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As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress.
— Charles B. Rangel
I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.
— Gisele Bundchen
I take risks - that's my life on the slopes and off.
— Lindsey Vonn
Any swagger is just defense. When you're reminded so much of who you are by people - not a fame thing, but with my size, constantly, growing up - you just either curl up in a corner in the dark or you wear it proudly, like armor or something. You can turn it on its head and use it yourself before anybody else gets a chance.
— Peter Dinklage
Without a doubt, absolutely, a woman will be a president, and probably sooner rather than later. I am excited about that, and if what I did serves as a steppingstone for another woman down the course, I am very grateful to have had that chance.
— Michele Bachmann
I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they're not 20.
— Monica Bellucci
We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.
— Tammy Duckworth
In my 20s, life seemed endless. At 49, I've had a chance to see how dark life can be, and I am far more aware of the constraints of time than when I wrote 'The Kite Runner.' I realise there is only a limited number of things I can do.
— Khaled Hosseini
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
— Anthony Hopkins
From my point of view, I always want to fight until the end of my last chance.
— Pep Guardiola
There's a lot of potential that goes unused in places like South Central L.A., a lot of brilliant, smart people who just don't have that chance to show it.
— Ice Cube
I'm the one who will take chances, not worry about the backlash.
— Magic Johnson
I have to say that if our global alliances are going to be alliances with Hezbollah and Hamas and Hugo Chavez's Venezuela and Vladimir Putin's Russia, there is absolutely no chance of building a world-wide alliance that can deal with poverty and inequality and climate change and financial instability, and we've got to face up to that fact.
— Gordon Brown
When I first ran for Congress, I went to my daughter Alexandra, who was going to be a senior in high school, and said: 'I have a chance to run. I may not win, but I'd be gone three nights a week. So, if you want me to stay, I'll be happy to.' And do you know what she said to me? 'Mother, get a life!'
— Nancy Pelosi
I got the chance to be the secretary of state I'm an international relations specialist. It doesn't get better than that.
— Condoleezza Rice
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something that I knew, if I made the NFL, I would financially have the ability to do.
— J. J. Watt
I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all.
— James Arthur
I like the songs that are fun, that aren't gonna change the world - I've some of those - but even something like, 'You Should Be Here,' that was my chance to say, 'Look, this is me, too. I'm just a normal person.'
— Cole Swindell
I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I served with. It's one of the best things I've had a chance to do.
— Adam Driver
You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.
— Kendall Jenner
I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm at now.
— Stipe Miocic
Bottom line: If you can't spare some time to give your employees the chance to wow you, you'll never get the best from them.
— Jason Fried
I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
— Daniel Cormier
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.
— Mary Roach
I had a chance to choose a couple different places and, well, I grew up - I was a small-town kid from Illinois, so No. 1, just trying to win a championship for my home state.
— Ben Zobrist
I'm glad I had a chance to see great music played up close and live. In a way, that's what I hope my show does. It's almost like an acoustic evening with Mick Foley.
— Mick Foley
At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It's a cliche, but it's underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.
— Leonard Cohen
Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.
— Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The British Fashion Awards gives us the chance to commend not only the winners but celebrate all of the individuals that contribute to the incredible achievements that make London the best fashion destination in the world.
— Natalie Massenet
Our daughter was not damaged or hurt in any way. She was simply relinquished to foster care by two people who were not ready to be parents. I admire them for giving her the chance for a better life. And I am grateful they gave my husband and me the opportunity to be parents.
— Nia Vardalos
You just have to be prepared because in the Premier League, you are not always going to have more than once chance to score. When it comes your way, you have to be ready to take that chance. If you're not calm, you know it might not come again.
— Diego Costa
My favorite hobby is writing and recording songs at my studio. I like to surf, but I don't get a chance to do that as much as I'd like. I don't live close to the beach. I also like to ski, but I don't get to do that much, either.
— Scott Weiland
I remember when I was like, 'I want to get another shot.' And some of the other actors on 'Sister, Sister' were like, 'Do you know that's like a 1%, 2% chance for you to get another successful show? That just doesn't happen.' But whenever I hear, 'No,' or 'You can't,' something inside of me just goes, 'Oh no, yes I can!'
