Quotes about Chance

“Being sporty at heart, I've wanted to learn football since I was a child. But I never got the chance because, growing up, my family didn't have the finances for extra-curricular activities.”

“I was still playing basketball and baseball - everything else I wanted to do as a kid. Modeling was a chance to get out of school early and go into the city.”

“I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.”

“From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.”

“The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.”

“I am constantly struggling to show people that there is more to me than my appearance. You do have to try and overcome those hurdles. Female actresses need to be given the chance to be more than how they look.”

“If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.”

“A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”

“Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.”

“I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.”

“If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.”

“Good lawyers win so-so lawsuits. Great lawyers can win lawsuits in which you have little or no chance to win.”

“I've always enjoyed dancing, and I train myself in it. I try to hone my skills whenever I get the chance.”

“When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.”

“The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.”

“I know I don't look edgy, but I have found that in my personality, I just have this natural energy that I enjoy edgier characters, and I really want a chance to sink my teeth into something like that.”

“When I went to art school, I was just having fun. I realised that was the last chance I had, and then I would have to get a job.”

“I've learned the importance of changing people's minds at the grassroots level so that whoever does run will have a much better chance of encountering public opinion that reaches a critical mass and brings about a change not only in White House policies but in the Congress and in the state legislatures and all around the world.”

“We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.”

“There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.”

“We want to do something important in the World Cup, and hopefully I have the chance. If not, well, life goes on, I'll keep working the same way and supporting my teammates.”