Chance Quotes
A property in the 100-year floodplain has a 96 percent chance of being flooded in the next hundred years without global warming. The fact that several years go by without a flood does not change that probability.
~Earl Blumenauer
~Earl Blumenauer
A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
~Aaron Spelling
~Aaron Spelling
All I really wanted to do with that series was to give good musicians a chance to explore what Jewish music is and could be for them.
~John Zorn
~John Zorn
Anytime you have a difficult encounter with your child, there is a good chance that at least one of these factors is bringing out the worst in him or her: transitions, time pressure, competition for your attention, conflicting objectives.
~Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
~Cathy Rindner Tempelsman
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born.
~Thor Heyerdahl
~Thor Heyerdahl
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
~John Polkinghorne
~John Polkinghorne
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.
~Ovid
~Ovid
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
~Lincoln Steffens
~Lincoln Steffens
Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.
~Seneca
~Seneca
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~William Jennings Bryan
~William Jennings Bryan
Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?
~Jimmy Johnson
~Jimmy Johnson
Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he himself has a chance to speak.
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
~Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
~Lois McMaster Bujold
~Lois McMaster Bujold
However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
~Frederick Reines
~Frederick Reines
I believe that Egypt in its own way, the Palestinians when they are given a chance, and others will before long move towards greater democracy.
~Douglas Hurd
~Douglas Hurd
I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.
~Anne McCaffrey
~Anne McCaffrey
I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that.
~Steve Jobs
~Steve Jobs
I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece.
~Jan Garbarek
~Jan Garbarek
I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
~Fran Lebowitz
~Fran Lebowitz
I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that involved the right of a defendant to counsel at a critical stage in a capital case before a trial.
~Constance Baker Motley
~Constance Baker Motley
I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week.
~Claudio Reyna
~Claudio Reyna
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
~Boris Johnson
~Boris Johnson
I have quite a lot of fans in Holland because that is where my mother is from, in fact I have a fan club there, and the fans don't always get the chance to see us drive the cars because getting to races across Europe isn't always possible for them.
~Nelson Piquet
~Nelson Piquet
I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the .
~Rob Mariano
~Rob Mariano
I look at the Senior Al Gore that I had the chance to serve in the Senate with. A great human being. He went down to defeat to this right wing bunch back at the time.
~Birch Bayh
~Birch Bayh
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
~Billie Holiday
~Billie Holiday
I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
~Gary Coleman
~Gary Coleman
I plot the first 5 or 6 chapters quite minutely, and also the end. So I know where I am going but not how I'm going to get there, which gives characters the chance to develop organically, as happens in real life as you get to know a person.
~Joanna Trollope
~Joanna Trollope
I think with keeping the Invasion name, I'm remembered from that, and it will give the fans who know it, a chance to introduce me to new fans.
~Vinnie Vincent
~Vinnie Vincent
I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.
~Claudio Reyna
~Claudio Reyna
I'm really shopping for a record deal, and I haven't had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them.
~Ike Turner
~Ike Turner
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.
~Tabitha Soren
~Tabitha Soren
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
~Paul Harvey
~Paul Harvey
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
~Anne Bradstreet
~Anne Bradstreet
In front of us was not a line but a fortress position, twenty miles deep, entrenched and fortified, defended by masses of machine-gun posts and thousands of guns in a wide arc. No chance for cavalry!
~Philip Gibbs
~Philip Gibbs
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
~Ansel Adams
~Ansel Adams
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
~Florence Kelley
~Florence Kelley
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