Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
~By Orlando A. Battista ~
From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
~By Dick Cheney ~
We've had a chance to be seen by viewers who had never seen us before, and we've kept a lot of them.
~By Brit Hume ~
The people who run the game, they are the ones who want to change it and make people believe that it's different somehow. It's not different, the only difference is that some ballplayers today have a chance for a four- or five-year contract and they can make big money.
~By Tony Oliva ~
You will never stub your toe standing still. The faster you go, the more chance there is of stubbing your toe, but the more chance you have of getting somewhere.
~By Charles Kettering ~
I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.
~By Helena Christensen ~
Some people are very lucky, and have the story in their heads. I've never storyboarded anything. I like the idea of chance. What makes God laugh is people who make plans.
~By Nicolas Roeg ~
But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
~By Steve Spurrier ~
If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.
~By George Brett ~
This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.
~By Ronnie Milsap ~
If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.
~By Anne Bradstreet ~
But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.
~By Rick Allen ~
If your parents never had children, chances are... neither will you.
~By Dick Cavett ~
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
~By Ella Wheeler Wilcox ~
He had a way with him. Before you had a chance to say no, he was there and done. That only happened to me once before, with a duke, who literally swept me off my feet, and before I knew what was happening, we'd done it. Another terrible mistake.
~By Christine Keeler ~
I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don't feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I'm cool with the albums I've done. I don't have to put out another album.
~By Puff Daddy ~
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting picture.
~By Henry Ossawa Tanner ~
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Chance makes our parents, but choice makes our friends.
~By Jacques Delille ~
Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance.
~By Mel Brooks ~
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
~By John Gray ~
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.
~By Frederick Reines ~
I tend to do golf charity things because it's much safer and you don't get much chance of a broken arm or leg.
~By Dougray Scott ~
We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on.
~By Sonny Perdue ~
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
~By Ezra Pound ~
I took the role because it's rare to read a script that makes me laugh and cry, and it spoke to my own religious feelings, as well as giving me a chance to draw on my experience as a parent. Accepting it was a no-brainer.
~By Stephen Collins ~
The criteria for serving one's country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
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.
~By George Shearing ~
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?
~By Aaron Spelling ~
I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.
~By Aaliyah ~
Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
~By Henry Cotton ~
This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.
~By Steven Gerrard ~
I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.
~By Gene Wilder ~
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
~By Jacques Derrida ~
Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself.
~By Sarah Michelle Gellar ~
It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!
~By Alexander Woollcott ~
I never do anything by chance.
~By Brigitte Bardot ~
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
~By Tacitus ~
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.
~By Tabitha Soren ~
But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.
~By Steven Tyler ~
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.
~By Elvis Stojko ~
That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.
~By Paul Valery ~
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
~By Maurice Maeterlinck ~
America will be far safer if we reduce the chances of a terrorist attack in one of our cities than if we diminish the civil liberties of our own people.
~By Nancy Pelosi ~
I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.
~By Adam Rickitt ~
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
~By Chris Hadfield ~
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
~By Mae West ~
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
Revie said there was nothing between me and Ray yet he never gave me a chance to show what I could do.
~By Peter Shilton ~
There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.
~By Jackie Stewart ~
Getting a chance to practice six months against my own teammates, who I consider the best soccer players in the world, there's no way I couldn't improve.
~By Lorrie Fair ~
They almost ran me off the road several times. There are so many chances that they take to get the right photo.
~By Loni Anderson ~
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
~By Bo Bennett ~
News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
~By Voltaire ~
The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
~By Joe Baca ~
Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.
~By John Havlicek ~
I just basically took a chance because it looked like fun and I wanted the .
~By Rob Mariano ~
No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
~By Xenophanes ~
I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
You look at 2001, we were third in points and no one gave us much of a chance when the season started. We came back last year and had the same team, the same everybody and led points.
~By Sterling Marlin ~
We're not willing to give black leaders second chances because, in most cases, we're not willing to give them first chances.
~By Al Sharpton ~
I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.
~By Dwight Gooden ~
I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near normal life. Whilst walking I do get the chance to meet people and keep in touch.
~By David Blunkett ~
I study pitchers. I visualize pitches. That gives me a better chance every time I step into the box. That doesn't mean I'm going to get a hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a hitter.
~By Mark McGwire ~
With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
~By Josh Hartnett ~
I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
~By Sean Connery ~
With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.
~By Brett Favre ~
You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
If I put the script down more than once, there's a good chance that I probably don't want to play the part.
~By Joe Lando ~
When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.
~By Brian McKnight ~
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
~By Bart Starr ~
I believe I'm doing the right thing in trying to step away from that and to take chances and work on little independent films and do stuff like that wild dance scene.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
When we are on tour we also take chances.
~By Jan Garbarek ~
I'm probably not going to get married unless I live with somebody for 10 or 20 years. But these people (Romeo and Juliet) took a chance and they did it. We don't have the balls that Romeo did.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.
~By Frank Sinatra ~
War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
~By Sophocles ~
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
~By Suzanne Farrell ~
Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.
~By Tatyana Ali ~
I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
~By Barry Bostwick ~
It's great to have the chance to play a character before he goes to the dark side, or the yellow side if you will. Normally, you don't get that opportunity. The narrative of a movie usually demands that you are that guy from the start.
~By Mark Strong ~
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
It was a good chance for us to play for people who would never have heard us otherwise.
~By Daisy Berkowitz ~
To be happy, to make other people happy, to get into movie production more and probably to give some other people the chances that I had, to carry on enjoying being a mum and never to stop having flowers bought for me. I've still got a long way to go.
~By Sharon Stone ~
Releasing a record is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the promotion of the product, but you have to play the game if you are to have a chance of competing in the market place.
~By John Barrow ~
The Governor's Mansion is a beautiful home, a beautiful building - we're privileged to have a chance to live there. It certainly doesn't feel as comfortable as our home.
~By Matt Blunt ~
Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.
~By Dave Barry ~
Looking back, of course, it was irresponsible, mad, forlorn, idiotic, but if you don't take chances then you'll never have a winning hand, and I've no regrets.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.
~By Donald O'Connor ~
I've been around the music business for a long time now, and I've had a lot of chances to do movies. But I didn't really want to do any until I found stuff that started to hit me in the right place.
~By Tim McGraw ~
And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
~By Beatrice Wood ~
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
John was great to work with, and a lot of fun. I wish I'd had the chance to make more music with him, of course, and to get to know him better.
~By Tony Levin ~
Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
~By Mary Tyler Moore ~
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
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