— Tia Mowry
It's an honor to have been considered for the team, and I hope that in the future I will have the chance to represent my country by playing for U.S.A. Basketball.
— Kawhi Leonard
You don't have to be a believer in Jesus Christ to be a gracious individual and understand that everybody messes up and that most are looking for a second chance.
— Shawn Michaels
We need somebody to give us a chance.
— Tony Dungy
Great risks come in long term, tremendously assiduous, very courageous study.
— William Hurt
I was taking hitting clinics every chance I got. I really worked on it. It was just fun to be given that invitation from the director to make the baseball as good as we can.
— D. B. Sweeney
If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.
— Jack Nicholson
If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.
— Mario Andretti
I never went to film school, so I never had the chance to be rejected.
— Wes Craven
I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
— Arnold Palmer
'Encore' was an experiment. 'Encore' was the second chance at a first impression. 'Encore' was not completely planned.
— Hunter Hayes
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
— Bo Bennett
I don't get a chance to be funny with the thrillers. I like to be funny, and I think I am really funny. So with 'Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life', it was fun to let loose.
— James Patterson
Man is simply the best chance we know of that matter has had of providing itself with information about itself.
— Italo Calvino
I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them.
— Rick Riordan
Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.
— Anthony Fauci
Living is risking.
— Jeanne Moreau
I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
— Adrian Tomine
Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.
— Gail Sheehy
There's a good chance that if you're talking to me when I'm snoring, it means I'm bored.
— Garry Shandling
I think for a lot of people, bowling is sort of a joke. But I love it, and it means a lot to me, so any chance to help promote it or celebrate it or not make the hackiest jokes - 'Bowlers are like plumbers and they wear the craziest shirts!' - I'm way into.
— Chris Hardwick
Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
— Baltasar Gracian
To work all the time is to be incredibly lucky.
— Harvey Fierstein
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!
— Anatole France
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
— Anatole France
When a man has no reason to trust himself, he trusts in luck.
— E. W. Howe
I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
— Samuel Goldwyn
And when I was saying I want to become number one of the world and I was 7, 8 years old, most of the people were laughing to me. Because you know, it seemed like I have one percent chances to do that. And I've done it.
— Novak Djokovic
The true statesman is the one who is willing to take risks.
— Charles de Gaulle
When the phone started ringing too many times, I had to take it back to what I can handle. I take my chances on a job or a person as opposed to a situation. I don't like to have a situation placed over my head.
— Bill Murray
Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.
— Tom Peters
To be on this set today, I feel very blessed for the second chance and for the opportunity, my record company believing in me and everybody here just showing me so much love and support.
— Brandy Norwood
When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.
— Nhat Hanh
However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
— Havelock Ellis
I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right.
— Paula Radcliffe
The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.
— Kyle MacLachlan
Every business and every product has risks. You can't get around it.
— Lee Iacocca
Things happen to us in unpredictable ways, but the effect that that has on the kind of people who we become actually is not only open to chance - we can influence it in pretty profound ways.
— Clayton M. Christensen
There is the morass, wherein you plunge up to your knees, or the walking over the stubborn, dwarfish shrubbery, whereby one treads down the forests of Labrador; and the unexpected bunting or sylvia which perchance, and indeed as if by chance alone, you now and then see flying before you, or hear singing from the ground creeping plant.
— John James Audubon
It's sad when you see most of your friends in the business gone, like Tommy Cooper, Frankie Howard, Eric Morecambe, Roy Castle, Les Dawson. They were very dear to me. You no longer have the chance to bump into them at a celebrity do.
— Bruce Forsyth
I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
— Cyndi Lauper
I think people who are not rich can be extremely happy. And I think the chances to be happy in this new world - with many more opportunities to be creative, to be online, to educate yourself - there'll be a lot more chances to be happy. It's not to say everyone will take them, but there will be a lot of new paths to opportunity.
— Tyler Cowen
I was very lucky - it wasn't a question of being wealthy my father was just extremely lucky with the couple of jobs he got. So we got a chance to travel when nobody else could travel.
— Romesh Gunesekera
To be successful, one must take chances.
— Willie Stargell
I come from nothing. When I got a chance to make some money, I was like, 'Man, I'm not ever going back.'
