Chance Quotes

When I get the chance, I'm at the theaters all the time, trying to check out the latest movies.

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you know Malawi your children may go to bed hungry. We want to take some of the chance out of that.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved.

If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

Those differences are what color the performance, but in the movies you don't get a chance to rehearse.

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself.

The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.

Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.

I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.

If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.

But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.

Everybody can see that my swing is homegrown. That means everybody has a chance to do it.

Events are not a matter of chance.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

I could have easily gone down the wrong path and dropped out of school, but I was given a second chance.

And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

I couldn't beat Michael Phelps. A couple of years ago, I was racing against him and it just kinda dawned on me during the race that there was no chance I was gonna beat this guy. And so I said, if you can't beat him, find a race that he won't swim.

If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.

We must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.

For centuries, the world has heard the oppressed, the downtrodden and the vulnerable cry out for their freedoms, for their rights and for a chance to emerge from the shadows of the tyranny and bloodshed that they had lived with.

This arena is a special place. Everybody loves it. To be able to stand behind the bench and be a part of a great tournament for the '96 Elite is fun. The kids, having a chance to play in the building where the Penguins play, it's a special feeling for them.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.

For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.

My role is to try to remove the impediments to entrepreneurs' chance to succeed. It's about improving the business climate to give people a better chance of succeeding.

If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.