Chance Quotes - Page 60

To put money into anything, anywhere, provided that the downside is measurable and acceptable and the chances of a good profit appear to be better than 50%. I will not take gambles, but it is part of my job description to be ready to take very carefully calculated risks.

I used to agree with Kurt Vonnegut, who said that the human race has a snowball's chance in hell of being around a hundred years from now.

Every man, in proportion to his virtue, considers himself, with respect to the great community of mankind, as the steward and guardian of their interests in the property which he chances to possess. Every man, in proportion to his wisdom, sees the manner in which it is his duty to employ the resources which the consent of mankind has intrusted to his discretion.

If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.

The whole nostalgia thing, and just sticking with what you always liked and what you know and not taking a chance on something or expanding. I think especially after a certain age.

The Polynesians used to have a system where they proclaimed a fishing area as 'taboo.' If any fisherman was caught fishing in a taboo area, they would be killed. The Polynesians understood that the fish had to be given a chance to recover.

When I do a job, I do it 100 percent. I am so grateful for the chance to do what I do.

Just think it, and chances are it will happen.

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

I know that if I perform at a really high level, we're going to have a better chance to win.

I'd love to get a chance to talk shop with Joss Whedon. That's pretty high up there on the list.

Me and Todd? Together against the Mayor?" She smiles. "He doesn't stand a chance.

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

In war, everyone has their chance to bleed.

There are a lot of things that American fans don't know about me yet! I would say they don't know me at all, but I guess that's great because now I have the chance to surprise them and make friends.

I do think that everybody deserves a second chance.

Please let me go." "Anna." He lowered his brow to hers. "Don't ask me to do that, because I don't think I can live without you. Take a chance, roll the dice. Come with me.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

Once more there sounded within me the terrible warning that there is only one life for all men, that there is only one life for all men, that there is no other and that all that can be enjoyed must be enjoyed here. In eternity no other chance will be given to us.

I owe my life to blood donors. They went out, rolled up a sleeve and gave me another chance at life.

In TV, you usually don't get a chance to fix anything. It's always easier to cancel something than fix it.

Birth is violent, and out of that violence is our only chance of rebirth.

If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.