Chance Quotes - Page 14

Virtue, vain word, futile shadow, slave of chance! Alas! I believe in thee!

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one's life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.

The best stuff happens when you take a chance. When you risk something and do the thing that the other people are taking a chance on, on a network kind of level, they will be rewarded. You know, risk-reward.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

I've loved someone since I was seventeen but I can't have him and I can't give him up. So until I can do that no one else will stand a chance.

You have only one chance to raise your child.

I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.

You have risen with all power in Your hands. You have given me a second chance. Hallelujah, hallelujah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m not going back, I’m moving ahead. Here to declare to You my past is over in You. All things are made new, surrendered my life to Christ. I’m moving, moving forward.

Do not always prove yourself to be the one in the right. The right will appear. You need only give it a chance.

History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one or that one to be opened for us, but through every gate are a thousand more. We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us.

God casts the die, not the dice.

The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed.

In the armed forces, the chances of success are quite high. That's due to the clarity of the military structure - everything is sketched out. In politics, there are many more surprises and detours, and it's a lot more unpredictable.

Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Life isn't easy, life isn't fair, when you get your chance, make sure you take it.

I've always been one to take chances and I've always been one to, to create or follow through with instincts.

My strategy is not to give them a chance to hit me.

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.

All the blues greats took chances and developed their own style. They didn't copy.

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

Instead of jumping at the chance to be offended, choose to be amused. Rather than filling your thoughts with resentment, fill your heart with forgiveness.

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change

I check my pulse and if I can find it, I know I've got a chance

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

I love songwriting. It's second to my love for singing in how I express myself.