Best Chance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.”

Ifs Chance Half Audience Saws Fairs Shocked Twists Always Believe

Author:Damon Lindelof

“I didn't go to university, and so, every time that I work, I'm looking for a teacher in a way. I'm looking for people that I can learn from and to have the chance to work with people that I admire.”

People Way I Can Chance Teacher University Admire

Author:Diego Luna

“All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.”

Important Happens Chance Events Life Happens Important Events

Author:Natalia Makarova

“I got into the race and people literally laughed. They thought I had no chance of winning.”

People Winning Chance Race Laughed

Author:Patrick McHenry

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

Stills Today Form Individual Voice Chance Heard Communication Mass Mass Communication

Author:Scott McCloud

“My calling, as one imperfect human, is to celebrate and uphold life every time I get the chance.”

Humans Chance Calling Celebrate Imperfect

Author:Victoria Moran

“When you're an established name, you know that a children's book will have a pretty good chance of getting picked up. Like Madonna. It's not that I had this great idea. Actually, in my case, it was a great idea.”

Knows Children Book Ideas Names Chance Cases Great Idea Children's Books Good Chance

Author:Jo Nesbo

“Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.”

Feels Whole Song Sound Chance Simple Example Personality Tunes Bucks Straightforward Being Straightforward Bakersfield

Author:Juice Newton

“When I was I kid, there were so many different things that I wanted to be. As an actor, I get a chance to be all of those things, at least for a couple of days, which is fun.”

Different Kids Wanted Actors Fun Chance Couple Different Things

Author:Navid Negahban

“It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.”

Ifs Made Would Be Chance Fairs Pity Contact Frustrated

Book:The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

Source: The Selected Papers of Bernard M. Oliver

“If you put a woman in prison for four years when she's young and make her pay her time in a horrible place and she wants to come out and work, and become a mother and be a contributor to society and pay taxes and you never give her that chance. There is something un-Canadian about that.”

Ifs Want Giving Years Young Mother Chance Pay Four Taxes Prison Horrible Four Years Contributors

Author:Kevin O'Leary

“Anyone who makes an effort at whatever they hope to accomplish can, and will, seriously improve their chances of succeeding.”

Success Chance Effort Succeed Accomplish

Author:Richard Branson

“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.”

“Call any vegetable and the chances are good that the vegetable will respond to you.”

Chance Insanity Vegetables Chances Are

Author:Frank Zappa

“Learn to be positive, it's your only chance.”

Chance Education Being Positive

Author:Ray Davies

“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.”

Wells May Stills Today Lasts Choices Peace Community Chance Mankind Chaos Violent Annihilation Coexistence Last Chance

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“The Rulers of Russia, then, are Jewish Politicians, and they are applying to the world the doctrine of Karl Marx (Mordecai). Marx, was a clear and lucid Talmudist...full of that old Hebrew (sic) materialism which ever dreams of a paradise on earth and always rejects the hope held out of the chance of a Garden of Eden after Death.”

World Dream Earth Chance Clear Politician Garden Jew Russia Doctrine Paradise Rejects Materialism Rulers After Death Eden Hebrew Garden Of Eden Paradise On Earth

Author:Bernard Lazare

“I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.”

Thinking May Chance Company Thousand Selling Investors Chances Are Enron

Author:Arthur Levitt Jr

“Johnny Depp is one of my favorite actors because he takes chances.”

Actors Chance My Favorite Take A Chance

Author:Bai Ling

“First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.”

Firsts Has Beens Made Chance Achievement Direct Diners

Author:Barry Levinson

“Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!”

Knows Wells Eye Jobs Chance Audience Exciting Theatre One Chance

Author:Christine Lahti

“If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.”

Ifs Stories Chance Mouths

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?”

Two Given Chance Numbers Five Wife Type Months Right Now Charm Marrying

Author:Vince Neil

“I wanted to be involved in music and I felt I needed to get in quick. I didn't want to spend four years in college and then hope for the best. I gave myself a year, which is why I kept pushing people for a chance. I literally felt my whole life was in the balance. Music was my life, and I was scared of having time pass by and missing my chance.”

People Want Years Whole Wanted Felt Chance Four Missing College Needed Balance Involved Scared Whole Life Pushing Four Years Hoping For The Best Time Passes

Author:Guy Oseary

“Whenever I see something that looks like it could be good - whether it's on vinyl, CD or cassette - if it's not too expensive, I'll take a chance.”

Ifs Looks Chance Be Good Expensive Take A Chance Cds Vinyl Cassettes

Author:Will Oldham

“Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.”

Ifs Thinking Different Sometimes Hard Chance Results Mistake If I Could Making Mistakes Mentality Good Chance Different Mentality

Author:Alain Prost

“The public airwaves provide a chance to affirm we want to be a good, decent people; a good, decent nation.”

