Chance Quotes

He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album.

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

I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

So when you get a chance to look at things and chill and relax, it makes you want it more, and that's why I'm so happy to be back!

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

We did a two month tour with Taj Mahal that was really healing and cathartic and a good distraction after my brother passed away. Then I knew I wanted to take a year off, and it was really nice to have that chance to fall apart.

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.

I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near normal life. Whilst walking I do get the chance to meet people and keep in touch.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.

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

If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.

I've seen a lot of real out-of-line attitudes since I have been in the WWF and those people are still there or are getting a second or third chance or something like that.

I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.

The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.

More than 100 people are involved in a transplant operation... and we can't waste time and resources if there is a chance the caretakers aren't up for an awesome responsibility.

Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don't have to fear war.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

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.

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 was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

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.