“I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.” GivingFeelsPlayChanceHappenedTeamGive MeBraveLeavingBest Things Author:Danny Bautista
“I believe the bicentenary offers us a chance not just to say how profoundly shameful the slave trade was - how we condemn its existence utterly and praise those who fought for its abolition - but also to express our deep sorrow that it could ever have happened and rejoice at the better times we live in today.” BelieveTodayI BelieveChanceExistenceHappenedSorrowOffersPraiseTradeSlaveRejoiceShamefulAbolitionSlave TradeDeep Sorrow Author:Tony Blair
“Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.” KindChancePlansHappenedBusiness Plan Author:Iris Apfel
“What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.” DifficultChanceHappenedGeniusRepeatsChances Are Author:Katsuki Sekida
“Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience ... it's just chance that I happened to be here at this particular time when there was available and at my disposal the great experience of all the investigators who plodded along for a number of years.” YearsHappensChanceNumbersHappenedInformationParticularAvailableThings HappenGreat ExperiencesInvestigators Author:Jonas Salk
“When people write the history of this thing, of bitcoin, they are not going to write the story of 6 million to a billion. What is truly remarkable is the story of zero to 6 million. It has already happened! And we’re not paying attention! That’s incredible. That’s what had one chance in a million and it already happened.” PeopleWritingStoriesChanceAttentionMillionsHappenedIncrediblesBillionsPay AttentionRemarkableZeroBitcoinOne Chance Author:Wences Casares
“Jerusalem - a divided city, where demonstrations for and against various issues occur regularly. One day, during an Orthodox demonstration against autopsies, I happened to click a few frames while a young man pushed his hamsa (spread hand) into my camera, which is seen by some as 'the evil eye.' As it happened, it was the tail end of my roll of film and the image is actually a double exposure. This taught me that in spite of your careful framing, chance occurrences create the most interesting images.” MenEndsHandsEyeFilmYoungEvilChanceInterestingCitiesIssuesHappenedTaughtOne DayCamerasCarefulVariousSpreadYoung ManSpiteOrthodoxDividedTailsExposureDemonstrationMost InterestingClicksJerusalemFramingAutopsyEvil Eye Author:Micha Bar-Am
“When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFeelsWaterChanceHappenedFishesLunchSalmonBetter NowTunaSardines Book:The Life As We Knew It Collection Source: The Life As We Knew It Collection
“When we signed with Warner Bros., they knew what they were getting. They knew they weren't going to get some easily manipulated prepackaged pop group. That was not going to happen. What they wanted, I think, was the integrity that we had to offer. What they wanted was the kind of street cred or cache that R.E.M. could bring to them and the chance that we would give them a hit or two. What happened was we gave them a bunch of hits. And we became huge.” ThinkingGivingKindTwoHappensWantedChanceHappenedGroupsStreetsHugeIntegrityOffersPopsBunchBrosWarner BrosCache Author:Michael Stipe
“I believe that everybody, whether you believe in the afterlife or the chance of a near-death experience and you come back and you see someone [on the other side] - whether that has happened or not, I don't know, but certainly everyone has thought about it at some point or another in time. It's a fantasy that if there is anything out there like that, it would be just terrific, but that remains to be seen.” IfsKnowsBelieveWould BeI BelieveSidesChanceFantasyHappenedRemainsAfterlifeTerrificNear DeathNear Death Experience Author:Clint Eastwood
“I know chances are if I don't give an interview or make a public appearance or statement from time to time, they'll invent one. Every so often, I suppose people ask, 'Whatever happened to that other Beatle, George Harrison?' And someone comes around with a ready answer, no matter how preposterous it seems. It's possibly the worst price one has to pay for what they call stardom.” PeopleIfsKnowsGivingMatterSeemsAsksChanceAnswersPayHappenedWorstReadyAppearanceStatementsInterviewsChances AreStardom Author:George Harrison
“Do not say, "this happened by chance, while this came to be of itself." In all that exists there is nothing disorderly, nothing indefinite, nothing without purpose, nothing by chance ... How many hairs are on your head? God will not forget one of them. Do you see how nothing, even the smallest thing, escapes the gaze of God?” InspirationalChristianPurposeReligiousChanceForgetHappenedHairGods WillOrthodoxSmallest Author:Saint Basil
“Me being an actor was an accident, and not something I wanted to do, because I knew what happened eventually. Yeah, maybe you'd get famous, but then you wouldn't be famous anymore. Then you'd have to scramble to get back to where you were, and chances are, you wouldn't.” WantedActorsChanceHappenedYeahAccidentsGet BackChances Are Author:Carrie Fisher
“Because clearly the most amazing thing had happened: by some chance - no, the lover does not believe in chance, but destiny - destiny had arranged it so that the man and woman who had made the original whole, then somehow divided and separated by an angry God, had met up again, and now must reform the rightful, righteous whole. At once!” MenBelieveDoeMadeWholeChanceDestinyHappenedHe ManLoversMetsMen And WomenOriginalsAngryReformDividedRighteousAmazing ThingsMost Amazing Author:Fay Weldon
“The other reason might be that you want to talk to voters when you've got seven primaries in seven days. Understand what's happened in this race - where we campaign actively in a state, and voters have the chance to see me directly, they check under the hood, and they kick the tires, when we don't have as much time.” WantStatesReasonMightChanceRaceHappenedSevenCampaignsChecksPrimariesKicksVotersTireHoodSeven Days Author:Barack Obama
“It is really weird, things have just been crazy. Everything has happened so quickly I haven't had a chance to think.” ThinkingChanceHappenedCrazyHavensWeird ThingsReally Weird Author:Alex Parks
“You take a chance to do something and you realize in your heart it's either going to be the greatest thing that ever happened or the worst thing that ever happened. It won't be an in between, I almost made a hit. It will be an instant flop or an instant success.” HeartMadeRealizingChanceHappenedWorstInstantWorst ThingsTake A Chance Author:Ben E. King
“Part of the reason I am not there sooner, is that I was not allowed to go to the United States. Now I am allowed. I am so thankful I have been given a second chance and I live there and already more has happened in six months for my career then in the last ten years.” YearsHas BeensStatesReasonLastsGivenChanceUnitedCareersUnited StatesHappenedMonthsTenSixSix MonthsSecond ChanceGiven A Second Chance Author:Shane Bunting
“The beauty of what I happened by extraordinary chance to put together is that nobody would have believed that this is possible, and certainly I didn't expect that it was possible. I just moved from step to step to step.” TogetherChanceStepsHappenedMovedExtraordinary Author:Benoit Mandelbrot
“As for whether what happened in Britain improves[Donald] Trump's chances of winning, I don't think so. He has the same chances; we may just be more aware of what they are now.” ThinkingMayWinningChanceHappenedTrumpBritain Author:Christopher Michael Cillizza