Chance Quotes - Page 42

Considering that I'm British and I talk the way I do, I love it when a director takes a chance on me.

A lot of people, given the chance, would blow up everything, and you and me.

Nothing must be left to chance in a magical performance. Everything conducive to enhancing the mystery of the illusions must be arranged with painstaking care and thought.

Who is the person in my life for whom my presence allowing them to have a true second chance, allowing them to have an authentic relationship, who is the person for whom if I do that, their life can be changed for the better? That's something we can do right now with the people right next to us.

When people come to see my stand-up, they get a chance to see my characters interact with each other.

I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.'

It's funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists' goals.

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance.

I've only myself to blame for it, my impotence most of all and my weakness. If I do any good work now it will be only by chance.

Sometimes people can't see past us to hear our message. We never have a second chance to leave a first impression.

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

To admit that there is any such thing as chance, in the common acceptation of the term, would be to attempt to establish a power independent of God.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

Reading words puts them in your mind. You never forget. Even when you don't get a chance to dwell on the music, you can hear it in your head.

Only the element of chance is needed to make war a gamble, and that element is never absent.

This tremendous friction which cannot, as in mechanics, be reduced to a few points, is everywhere in contact with chance, and brings about effects that cannot be measured just because they are largely due to chance.

I never do anything by chance.

The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed.

Given the chance, i'll die like a baby, on some faraway beach, when the season's over.

What attracts the photographer is precisely the chance to penetrate inside phenomena, to uncover forms... He pursues them into their last refuges and surprises them at their most positive, their most material and true.

I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.

You have no chance at getting a rebound unless you make it.

Twenty-eight to 31 is the tough period. You have to be really careful because it's so cataclysmic, so life-altering. People do really dramatic things like get married, or they'll get divorced. Your chances of committing suicide go way up. It's basically psychic death. You see the signs of it around 27, and you're still on the out-end of it around 31. Everyone I've talked to who's gone through that and come out the other side walks out of it like, "MY LIFE IS GREAT".

I wouldn't give Satan a snowball's chance in Hell against a woman's ego.

This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were offered me.