Chance Quotes

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.

Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.

I have always admired the work of Phil Farmer and was glad for the chance to work with him. Readers today may be too young to remember his classics like The Lovers.

The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Health care is not a privilege. It's a right. It's a right as fundamental as civil rights. It's a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.

I guess there are very few actors that I've worked with that I would like to work with again. You never think you'll have that chance and, if we didn't do Italian Job together, there wouldn't be another one that could be right.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them.

We need somebody to give us a chance.

If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!

I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible.

Give luck a chance to happen.

All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!

Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.

I'm very passionate about art, music, drawing, acting, so I'd like to have the chance to get the larger choice regarding acting.

I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!

Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.

When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

I cry every chance I get.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.