— Juicy J
There's a good chance that in 40 years, after the floods, people zipping by on scavenged jetpacks with their scavenged baseball caps on backwards, I will be in my rocking chair saying bitterly, 'I remember when 'all right' was two words.'
— Elizabeth McCracken
According to a new survey, 40 percent of adults in Mexico say they would move to the United States if they got a chance. The number would have been higher, but the other 60 percent already live here.
— Conan O'Brien
Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.
— Wislawa Szymborska
Cheap labor is a small part of the problem at work here. If it were only cheap labor, America would be in trouble. Because it's other things, too, we have a great chance to turn it around. Here's the problem: Our high corporate tax rate pushes our companies offshore. Our high regulatory burden pushes our companies offshore.
— Peter Navarro
I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.
— Sean Connery
I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
— Rosamund Pike
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.
— Tom Hiddleston
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
— Vince Cable
I guess I've always been attracted to people who stand out as individuals - people who are adventurous and take chances.
— Carmen Electra
It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.
— Peter Ackroyd
I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.
— Gerard Butler
There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
When I get a chance to power jump off both legs, I can lean, twist, change directions and decide whether to dunk the ball or pass it to an open man. In other words, I may be committed to the air, but I still have some control over it.
— Julius Erving
Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.
— Charles Kuralt
The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team.
— Jerry Jones
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.
— Jo Nesbo
No press conference announcing a last film. I'd just steal away. Best way because, if by chance after two or three years something interesting comes up, I would not - like Sinatra - have to say: 'Well, I've thought it over and decided to come back.'
— Sophia Loren
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
— Ken Follett
I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World I've been on TV and had three TV series. 
— R. L. Stine
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
— Tom Clancy
Luck always favours the brave. And you must remember that brave are the people who follow their heart brave are the people who take chances in life. Which also means you have to say no sometimes. I believe the power of no is greater than yes. 
— Preity Zinta
You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.
— Andrew Bird
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
— Christopher Morley
When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.
— David Sanborn
You can't just count on becoming a syndicated cartoonist. I actually tried to calculate the odds once, and the best I could come up with is a 1-in-36,000 chance. And the odds of getting hit by lightning are 1 in 7,900 - which kind of shows how long those odds are.
— Stephan Pastis
Somerset desperately needs more high-end music making on its doorstep, so the chance to share great music spanning genres as diverse as orchestral classics, trip hop and jazz, in the utterly relaxed and cathartic environment of a Somerset field, is for me the fulfilment of a long-term dream.
— Charles Hazlewood
This ultimate fighting stuff is something I don't agree with. Once a man is down, you have to let him have a chance to prove how good he is.
— Joe Frazier
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
— Tacitus
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
— Terence
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
— Brian May
Medicine will be personalized and preventive: Your genome might predict that you have an 80 percent chance of breast cancer by the time you are 50, but if you take a preventive drug starting when you are 40, the chance will drop to 2 percent.
— Leroy Hood
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
— Barbara Boxer
I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more willing to take a chance to read something if it's cheaper - sometimes books on the Kindle are $6. A hardback book is $25. For $25, it better be a really great book. Or you're going to be mad.
— Caroline Leavitt
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
— Sydney Smith
When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory. After three weeks, I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life.
— Ivana Trump
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
— Richard Eyre
I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
— John Sculley
I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
— S. Truett Cathy
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
— William Cowper
Teachers have a chance to mold someone, inspire them. I hope all teachers realize that.
— Kevin James
When I left for college, I told myself that this was a chance for reinvention. No one on the other side of the country knew that I was an introvert, so maybe if I tried not acting like an introvert, I wouldn't be one.
— Andrea Seigel
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
— Patricia Ireland
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom.
— Cat Cora
I signed schoolboy forms for Watford when I was 12, but then my parents got divorced, and I never kicked a ball for three years. I rebelled, I left home, but getting back into football sorted me out. It was the second chance I needed.
— Vinnie Jones
When an animal dies, it gives you the chance to love another animal. That's an insightful and profound way to look at it.
— Jon Katz
When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve.
— Eugene Cernan
I'm quite old-fashioned. I like going out to dinner. You have the chance to talk to somebody and get to know them better.
