Quotes about Chance

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

“The optimist underestimates how difficult it is to achieve real change, believing that anything is possible and it's possible now. Only by confronting head-on the reality that all progress is going to be obstructed by vested interests and corrupted by human venality can we create realistic programmes that actually have a chance of success.”

“I realized that a lot of the things I had been telling myself about not being good enough just weren't true, and 'Queen of Denmark' gave me the chance to prove to myself that I could do something real.”

“'Playboy Magazine' has been a devil's advocate for me. Because of the image and type-casting, it's harder to convince people that I can sing. Yet, I probably wouldn't have had the chance, had it not been for Playboy.”

“A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.”

“When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.”

“As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.”

“Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail, and it is only after it has slipped through the hands of some thousands, that some fellow, by mere chance, holds on to it!”

“There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.”

“Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.”

“It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.”

“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”

“If you want to be a writer, you have to learn to write in other people's voices until you get the chance to write in your own.”

“We cannot survive if we give corruption any chance. Corruption can only exist with an umbrella from the top.”

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

“If I've got a run-out chance to win the game I want to take it.”

“If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.”

“It's one of my favorite seasons of the year: Back to School. As a kid, I loved fresh school supplies, new outfits, the change of seasons, and the chance to crack open a new textbook.”

“Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.”

“I was 19 years old, and I felt like I had the flu one day. Within 24 hours, I was in the hospital on life support, and I was given less than a 2 percent chance of living. It took five days for the doctors to find out that I had contracted bacterial meningitis.”

“I think that if you have a knack for storytelling, and you work really hard at it, you'll have a chance to tap into something deep. But the fact remains that good sentences are hard won. Any writer worth a lick knows constructing a sentence, a paragraph, or a chapter is hard work.”