Chance Quotes

All the principal people in the town are concerned in the slave trade, and their chief wealth consists in the number of slaves they possess; therefore there is little chance of the trade being, for many years, totally abolished.

George Grey

I just have to take my chances like any other composer.

Gordon Getty

It's not a random chance that we have Alanis Morissette. She didn't evolve out of a null and void. She came from a former template. She borrowed styles and sounds from a very limited set of other artists.

Greg Graffin

In general, I agree with Jacob Grimm and feel that we ought to permit changes and uncontrolled growth in language. Even though that also allows potentially threatening new words to develop, language needs the chance to constantly renew itself.

Gunter Grass

I run an academy in Spain for young footballers who are released by their clubs and who, in my opinion, deserve a second chance. It is a rewarding job for me, but one that also reveals many of the faults in the English game.

Glenn Hoddle

I'm not the type of person that could take someone else's funds and take a chance with them.

Grace Hightower

Every year you suit up, you play for a championship. Some years, some teams... it was very few times I think I played on that realistically had a chance.

Grant Hill

NBC gives comedies a chance to find their legs.

Gillian Jacobs

I just got a call one day from Ringo asking me if I wanted to go out on the tour. It was as simple as that. He was putting together this band and he heard of me in the context of doing this and he gave me a call. I jumped at the chance.

Greg Lake

I don't believe in pitfalls. I believe in taking risks and not doing the same thing twice.

Guy Laliberte

I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.

Greg Maddux

Events are not a matter of chance.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

George S. Patton

Twitter and social media have so changed the game for filmmakers, but especially for artists. It shrinks the world and gives chance to feel like they know you. But it's a blessing and a curse. It can help build you up, but there's also such anonymity...

Gina Prince-Bythewood

But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

Gordon Parks

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

George R. Roberts

Chance determines our lives in important ways.

Gerhard Richter

For me it was just more important to get the cancer out. With the double mastectomy I now have less than one per cent chance of getting it back, otherwise it was 20, 30 or 40 per cent chance and for me it wasn't worth it.

Giuliana Rancic

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

George Savile

When Hank Jones had his night off, I would get somebody to take my place as intermission pianist and I'd play the show with Ella, so I would get a chance to play with Ray Brown and Charlie Smith as well.

George Shearing

I have a novel that I can write. It's about three soldiers from Somalia. Some babies have been disappearing up on 144th Street, and I speculate later on what happened to them and how they might have been got back. These guys are dead, all three, and ...

Gil Scott-Heron