— Harry Styles
I did a film which was considered an independent movie with Dustin Hoffman and Andy Garcia called Confidence, and that's the type of film I was willing to take a chance on that because of the caliber of people involved with the film.
— Morris Chestnut
You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.
— Steve Guttenberg
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
— Stephen Leacock
You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.
— Tracey Gold
In a fit at the bookstore one day, I bought all my favourite composers' biographies: Schubert, Massenet, Wolf. I've still not had a chance to read them; it breaks my heart. But when you travel so much, you just can't take that many books with you.
— Danielle de Niese
I was overjoyed when I was offered the title role in 'Well Done Abba.' I was ready for the role even before I heard the story because you don't ask questions when it is Shyam Benegal's film. It is the chance of a lifetime.
— Boman Irani
You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.
— James Sinegal
But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.
— Melinda Gates
I think all of us certainly believed the statistics which said that probably 88% chance of mission success and maybe 96% chance of survival. And we were willing to take those odds.
— Alan Shepard
It's not about failure it's about trying something and risking something for attaining your goal.
— Carol Alt
I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
— Namie Amuro
When you have the chance to play a Champions League final, you have to win it.
— Gianluigi Buffon
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
— John Thune
So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
— Duane G. Carey
We can all be proud of our men and women in the military who are following their orders, carrying out their missions and sacrificing so much to give the Iraqi people a chance for a more peaceful and prosperous future.
— Ron Kind
I think everyone should live in New York City if they ever get the chance at least once in their life. It's such a great place to live there's a different energy about living in the city.
— Odette Annable
I sensed my chance and embraced the telecom business. I started marketing telephones, answering/fax machines under the brand name Beetel, and the company picked up really fast.
— Sunil Mittal
For people who have heart disease, statins are great. But if all you've had is high cholesterol, what you're doing is taking this 1/100 chance of getting a benefit and offsetting it with 1/200 chance of getting diabetes.
— Eric Topol
I love taking chances.
— Wayne Newton
My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
— Blair Underwood
You get so tied up with the minutiae of the day-to-day, there's never a chance to sit back and let your subconscious run wild.
— Eric Betzig
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
— Paul Harvey
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
— Hugh Mackay
I'm always on tour, so I'm always trying new tracks out live before they're released. That's more necessity than anything, because I don't get a proper chance to sit in a studio and work on tracks like other producers do.
— Skrillex
I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
— Vijender Singh
If you know you can do it - if you can already chart every day in your future - then why bother? Choose to do something you have more trouble imagining. Take a chance.
— Gina Barreca
I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.
— Picabo Street
Back when I was a senior in high school in Haughton, LA, I had a chance to go to LSU. Everyone I grew up with adored LSU, including my mom. But I chose to come to Mississippi State because I wanted to start a new tradition instead of perpetuating an established one.
— Dak Prescott
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
— John Polkinghorne
Luck relies on chance, labor on character.
— Richard Cobden
My job is to give my team a chance to win.
— Nolan Ryan
In using chance operations, the mind is enriched.
— Merce Cunningham
People react differently to hearing 'Procedure X has a 70 percent chance of survival' and 'Procedure Y has a 30 percent chance of death.' Phrased that way, people flock to Procedure X, even though the numbers are the same.
— Paul Kalanithi
As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.
— Leo Durocher
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
— Billie Holiday
We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.
— Dianne Feinstein
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
— Keith Jarrett
Who I was back then, when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' is so different from who I am now. Coming off Laguna, being 19 years old, and thrown into this odd, ridiculous spotlight, wasn't for me. There have always been haters, and people don't want to give you a chance or the benefit of the doubt, but this show gave me an opportunity.
— Stephen Colletti
Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.
— George Steinbrenner
As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.
— Stefan Edberg
We determine whether a book is for boys or girls long before the reader gets a chance to decide: we package them with soldiers and ballet slippers on their covers, war machines and glittering gowns.
— Marie Lu
There is a certain sense in which I would say the universe has a purpose. It's not there by chance.
— Roger Penrose
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
— Arianna Huffington
I enjoy being on stage with other artists. I have a chance to watch and see people responding to the other artists songs. I get to see how people are affected by the music.
— Steven Curtis Chapman
I just have to take my chances like any other composer.
