We all have a responsibility, and since I've been so wonderfully blessed, I really want to share and to make life at least a little better. So every chance I get to share the gospel or uplift people, I will take full advantage of that opportunity.
~By Gladys Knight ~
I parody myself every chance I get. I try to make fun of myself and let people know that I'm a human being, and these things that have happened to me are real. I'm not just some cartoon who exists and suddenly doesn't exist.
~By Gary Coleman ~
I was notified on July 17 to be ready to start August 7 for an October air date. When we reached the screen we did not have a single segment ready. It was done so fast the writers never got a chance to know what it was all about.
~By Jeffrey Hunter ~
The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind.
~By Vladimir Nabokov ~
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 ~
What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.
~By Leonard Peltier ~
Necessity is the mother of taking chances.
~By Mark Twain ~
We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
~By Patrick Stewart ~
Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.
~By Arthur Ransome ~
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 ~
I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.
~By Toby Keith ~
The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.
~By Alexis de Tocqueville ~
I've always made a total effort, even when the odds seemed entirely against me. I never quit trying; I never felt that I didn't have a chance to win.
~By Arnold Palmer ~
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.
~By Pauline Kael ~
I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone - the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
~By George Gallup ~
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 ~
It is very important that when you put something on the grill, you leave it in place to cook. If you move it around too quickly, chances are it is going to stick.
~By Bobby Flay ~
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 ~
Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.
~By Trevor Brooking ~
They did offer me a chance of being a V in the crowd, but it's not my scene. I think they just thought it would be fun for me to do that, but I don't know. I heard that Stan Lee appears in every movie of his.
~By David Lloyd ~
Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
~By Calvin Coolidge ~
Golf is a matter of confidence. If you think you cannot do it, there is no chance you will.
~By Henry Cotton ~
Charlton are a team who play well on the ball, but they found it hard to break us down, they didn't really have an out and out chance in front of our goal.
~By Robert Laurent ~
Mars is really different, into art. Lydia Lunch is more energy. James Chance is more commercial in a different way, in funk and jazz. They were all doing original things, trying to create their own sound and music. I think they're all great.
~By Ikue Mori ~
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 ~
After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.
~By Johnny Rivers ~
I have as much input to the blues; I just never got the chance, the opportunity or maybe the respect.
~By Luther Allison ~
We stand our best chance of leaving a legacy to those who want to learn, our children, by standing firm. In matters of style, hey, swing with the stream. But in matters of principle, you need to stand like a rock.
~By Kevin Costner ~
Everybody deserves a second chance in this world. That's basically all I ask.
~By Shannen Doherty ~
I took a lot of time to open myself up to taking chances musically.
~By Gavin DeGraw ~
When my job was attempting to predict future economic developments for the Shell oil company, I was frequently reminded of an Arabic saying: 'Those who claim to foresee the future are lying, even if by chance they are later proved right.'
~By Vince Cable ~
My job is to give my team a chance to win.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
~By Bart Starr ~
I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
~By Dan Glickman ~
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.
~By Bernard Cornwell ~
Sorry Day falls on the eve of Reconciliation Week, giving us the chance to ask whether we are making progress in the wider challenge of reconciling Indigenous and other Australians.
~By Malcolm Fraser ~
The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.
~By Fran Lebowitz ~
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 ~
Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
~By Lafcadio Hearn ~
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
~By Dwight D. Eisenhower ~
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
~By Nancy Astor ~
It's fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you're not safe, when you're not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.
~By Danny DeVito ~
Increasingly, staying in the middle class - let alone aspiring to become middle class - is becoming a game of chance.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
The vice president had a bargaining asset, however, that no ordinary person has: He was next in line to the presidency. I saw no chance that he would resign first, then take his chances on trial, conviction, and jail.
~By Elliot Richardson ~
He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.
~By Francois de La Rochefoucauld ~
The whole force of the respectable circles to which I belonged, that respectable circle which knew as I did not the value of security won, the slender chance of replacing it if lost or abandoned, was against me.
~By Ida Tarbell ~
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 ~
Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
~By Samuel E. Morison ~
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 ~
It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.
~By Ruth Bader Ginsburg ~
From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice.
~By Bill Mumy ~
I was on the sideline with a knee injury and when I came back, I wanted to play at the best level I could. And that's the case for a lot of players, they want the chance to play against the best competition.
~By Claudio Reyna ~
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 ~
There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.
~By Petra Nemcova ~
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
~By Henry Miller ~
We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy.
~By Ezra Stiles ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.
~By Christopher Walken ~
I've spent my career trying to help people without connections understand what's going on so that they have a chance of getting a fair shake from the connected and the powerful.
~By Allan Sloan ~
The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
~By Betty Buckley ~
When we are on tour we also take chances.
~By Jan Garbarek ~
I cry every chance I get.
~By Richard Gere ~
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 like when people take chances.
~By Joshua Homme ~
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
~By H. G. Wells ~
So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused.
~By Anna Louise Strong ~
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
~By Paul Harvey ~
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 ~
You're always frustrated, you don't have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute. There never is a chance with the Stones.
~By Bill Wyman ~
There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do.
~By Charlize Theron ~
We have a chance to wind down and expedite the removal of 96 percent of the world's nuclear weapons. What an achievement it would be, if at the end of the next administration, we could say that the nuclear arsenals of both Russia and the United States had been reduced to the barest minimums.
~By Diane Feinstein ~
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 ~
Never talk for half a minute without pausing and giving others a chance to join in.
~By Sydney Smith ~
You destroy the initiative of the working people if they don't feel they have a fighting chance to be a part of the American Dream.
~By James Sinegal ~
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
~By Bill Gates ~
Don't talk to me about aesthetics or tradition. Talk to me about what sells and what's good right now. And what the American people like is to think the underdog still has a chance.
~By George Steinbrenner ~
From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn't be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.
~By Zhang Ziyi ~
I grew up not far from where Motown was founded, maybe 300 miles from Detroit and I've always liked - I used to like the way they made records. I still do, I just haven't had a chance to hear as much. They used to entertain me.
~By Rick Danko ~
I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.
~By Rodrigo Rato ~
The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
~By Roger Babson ~
I would love to meet Kelly Clarkson and if I get the chance to I would tell her thank you so much for the inspiration.
~By Thia Megia ~
Chance happens to all, but to turn chance to account is the gift of few.
~By Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton ~
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
~By Arthur Schopenhauer ~
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
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 ~
I've had a chance to fly a lot of different airplanes, but it was nothing like the shuttle ride.
~By Chris Hadfield ~
For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.
~By Hugo Pratt ~
I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
~By Rafael Palmeiro ~
I've worked with many directors, good ones and bad ones. So if I have a chance to work the good ones, I better put myself in their hands, and trust them, because that's my big opportunity to be different, and to be better than usual.
~By Thomas Kretschmann ~
What does my performance have to do with Russell Crowe's? Nothing. If I play Gladiator and we all play Gladiator with Ridley Scott in the same amount of time, maybe we have a chance to see who did it best.
~By Javier Bardem ~
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 ~
You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level.
~By Amanda Marshall ~
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
~By Ed Markey ~
A lot of very, very big stars were going down and not being seen or heard from again. Kirk took a huge chance in putting a blacklisted writer's name on the screen and somehow or other, he survived it, like he survives everything.
~By Lee Grant ~
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