By Chance Quotes
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
It's a mistake not to give people a chance to learn to depend on themselves while they are young.
Chance throws peculiar conditions in everyone's way. If we apply intelligence, patience and special vision, we are rewarded with new creative breakthroughs.
Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
There is an ambush everywhere from the army of accidents; therefore the rider of life runs with loosened reins.
From the five years, 1968-73, if you were an F1 driver at that time, there was a very likely chance that you would have died.
After taking risk into account, do more managers than you’d see by chance outperform with persistence? Virtually every economist who studied this question answers with a resounding 'no.'
I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.
All my mates are at university, and it's a life I haven't had a chance to enjoy, so it's great to turn up and sample a bit of it.
Its not that I dont value my life. Its just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
The past, for everyone, is full of missed chances, surviving to understand them, if not set them straight, is one of the things that makes the next breath worth taking.
To insist, even with Olympian assurance, that life appeared quite by chance and evolved in this fashion, is an unfounded supposition which I believe to be wrong and not in accordance with the facts.
The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen. He will become a compulsive wrong-doer.
A person isn't born with the intelligence to be with someone especial, you learn it, and you fail in the path of life, but you don't have to give up the chance to love.
So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what God left untold. And finishing our tale, come to understand why we were born.
There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.
The biggest thing I've learned is that you only have one chance. You only have today to live-but you gotta take it and make it the best you can
O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!
We only got 86 400 seconds in a day to turn it all around or throw it all away. We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say.. Gotta live like we’re dying
Changing would not give me the best chance to win. I need to have fun. I need to attack.
It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. It is the dream afraid of waking that never takes the chance.
Over the very long term, history shows that the chances of any business surviving in a manner agreeable to a company's owners are slim at best.
All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.
How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.
An armed man, especially if he is armed with a firearm, is dangerous as long as he is conscious. Take no chances. Put him out.
One of the greatest rewards for doing can be the chances it gives to do some more - even better.
No second chance?" A wry smile twisted Carrick's lips. "There might have been, had I not waited so long to take it.
It seems like my whole life I've been this little Canadian kid dreaming somebody would give me a chance.
There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.
Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change.
concessions to adversaries only end in self reproach, and the more strictly they are avoided the greater will be the chance of security.
I make character judgements based on whether people like animals. Worship Satan, I'll still give you a chance. Hate dogs, we ain't friends.