People Want Nations Chance Decent

Author:Charles W. Pickering

“The censorship is such on television in the U.S. that films like mine don't stand a chance.”

Film Chance Television Mines Censorship

Author:John Pilger

“I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.”

Ifs I Can Running Chance Wind Jail Santa Spit County Don't Trust Judicial Barbara Judicial System Santa Barbara

Author:Randy Quaid

“Chance the Rapper' is many things. I'm constantly evolving.”

Chance Evolve Rapper

Author:Chance the Rapper

“That was our first major tour and we got a chance to play in front of like 5000 people every day so it was like a Rock and Roll boot camp for us really, we learned a lot and made a lot of good friends.”

People Firsts Made Play Chance Rocks Fronts Majors Camps Boots Good Friend Rock And Roll Boot Camp

Author:Adam Rich

“If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.”

Ifs Chance Healthy Tennis If I Stay

Author:Greg Rusedski

“You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.”

Knows Want Giving Wells Kind Ideas Order Chance Answers Comedy Television Drama Give Me Series No Idea

Author:Michael J. Fox

“One of my mother's friends said to me, 'Your ex-boyfriends didn't stand a chance with you and your mother.' And I think I probably was unfair to them because she was the first person and the last person I called about every single thing. Sorry, ex-boyfriends.”

Thinking Firsts Persons Said Lasts Mother Chance Sorry Unfair Exes First Person Ex Boyfriend Your Ex

Author:Lily Rabe

“I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.”

People Writing Trying Heart Wanted Chance Organs Topics Urgency Donation Organ Donation

Author:Mary Roach

“I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.”

Able Justice Chance Injury Marathon

Author:Paula Radcliffe

“I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.”

World Mean Country Done Bigs Given Chance Forget Effort Poverty Lows Debt Income Indebted Good Chance Low Income

Author:Rodrigo Rato

“I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.”

Thinking Want Trying Made Done Chance Embarrassed Torment Another Chance

Author:Sam Raimi

“I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that.”

Writing Actors Chance Havens Direct Aspire

Author:Stephen Root

“Picking winners among the many young companies seeking money is a tough business, even for the most sophisticated investors. Indeed, most professionally run venture funds lose money. For individuals, it's pure folly. Buy a lottery ticket instead. Your chance of winning is likely to be higher.”

Running Young Winning Individual Loses Chance Company Higher Pure Tough Seeking Winner Folly Fund Investors Sophisticated Tickets Venture Lottery Lottery Ticket

Author:Steven Rattner

“If you don't score, and you have chances, you are disappointed.”

Ifs Chance Score Disappointed

Author:Wayne Rooney

“I just love to play and I get a chance to play with other musicians and I jump on it.”

Play Chance Musician

Author:Chad Smith

“I came to this country when I was twelve years old because my parents wanted to give me new opportunities to succeed. President Obama wants everyone to have the chances I had.”

Want Giving Years Country Wanted Opportunity Parent President Chance Succeed Give Me President Obama New Opportunity

Author:Cristina Saralegui

“When you're an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don't get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn't have to be in front of the camera.”

Want Persons Actors Natural Chance Fronts Direct Cameras Actresses Progression

Author:Jamie Foxx

“It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.”

Ifs Play Character Guy Opportunity Sides Dark Chance Demand Narrative Yellow That Guy Dark Side

Author:Mark Strong

“Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.”

May Might Next Found Chance Principles Becoming Republican Damage Senate Romney November Gop

Author:George Will

“It's more frustrating. My expectation probably wasn't that I'd play [during the playoffs], but I was just trying to make sure that if there was any chance that it was possible to come back that I was ready and that I'd done everything I could to be ready. It's frustrating, disappointing. But can't really control any of that.”

Ifs Trying Done Play Sports Chance Ready Training Expectations Preparation Frustrating Disappointing Playoffs

Author:Sidney Crosby

“Heaven knows what pains the author has been at, what bitter experience he has endured and what heartache suffered, to give some chance reader a few hours' relaxation or to while away the tedium of a journey.”

Knows Giving Writing Has Beens Pain Heaven Hours Chance Journey Reader Bitter Heartache Relaxation Tedium Bitter Experience

Book:The Moon and Sixpence

Source: The Moon and Sixpence

“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.”

Ifs Trying May Happiness Used Chance Steps Buddhism Pure Used To Be Motive Chances Are Meditating Skip Vibrate

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!”

Thinking Art Able Earth Literature Heaven Chance Stupid Skills Art Is Atheist Foolish Fabric Heaven And Earth Oysters

Author:Anatole France

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