— Gordon Getty
I play knowing that there is somebody watching me out there in the crowd that has never had the opportunity to watch a game before and it might be the only chance they ever to see one, live in person. Michael Jordan once said that in an interview, and I really took it to heart; whenever I step on the floor, I play for that person.
— Tyson Chandler
For me, growing up in Los Angeles in the '90s, Huell Howser was the most consistently watchable entertainer on TV. I was more of a radio geek as a teenager, but Huell I watched whenever I got the chance. A lot of us did.
— James Adomian
I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.
— Ian Rush
I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different.
— Viola Davis
I like chance meetings - life is full of them. Every day, without realising it, I pass people whom I should know.
— Krzysztof Kieslowski
I believe as a born-again Christian that once you've had a chance to drink from the well, it becomes your responsibility to replenish the well.
— Daniel Baldwin
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
— Theophile Gautier
I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.
— Adam Arkin
I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.
— Thia Megia
But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
— Steve Spurrier
I started out Ice skating with 'Holiday On Ice' and just got offered the part of R2 by chance.
— Kenny Baker
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.
— Dave Navarro
A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.
— Doug Collins
I want to get to a point in my career where I can be a role model. A good one. I want to say, 'I got here without drugs, and I got here without drinking or smoking. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt.' I really want kids to have a chance in life.
— Chad Michael Murray
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
— Maurice Maeterlinck
I assure you I will not miss the chance to show you that you were right when you voted for me.
— Traian Basescu
The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.
— W. G. Sebald
To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.
— W. G. Sebald
When 'The Sound of Music' aired live on NBC, 18 million people were talking about theater the next day. That's incredible. 'Grease' felt like a chance for me to participate in that landscape.
— Thomas Kail
One of the challenges of being a director is often you don't get to work with your peers. You know, writers can write together, and as a director you get to work with so many wonderful actors and writers and designers. But it's pretty rare that you get a chance to partner in that way with another director.
— Thomas Kail
My pride at being a member of the theater community is deep, and we have a chance to reach a lot of people who might feel like there's a place for them. I want theater to be part of the cultural conversation and be on par with all mediums of television in its ability to be relevant.
— Thomas Kail
Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.
— Joan Kirner
I've loved Leia and Han since I was seven years old. Getting a chance to tell some of their adventures? Mind-blowing on every level. I wish I could go back in time and high-five my baby self.
— Claudia Gray
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
— Dinah Shore
In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.
— N. K. Jemisin
I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.
— Ariel Garten
There's talent on the streets, kids with ideas who have stories to tell and never get a chance.
— James Jannard
It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.
— Wendy O. Williams
Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.
— William Petty
I saw this movie 'The Right Stuff' when I was in college, and it really rekindled my interest in being an astronaut. I started taking those steps, and then I realized it would be the chance of a lifetime. It would be a dream life: not just a job, but the whole life.
— Michael J. Massimino
He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
— Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.
— Greg Maddux
People under siege turn to us in complete frustration and I get a chance to go in when it's do or die.
— Curtis Sliwa
Somehow, people get very nervous about leaving the comfortable life of rules behind and never take the chance to develop their own internal voice, to listen to their own consciousness.
— Michael Masser
Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.
— Doug Stanhope
If I've been dating someone for, say, five months, and she cheats on me, I don't think it would be worth it. I'm not committed enough to the situation to give her a second chance.
— Avan Jogia
I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
— Dwight Gooden
Going on the road for long stretches can seem daunting, and I certainly miss being home sometimes, but the chance to see so many different cities, let alone perform in them, is something I am really grateful for.
— John Mulaney
The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.
— Mink Stole
I can go to a movie theater and watch a movie I was in with an audience... but with television, the opportunity to meet the fans at Comic Con or any other situation, it's a chance to enter that circle; it's that sharing.
— Mark Sheppard
'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.
— Judith Hill
But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance, but depends upon objective conditions, upon the amount of socially necessary labor time contained in the coat and in the linen respectively.
— Rudolf Hiferding
I learned the hard way that people are quick to judge, will jump at the chance of a cheap ego boost at another's expense.
— Sharon Bolton
I look back upon graduate school as being a very happy period in my life. The chance to be thoroughly immersed in physics and to be surrounded by friends pursuing similar goals was a marvelous experience.
