Chance Quotes - Page 57

That which takes effect by chance is not an art.

I believe in second chances, but I don't believe in third or fourth chances.

I've definitely been typecast, but I have time to do other things and I was glad to have the chances I did.

We know nothing about most the people around us, yet there is always a chance they could be hugely valuable to us

I find I've always been judgmental about comedy (laughs) and it's hard to turn that off, really. But what constant exposure to live comedy does is it makes you give people a second chance.

But there was something I liked about the idea of those seeds buried so deep having at least a chance to emerge

I've given lots of people chances. But there's only so much faith you can have in people.

But if something was really important, fate made sure it somehow came back to you and gave you another chance.

I'm starting to think, though, that some things never get that. The replay, and all. So at some point you have to make peace with it as it is, not keep waiting for a chance to change it

There were endless ways to spend your days, I knew that, none of them right or wrong. But given the chance for a real do-over, another way around, who would say no?

But you only get so many do-overs in this life, so many chances to, if not change your past, alter your future.

Every day we’re given chances to embrace the new.

The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.

I'm grateful to have the chance to be inspired by the incredible artists that are out there.

I've always felt I had to prove myself, and now it has become second nature. When I first went to university, I took lodgings with a woman who said, 'What are the chances of you staining my pans?' I said, 'I don't think I understand the question...' and she said, 'When you cook your curries.'

Heads will fly all over the place, others will explode by themselves, everyone will have their chance to betray, and those who don't betray will be betrayed.

I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.

Chance is but the pseudonym of God for those particular cases, which he does not choose to acknowledge openly with his own sign manual.

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

There must always be some advantage on one side or the other, and it is better that advantage should be had by talents than by chance.

Right now what's in my mind is going up there and being disciplined. I was swinging at so many pitches out of the strike zone, and when you do that, you're not going to get a chance to hit strikes. It makes it easier for the pitcher every time I do that.

It's difficult to put your own bare ass out on the limb every time you sit down to write a poem. But that's really sort of the ideal. Because if we don't discover something about ourselves and our world in the making of a poem, chances are it's not going to be a very good poem. So what I'm saying is that a lot of our best poets could be better poets if they wrote less and risked more in what they do.

I like sleeping at the minute, I don't really get the chance to do that.

It is crucial that rappers have the chance to express the truth that is in their heart.

Whenever any argument comes up, you remind her, "You cheated on me." Your relationship has no chance. You agreed to set it aside. You accepted that it happened and you accepted her explanation and you agreed to move forward, but then as you move forward, you continue to lay that off on her, and you never let her forget. Your marriage doesn't have a chance, if you don't let it go.