Chance Quotes

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

Adrian Edmondson

I have been trying to point out that in our lives chance may have an astonishing influence and, if I may offer advice to the young laboratory worker, it would be this - never to neglect an extraordinary appearance or happening.

Alexander Fleming

All industry, not just the mining industry, can get out and give Aboriginal companies a chance.

Andrew Forrest

Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't las...

Anthony Fauci

I always promised myself if I ever got the chance to do a 'Flashdance'-type of movie, I would do my own dancing. I can say with pride that every single dance move in 'Go For It!' is my own dance move.

Aimee Garcia

I want to help give people the ability to stop and take just a few minutes a day to regroup and refocus: to give them a chance to get perspective on the things that matter and the things that don't.

Ariel Garten

Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.

Adam Hochschild

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

Aldous Huxley

I have about as much control over how I look as the guy who's short and looks more like a character actor - we both have the same drive to be actors and we both have the same drive to assume these different characters, it's just harder for me to get ...

Armie Hammer

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

Andrew Jackson

I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

Alicia Keys

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Abraham Lincoln

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

Alan Ladd

I used my captors' names every chance I had. It was intentional, a way of reminding them that I saw them, of pegging them, of making them see me in return.

Amanda Lindhout

For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

Ang Lee

I've got to worry about Alonzo Mourning, because a year or two ago there was a chance that Alonzo Mourning wouldn't be standing here talking to you. That's the cold reality of it.

Alonzo Mourning

I did not have a chance to write novels until my youngest child started school fulltime.

Anne McCaffrey

When we get a chance to take part in elections, I am ready to fight for leading positions, including in the presidential vote.

Alexei Navalny

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

Anna Neagle

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series.

Albert Pujols