Quotes on Chance

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Give me a chance to do my best.

You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses?

Do one thing every day that scares you.

If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

What do you fear, lady?" [Aragorn] asked. "A cage," [Éowyn] said. "To stay behind bars, until use and old age accept them, and all chance of doing great deeds is gone beyond recall or desire.

Die before you die, there is no chance after.

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance.

Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world.

They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.

Every time we've moved ahead in IBM, it was because someone was willing to take a chance, put his head on the block, and try something new.

We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.

A life lived of choice is a life of conscious action. A life lived of chance is a life of unconscious creation.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say 'Gentlemen' to the person with whom he is conversing.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

Cell phones tend to bring us more inside of our lives whereas movies offer a chance to escape, so there are two competing forces.

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.