Chance Quotes

Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

Euripides

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Euripides

If by chance people would still offer me roles, I'd still like to do them. But if not, that's OK.

Emmanuelle Riva

Worldwide is an overused word. But it's true that being known has given me new ideas and a chance to get to know new people who think in different ways. I want to hear myself referred to as Elie Saab, without labels or titles.

Elie Saab

The world has conducted a massive macro-economic experiment since the cataclysm of 2008. In Europe, the fans of austerity have had their chance, and the results have been a disaster.

Eliot Spitzer

Just before I got down here I had a chance to see Agassi play another game and he smoked another player, which was nice to see. Someone who a lot of people thought couldn't come back and now he's winning.

Elvis Stojko

We used to think that the enterprise was the hardest customer to satisfy, but we were wrong. It turns out, consumers are harder than the enterprise because the consumer will not give you a second chance.

Eric Schmidt

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.

Ezra Stiles

You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

Earl Weaver

In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

Earl Weaver

When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.

Eberhard Weber

Why if I had half a chance, I could make an entire movie using this stock footage. The story opens on these mysterious explosions. Nobody knows what's causing them, but it's upsetting all the buffalo. So, the military are called in to solve the myste...

Ed Wood

Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.

Elizabeth Warren

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

It's frustrating at times when you think you've earned a chance to play on the field and you're over there sitting on the bench. That's not the kind of player I am. I'm the kind of player who wants to be out there on the field and needs to contribute...

Freddy Adu

Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a tra...

Fred Barnes

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

Fred Brooks

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Frank Moore Colby

Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

Frank Gifford

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

Francois Hollande