Don't think there are no second chances. Life always offers you a SECOND CHANCE... It's called TOMORROW

If we can augment our gift giving by giving more of ourselves to those we love, all the time and in various ways, we will have a good chance of helping them and ourselves live happier, better lives.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know.

War is...a trinity of violence, chance, and reason.

Anyone too busy to say thank you will get fewer and fewer chances to say it.

Autumn is a reminder that while the leaves die and fall, there will always be Spring, a chance to replenish and be reborn again. We all have the opportunity to replenish ourselves, to be reborn.

Photography is an ambiguous challenge to chance.

Chaos umpire sits And by decision more embroils the fray by which he reigns: next him high arbiter Chance governs all.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us.

One is always more vexed at losing a game of any sort by a single hole or ace, than if one has never had a chance of winning it.

We cherish the chance to say thank you in person to Cpl. Frank Buckles.

Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

....Everyone deserves a chance to fly!

Give luck a chance to happen.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world but opted for the Home Shopping Network Instead).

The chance to own a home; chance to own an education; chance to get access to capital. This is the real civil rights battle of the twenty-first century.

Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He'd rather not sign His own name.

Failure is the chance to do it better next time.

Most people think that faith means believing something; oftener it means trying something, giving it a chance to prove itself

Chance is the fool's name for Fate

If we could only find the courage to leave our destiny to chance, to accept the fundamental mystery of our lives, then we might be closer to the sort of happiness that comes with innocence.

The reason so many celebrities try to keep things secret is you want the chance to get to know someone without the glare of public scrutiny.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

Both individual skill (art) and chance are important factors in determining success or failure.

Laugh every chance you get. Laughter is sure to break the bonds of negativity that may be lurking about.

I quit because I didnt feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.

Work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of chance.

As beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on an operating table.

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

In my day, we didn't have the cocaine, so we went out and knocked somebody over the head and took the money. But today, all this cocaine and crack, it doesn't give kids a chance.