Famous Quotes & Sayings

Iris Apfel

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.

George Sand

Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance.

Jean Chatzky

Turn down offers for new cards or credit line increases on your current cards. Credit's tight, and chances are, you're not getting many offers anyway. But if you do, remember that the less credit you have available, the less trouble you can get into.

Frances Mayes

The Only Thing More Surprising Than the Chance She's Taking...Is Where It's Taking Her!

Frances Mayes

Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.

George W. Bush

I reads every chance I can gets.

He's very fast, and we had a scrimmage in Cobleskill and he looked very good. He has a chance to be our featured back.

He took over the game. He made everyone out there look like they had no chance of guarding him. He's unbelievably fast. He can finish at the rim. He can shoot. He just played his game tonight.

He's underrated as an outfielder -- his readings are good and he knows when to take a chance and when not to.

He told me I had a 20 percent chance of making it, but, 20 is better than 19. You got to take what you have and go.

Benjamin Franklin

He that knows nothing of it, may by chance be a Prophet; while the wisest that is may happen to miss. The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach, the rich man to get a stomach for his meat.

He's won some games for us. He gives us a chance to win every night.

Rafael Furcal

He swings so easy. When he's healthy, he's one of the greatest players there is. He can do everything on the field. If he's healthy, we've got a chance to go to the World Series.

He's very well. He did a very nice piece of work. The better the ground, the better chance he will have. He doesn't seem to travel and jump so well on heavy or testing ground.

Drew Stubbs

He threw a great game. We had our chances to score and that's probably my fault we didn't, but you still have to give him credit.

He's looking good on the side. I think for most everybody here, the issue is keeping him healthy and getting him a chance to show what he can do.

Dwight Howard

He's a pretty talented player, but he hasn't had a chance to show his talent. I think it's just opportunity. He gets another opportunity down here. Hopefully he'll look at it as a chance to play.

He's an elite player in this league. It's good he got a chance to go up. It means that he's ready to go up and do well again.

He said, from a public relations perspective, all of the things you would script if you had a chance to script it -- and they didn't have a chance to script it.

Dave Roberts

He's a hell of a back. We just tried to get him to fight through this because it always comes around. I think he felt he didn't have a chance and wasn't going to play no matter what he did.

He said there is a chance of a major hurricane striking the Gulf Coast. That percentage chance is at 47 percent.

Lauren Bacall

Generally women are better than men -- they have more character. I prefer men for some things, obviously, but women have a greater sense of honor and are more willing to take a chance with their lives.

Garcia kept us in there and gave us a chance to win.

Sylvester Croom

Georgia Tech is a very good football team as well, ... We do have a chance to win, and we are going down there with the intentions of winning the football game.

Paul Tagliabue

George Young (former Giants general manager) always that when he was a member of the competition committee that one thing replay does is multiply the chances to make errors.

George would say every year, 'Well, we know 18 (NFL teams) don't have a chance,' and that's because their front offices were so messed up. When you have good ownership, it filters all the way down. But if all that up there is bad, you don't have a chance in this league. This thing is tough enough even when you have good leadership.

Gary Lineker

You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.

Brett watched him and said I shouldn't have too much trouble. I like the quarterfinals in the morning and the semifinals at night. It gives me a chance to relax and hang out with my friends. I'm a senior, so this is the last time.

Brett could play, but there's no sense in risking it. This gives Clay and Riley a chance to do some things.

Craig Smith

Brooke looked very good. It was the first meet and she and the others had a chance to get the butterflies out.

BPB may have a valid point and they may be able to get a higher bid. The chances are they'll talk to each other and come up with a price. The fit is clear.

Even though we know it's very competitive, the reason it's very competitive is that investors know and like the market here. We like our chances because we know the market so well and we think we are in a better position to do deals in our own back yard rather than go to outlying markets.

Tony Wilson

Even though we got down, I felt that we were seeing their pitcher really good and if our kids were patient, that we would have a good chance to get back in it. And we did.