Chance Quotes - Page 39

There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition).

Gypsy [Rose Lee ] was a masterful storyteller, and her memoir and by extension, the musical weren't only Gypsy's monument; they were also her chance for monumental revisionism.

By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to be an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.

I like when people take chances.

I don't love large groups of men. I've always felt like something terrible could happen when there were no women. If there are women around, it feels like there's less of a chance that anyone will get stabbed.

I like what is in the work -- the chance to find yourself.

After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

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.

No change, no chance.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

Necessity and chance Approach not me, and what I will is fate.

One of the things about animation is it's so expensive to do the animation, that you can't produce coverage. You only have one chance to make every shot.

The bravest men are subject most to chance.

I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.

I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.

Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new.

Any coach worth his salt will take a look at that and say, 'I'll take my chances with that'

Everyone needs a chance to evolve.

If I had a chance with him, I missed it. No, I didn't miss it. I threw it away.

She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet.

When we are on tour we also take chances.

When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.

Souness gave Fleck a second chance and he grabbed it with both feet.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.