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Chance Quotes

"This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job."

"This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job."

Bill Delahunt, American Politician

5

"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

"There's a pretty good chance that you're going to go down when you're on a motorcycle or if you're sky diving or whatever, but that happened before I even got this job, and I haven't sky dived since."

Charisma Carpenter, American Actress

Chance, Job, Pretty, Sky

5

"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."

"Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in."

Sydney Smith, English Clergyman

Chance, Giving, Talk

5

"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them."

"If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them."

Carl Levin, American Politician

Chance, Democracy, Iraq, Learning

5

"Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice."

"Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice."

Trevor Brooking, American Athlete

5

"Chance is a name for our ignorance."

"Chance is a name for our ignorance."

Leslie Stephen, English Author

Chance, Ignorance, Name

5

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

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

Maurice Strong, Canadian Businessman

5

"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

"If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance."

Mark Haddon, English Novelist

5

"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."

"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."

Ginny B. Waite, American Author

Chance, Rights, Shadows, Tyranny

5

"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."

"Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter."

Jessamyn West, American Author

Chance, Fool, Paradise

5

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."

"Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun."

Kent Nerburn, American Author

Chance, Children, Sun, Will

5

"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed."

"In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed."

William Ernest Henley, English Poet

Chance, Circumstance

5

"You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film."

"You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film."

Patrick Swayze, American Actor

Chance, Film, Magic

5

"Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard."

"Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard."

Scott McCloud, American Cartoonist

Chance, Communication, Today

5

"Even the wheel of fortune can run over you."

"Even the wheel of fortune can run over you."

Ljupka Cvetanova, Macedonian Author

Chance, Fortune, Life, Risk

5

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

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

Henry Ossawa Tanner, American Artist

4

"If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences."

"If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences."

Richard Richards, American Astronaut

Chance, Consequences, Man, Will

4

"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

"I went to college and I never allowed myself to think for an instant that I would have this chance to do this."

Mary Chapin Carpenter, American Musician

Chance, College

4

"We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them."

"We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them."

Brit Hume, American Journalist

4

"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been."

"Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been."

Arthur Ransome, British Author

4

"I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me."

"I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me."

Rick Danko, Canadian Musician

4

"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

"Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?"

Bobby Knight, American Coach

Chance, Giving, Now, Talk

4

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

"He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things."

George Savile, English Politician

Chance, Nothing, Will

4

"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment."

"In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment."

Florence Kelley, American Activist

Chance, Man, Order

4

"No man was ever wise by chance."

"No man was ever wise by chance."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

3

"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."

"He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Chance, Man, Reason, Taste

3

"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before."

"There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before."

Dave Brubeck, American Musician

Chance, Mistakes, Order, Play

3

"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

"If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence."

Paulo Coelho, Brazilian Novelist

Chance, Luck, Knowledge, Life, Curiosity

3

"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."

"All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Chance, Truth, Wisdom, Life, Power

3

"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

"Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column."

Dave Barry, American Journalist

Chance, Fact, Reading

2

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."

Henry Miller, American Author

2

"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

"With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then."

Ken Follett, Welsh Author

Chance, Hindsight, World

2

"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."

"What is the likelihood, of winning the lottery, then lose it all the next day when you step out your front door and get struck by lightning? Probably, very slim, but then anything is possible."

Anthony Liccione, American Author

Chance, Fate, Irony, Hope

2

"Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent."

"Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

Chance, Luck, Irony, Reality

2

"But chance has a taste for conspiracy."

"But chance has a taste for conspiracy."

Umberto Eco, Italian Novelist

Chance, Uncertainty, Life, Observation

2

"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."

"When the right chance to love comes in hand, you have not to let it go, It might be the last chance you would've been waiting for and when it's gone, you will never see it again."

Auliq Ice, Ugandan Economist

Chance, Love, Opportunity, Loss

1

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

"We are able to find everything in our memory, which is like a dispensary or chemical laboratory in which chance steers our hand sometimes to a soothing drug and sometimes to a dangerous poison."

Marcel Proust, French Author

Chance, Memory, Poison

1

"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."

"No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope."

William James, American Philosopher

Chance, Hope, Life, Nature

1

"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."

"On a hairpin turn, above the dead forest, on no day in particular, a white Toyota crashed into a black Mercedes, for a moment blending into a blur of gray."

Neal Shusterman, American Author

Chance, Accident, Observation, Life

1

"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

"One way to express the answer is that it might happen by 'chance'. But 'chance' is just a word expressing ignorance. It means 'determined by some as yet unknown, or unspecified, means'."

Richard Dawkins, English Scientist

Chance, Fate, Ignorance, Science

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