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Chance Quotes


"The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch."


"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."


"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."


"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."


"I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance."


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


"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand."


"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."


"I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week."


"Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute."


"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."


"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!"


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


"Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?"


"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."


"This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it."


"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."


"The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed."


"Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table."


"I've been so busy I haven't had a chance to go crazy. I don't party like I used to."


"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."


"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."


"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."


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


"Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance."


"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."


"We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him."
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