Chance Quotes - Page 13

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

Every human interaction offers you the chance to make things better or to make things worse.

My hopes were high, and I looked every day for some change to take place. What it was to be I knew not, but that it would come I felt certain if I kept on. One day the chance came.

I sat back, allowing Wes's words to sink in. Then I responded, "I guess it's hard sometimes to distinguish between second chances and last chances.

Postulate 2. Constant systems of chance causes do exist in nature.

Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.

It seemed cruelly unfair to me, even then, how fast your life can change before you have an opportunity to rethink your choices. We should get second chances on the big stuff. We should come equipped with erasers attached to the tops of our heads. Like pencils. We should be able to flip over and scribble away mistakes, at least once or twice during the duration of our existence, especially in matters of life and death.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

Our best chance of finding God is to look in the place where we left him.

Some say opportunity knocks only once, that is not true. Opportunity knocks all the time, but you have to be ready for it. If the chance comes, you must have the equipment to take advantage of it.

So take a chance and don't ever look back.

There's a lot of money in doing score music. You can get a chance to get nominated for an Oscar.

Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

If Steinitz continually took pains to discover combinations, the success or failure of his diligent search could not be explained by him as due to chance. Hence, he concluded that some characteristic, a quality of the given position, must exist that would indicate the success or the failure of the search before it was actually undertaken.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

Tourism is our second biggest industry in terms of the people it employs.

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.

Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.

What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

People destined to meet will do so, apparently by chance, at precisely the right moment.

I'm attracted to Ferraris and Bentleys, but I don't know if I'll ever have a chance to own one of those.

While you had the chance to live, did you become your true self?

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.