— David Lee
I figure this current era of history is the one with the best chance of quality of life for a black, female, disabled, middle-aged, queer person who's most comfortable not fitting in. The odds still aren't great, mind you. But I'll take my chances with the 21st century.
— Nalo Hopkinson
One of the fantastic things about books, fiction or non-fiction, is the way they give you a chance to look into different lives.
— Gillian Cross
One of the values of centering prayer is that you are not thinking about God during the time of centering prayer so you are giving God a chance to manifest. In centering prayer there are moments of peace that give the psyche a chance to realize that God may not be so bad after all. God has a chance to be himself for a change.
— Thomas Keating
This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.
— Bill Delahunt
A dream will always triumph over reality, once it is given the chance.
— Stanislaw Lem
All I demand for the black man is, that the white people shall take their heels off his neck, and let him have a chance to rise by his own efforts.
— William Wells Brown
Practice every time you get a chance.
— Bill Monroe
The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.
— Hugh Douglas
You know you have more to offer, and it gets frustrating when you aren't given the chance.
— Mindy Cohn
Parikrma aims to give underprivileged children an equal chance at education so they can integrate with kids of private schools and, later, with the society. I want these children to hold high-end jobs at multinational companies and not work at the lower end of the spectrum.
— Shukla Bose
By giving the public a rich and full melody, distinctly arranged and well played, all the time creating new tone colors and patterns, I feel we have a better chance of being successful. I want a kick to my band, but I don't want the rhythm to hog the spotlight.
— Glenn Miller
Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It'just wonderful.
— Gene Krupa
Chance is the one thing you can't buy. You have to pay for it and you have to pay for it with your life, spending a lot of time, you pay for it with time, not the wasting of time but the spending of time.
— Robert Doisneau
If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.
— Raymond Aubrac
Sometimes people walk into plays by accident - they don't even know what they're looking at they just think to give it a chance. That can be the beginning of a long friendship.
— Dylan Baker
Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation in the biosphere.
— Jacques Monod
I was a military spouse, and I lived on military pay. It is very difficult to do that. But we do that with honor and with gratitude for the chance to serve this country.
— Carol Shea-Porter
Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.
— Trevor Brooking
Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.
— Melody Beattie
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
— Melody Beattie
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
— Oprah Winfrey
I have a lot to be thankful for. I am healthy, happy and I am loved.
— Reba McEntire
Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
— Ralph Marston
If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.
— Meister Eckhart
Let me encourage you to get up every day and focus on what you do have in life. Be thankful for the blessings of the little things, even when you don't get what you expect.
— Victoria Osteen
Whatever we are waiting for - peace of mind, contentment, grace, the inner awareness of simple abundance - it will surely come to us, but only when we are ready to receive it with an open and grateful heart.
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.
— William Blake
Thank you for life, and all the little ups and downs that make it worth living.
— Travis Barker
I'm thankful for every moment.
— Al Green
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
— Willie Nelson
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns I am thankful that thorns have roses.
— Alphonse Karr
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.
— Henry Ward Beecher
When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life.
— Suze Orman
Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.
— Aesop
I am what I am thanks to my mother, my father, my brother, my sister... because they have given me everything. The education I have is thanks to them.
— Ronaldinho
I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
— Gabby Douglas
Talent is God-given be humble. Fame is man-given be thankful. Conceit is self-given be careful.
— Harvey Mackay
I am even thankful for the negative things that have made me a stronger and better person.
— Joanna Krupa
Let us be grateful to the mirror for revealing to us our appearance only.
— Samuel Butler
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
— Elbert Hubbard
I'm very thankful to all my fans for their constant love and support. I am what I am because of their unconditional love.
— Mahesh Babu
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
— Jacques Maritain
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
— H. L. Mencken
I am very thankful and blessed to have a healthy and happy baby boy and baby mama.
— Eric Church
None of us got to where we are alone. Whether the assistance we received was obvious or subtle, acknowledging someone's help is a big part of understanding the importance of saying thank you.
— Harvey Mackay
No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude.
— Alfred North Whitehead
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
— W. Clement Stone
Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
It's ironic that when you go through a tragedy, you appreciate more. You realize how fragile life is and that there are so many things to still be thankful for.
— Adam Grant