Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Brown

The markets have been pinning their hopes on improved chances of speedier tax cuts and structural reforms that would speed up the road to faster German recovery, ... Investors would tend to give a grand coalition the thumbs down, as reforms would be put on ice.

The meet was well-organized and put together. And I think we would go back to it. It gives us a chance to run the individual events.

James Vaughn

The media always covers these things, so another chance to get your message out is always good, even if it's only one quote in part of a story.

Kara Hayward

In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.

Joyce Carol Oates

Much in our lives is chance.

Richard Dawkins

We have seen that living things are too improbable and too beautifully 'designed' to have come into existence by chance.

Paul Valery

That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

Mel Brooks

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Pliny the Elder

Chance is a second master.

Rene Descartes

If I go for the alternative which is false, then obviously I shall be in error; if I take the other side, then it is by... chance that I arrive at the truth, and I shall still be at fault.... In this incorrect use of free will may be found the privation which constitutes the essence of error.

Sarah Dessen

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop them in midstream. But it was even worse when you knew in that very moment that there was still time to save yourself, and yet you couldn't even budge.

Sandra Day O'Connor

This chance will stand before you only once.

Robert Silverberg

Never pass by a chance to shut up.

Richard Price

I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

Robert Southwell

Times go by turns, and chances change by course, from foul to fair, from better hap to worse.

Warren Buffett

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can

Virginia Woolf

Nothing, I know, had any chance against death.

Wayne Rooney

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

Wayne Newton

I love taking chances.

Viggo Mortensen

To strive for something better - at least there's a chance.

Sally Field

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me -- the chance of failure.

Stephen Schwartz

....Everyone deserves a chance to fly!

Vaclav Havel

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then, when you have the chance to do it better, refuse to go near it.

Stephen King

Bad chances were better than no chances.

Sylvia Plath

I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.

Steve Scott

Happiness is not bought by money, but it can buy circumstances and conditions that improve the chances of a worldly kind of happiness.

Steve Guttenberg

You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.

Tommy Mottola

I had the chance to work with Michael Jackson who was as brilliant as they come.

Shawn Johnson

There's always a chance. Anything can happen.

Taye Diggs

I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

Sean William Scott

I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

Lena Horne

The best thing about living... Is the chance to keep on doing it!

Terry Pratchett

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.