There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.
~By John Elway ~
Songs like the Buck Owens tune, for example, are very simple and straightforward, and recording it really gave me a chance to get into and get a sense of Buck's personality, a feel for that whole Bakersfield sound.
~By Juice Newton ~
I want kids to have a chance to dream of becoming something like I did in my life, and when you're living in a home that's dysfunctional and unhealthy that way, you don't dream like that.
~By Picabo Street ~
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
~By Harrison Ford ~
The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.
~By Jose Mourinho ~
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~By John Stuart Mill ~
All my pictures are built around the idea of getting in trouble and so giving me the chance to be desperately serious in my attempt to appear as a normal little gentleman.
~By Charlie Chaplin ~
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 ~
But God, who is the beginning of all things, is not to be regarded as a composite being, lest perchance there should be found to exist elements prior to the beginning itself, out of which everything is composed, whatever that be which is called composite.
~By Origen ~
Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
~By Peter Farrelly ~
The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
~By Harvey Fierstein ~
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
~By Bruce Springsteen ~
The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.
~By John Ensign ~
The Round-Up is a wonderful community celebration, and I greatly enjoy the chance to visit with residents and see so many families enjoying the festivities offered throughout the week.
~By Greg Walden ~
I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.
~By Henry Miller ~
So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.
~By Mindy Cohn ~
We had to be very careful on our best behaviour when we went to these other countries. And then I made a living, I had a chance to support my wife and my kids. It was a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful program from that point of view.
~By Gavin MacLeod ~
Also, when I started racing he knew a lot of people and it was more easy for me to find the first bike, so I have a good chance for sure.
~By Valentino Rossi ~
Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that.
~By Geoff Downes ~
Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
I'll be honest with you: not a chance in this world. But you know, stranger things have happened.
~By Stacy Keach ~
Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.
~By Theodore Roosevelt ~
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
~By Franz Liszt ~
One lapse of judgment can cost and talent isn't everything. A huge slice of good fortune in needed to make it to the top, and without that element of luck, you've no chance.
~By John Barrow ~
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 ~
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
~By Anatole France ~
They do think it is a big summer movie and that's why they want to give it a great chance, but they don't want to go up against Spider-Man 2 or some of the other big movies, the $100 million films that are coming up.
~By David R. Ellis ~
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
~By Barry Levinson ~
I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
~By Dana Fox ~
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.
~By Joanna Trollope ~
So, you pick this stuff here and this stuff there and then you see things in certain ways and you start visualizing and thank God I get the chance to do this. It's really the greatest thing in the whole wide world.
~By Danny DeVito ~
Better that you should take the chance of trying something that is close to your heart, you think is what you want to write, and if they do not publish it, put it in your drawer. But maybe another day will come and you will find a place to put that.
~By Gay Talese ~
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 ~
I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
~By Namie Amuro ~
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 trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.
~By Fred Barnes ~
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.
~By Dick Bruna ~
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
~By Mae West ~
I don't care if we're out of it or not, if I've got a chance to pitch, I want to.
~By Greg Maddux ~
Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you're probably going to invest in somebody who's going to deceive you. I've been conned a couple of times, but now I'm a little more savvy.
~By Maggie Gyllenhaal ~
In prison, you get the chance to see who really loves you.
~By Suge Knight ~
Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
~By Jacques Chirac ~
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.
~By Constance Baker Motley ~
I think either Robert Blake wither pulled the trigger or hired someone to do it, but it will be a tough case to prove. I think there's a very good chance he may take the stand, and that's what I'm waiting for.
~By Catherine Crier ~
It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.
~By Christopher Bond ~
The more facts you tell, the more you sell. An advertisement's chance for success invariably increases as the number of pertinent merchandise facts included in the advertisement increases.
~By Charles Edwards ~
I never really had a chance to know the players individually... I thought when they were on the floor, they worked hard. But I never really got to know them.
~By Lenny Wilkens ~
I've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
~By Brian Tracy ~
Today the House has a chance to give 25 million married couples the best Valentine's Day gift possible, elimination from the most unfair of taxes, the marriage tax penalty.
~By Jerry Weller ~
I think it has other roots, has to do, in part, with a general anxiety in contemporary life... nuclear bombs, inequality of possibility and chance, inequality of goods allotted to us, a kind of general racist, unjust attitude that is pervasive.
~By Leonard Baskin ~
We're going to have more kids playing, and we're going to have a better chance of finding those players Minor sports in a community is for fun and recreation. For everyone.
~By Bobby Orr ~
Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!
~By Christine Lahti ~
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
~By Bono ~
One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
~By Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ~
We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.
~By Henry Kravis ~
Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
~By William Greider ~
I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.
~By Brad Paisley ~
The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
~By Patrick Warburton ~
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster.
~By A. R. Ammons ~
I haven't really had that many opportunities to play "lead" so I guess I jumped at the chance. I have also never done any "sci-fi" projects and thought it might be fun.
~By Julie Bowen ~
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
~By Albert Camus ~
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
~By William Cowper ~
I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
~By Nancy Sinatra ~
Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.
~By Tacitus ~
These syllables, about 2,300 in number, were mixed together and then drawn out by chance and used to construct series of different lengths, several of which each time formed the material for a test.
~By Hermann Ebbinghaus ~
A chance, as a coach, to take a team to the World Cup finals is probably as high up the tree as it gets, certainly with one-day cricket.
~By Andy Pick ~
We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
~By Barbara Boxer ~
We felt like when we went into last year we had a pretty good chance to win the championship from the previous year with the fall we put together. We've got the same everything now, so I think we can come back and be as strong this year.
~By Sterling Marlin ~
If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
~By Red Skelton ~
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 ~
If you want to treat China as an enemy, you have a much better chance of making them an enemy than if you treat them as a potential friend.
~By Jim Sasser ~
If people take an interest in you and they think there's half a chance, they might hang on. It's dreadful.
~By Daniel Day Lewis ~
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
~By Robert Collier ~
If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.
~By Clarence Day ~
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
An American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting; and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion, he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.
~By Trevor Brooking ~
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 ~
Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute.
~By Keith Jarrett ~
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 ~
I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.
~By Michael Connelly ~
The West German population would protest passionately if it knew what secret meetings between the federal chancellor, McCoy, and foreign and Nazi generals are planning.
~By Walter Ulbricht ~
America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.
~By George W. Bush ~
For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.
~By Marya Mannes ~
Just to be around that, to feel a part of it and be able to integrate the experience while I was with the Messengers, of going and playing gigs with other drummers, gave me the chance to realize that it was not just me that was making it happen.
~By Benny Green ~
The only thing that I could get with chance, and I never was able to use it, was that I would end up with something quite geometric or the spirit that I was interested in, indulging in, was gone.
~By Robert Rauschenberg ~
No man was ever wise by chance.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I spent my first three weeks there on a wing with 21 murderers. I met some very evil people there but also some men who'd had no upbringing, no chance in life.
~By Jeffrey Archer ~
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 ~
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
~By Max Eastman ~
I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
~By Lee Ann Womack ~
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 ~
Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires trust on all sides. We don't know where it will lead. But if we just stand still, we will have no chance of escaping the violence.
~By Daniel Barenboim ~
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
As years go by, chances of winning here are getting slimmer. That's just a matter of fact. It does get tougher, but it's possible, there's a tiny little chance.
~By Stefan Edberg ~
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
~By Kirk Hammett ~
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