Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
~By Laurence J. Peter ~
I think we still have a chance if we continue with our work, if Iraq provides full cooperation, we should still be able to avoid a war.
~By Mohamed ElBaradei ~
My father felt that his world of ideas was too liberal for traditional rabbinical teachings, and he looked for a chance to find a way in life.
~By Immanuel Velikovsky ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
We need to keep this Labour government, it has a good chance of another term.
~By Clare Short ~
Do theater. Because you'll develop a craft that you'll always have. It'll give you a chance to really learn how to act and you won't go into the world with a few measly tricks that will only carry you so far.
~By Mark Ruffalo ~
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.
~By William Jennings Bryan ~
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
~By Alexander Pope ~
No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent.
~By Margaret Thatcher ~
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 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 haven't done a great deal of it but this was a chance to do more and bring it to that part of the business and even more so, but the fact that it was a black superhero was really the catalyst to me.
~By Blair Underwood ~
I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.
~By Deborah Bull ~
I fancy our chances at the European Championships.
~By Frank Lampard ~
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 ~
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 ~
If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
~By Norman Ralph Augustine ~
I'd like to think that the actions we take today will allow others in the future to discover the wonders of landscapes we helped protect but never had the chance to enjoy ourselves.
~By Annie Leibovitz ~
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they've done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
~By Ben Stiller ~
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 ~
The point is, when you have a chance to have a big adventure, especially if, like in your case, it doesn't hurt anyone, it's just plain foolish not to take it.
~By Mink Stole ~
There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.
~By Chuck Jones ~
When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
~By Eberhard Weber ~
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
~By Peter De Vries ~
Chicago will give you a chance. The sporting spirit is the spirit of Chicago.
~By Lincoln Steffens ~
Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
~By Ric Ocasek ~
This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
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 ~
No man was ever wise by chance.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
~By Marie de France ~
Beware of missing chances; otherwise it may be altogether too late some day.
~By Franz Liszt ~
There's a way of playing safe, there's a way of using tricks and there's the way I like to play which is dangerously where you're going to take a chance on making mistakes in order to create something you haven't created before.
~By Dave Brubeck ~
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 ~
Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It'just wonderful.
~By Gene Krupa ~
I jump at any chance to go back into theater.
~By Taye Diggs ~
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 ~
A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
~By Emily Bronte ~
Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.
~By Kent Nerburn ~
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 ~
With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
~By Ken Follett ~
Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
~By Theophile Gautier ~
To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions.
~By Kim Campbell ~
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 ~
I think my speeches are hilarious. I think I'm a natural comedian, but I like denying people the chance to laugh. I want to deny you the relief of the punchline.
~By Lydia Lunch ~
We got a chance to go and play in some places that the usual European tour by an American band didn't go to.
~By Jack Irons ~
So, whenever Scooter was the Pilot, he never had a chance to fly the orbiter. So, the joke is: I'm going to have a chance to fly it first and hand it over to him.
~By Duane G. Carey ~
We should recognize that on the day that we are born, our glass is half full. In America your chance to fill your glass the rest of the way up is greater than it is anyplace else on this planet.
~By Steve King ~
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 ~
I love roller coasters. I don't get a chance often, but I've gone to Magic Mountain and gone on the rides. I love roller coasters.
~By Anthony Hopkins ~
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 ~
I don't think people were betting on me, but they were giving me a chance. I think I rode a wave there, by being different in appearance than the girls who preceded me.
~By Elisabeth Rohm ~
It's no secret that we were sticking just about every nickel we had on the chance that people would really be interested in something totally new and unique in the field of entertainment.
~By Walt Disney ~
I despise the Lottery. There's less chance of you becoming a millionaire than there is of getting hit on the head by a passing asteroid.
~By Brian May ~
To race Formula three is very high risk and I am not going to take a chance. Thank god I am not doing it!
~By Emerson Fittipaldi ~
I saw clearly how those who saved the state so heroically and courageously in the War of Independence would be capable of bringing a catastrophe upon it if they are given the chance in normal times.
~By Moshe Sharett ~
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 ~
If you are given a chance to be a role model, I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light, and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
~By Tiger Woods ~
There are people who want to make men's lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
~By Friedrich Nietzsche ~
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 ~
Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.
~By Bobby Scott ~
I don't give players a chance to hit me.
~By Eric Dickerson ~
But, in the name of the experimental method and out of our poor knowledge, are we really entitled to claim that everything happens by chance, to the exclusion of all other possibilities?
~By Albert Claude ~
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 must, from here on in, all go down the same path... There may not be another chance.
~By Maurice Strong ~
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 ~
I think we should look forward to death more than we do. Of course everybody hates to go to bed or miss anything, but dying is really the only chance we'll get to rest.
~By Florynce R. Kennedy ~
Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience.
~By Jonas Salk ~
This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.
~By Bruce Babbitt ~
Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.
~By Robert C. Solomon ~
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
I don't look like Halle Berry. But chances are, she's going to end up looking like me.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
Give peace a chance.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
Let's not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
~By John Thune ~
We wanted to offer something new to our audience. I hate it when bands stop taking chances.
~By Kirk Hammett ~
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 ~
Give luck a chance to happen.
~By Tom Kite ~
Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.
~By Edward Burnett Tylor ~
Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved.
~By William Jennings Bryant ~
If the arts are held up solely as a means of social insight, fantasy is denied the chance to be commonplace and reality the chance to be exotic.
~By Richard Eyre ~
Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.
~By Ambrose Bierce ~
I've been doing Pride and Prejudice all summer, so suddenly the chance to be holed up with a bunch of marines is quite attractive, and probably a necessary dose of male energy.
~By Rosamund Pike ~
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 ~
Anyone who has to fight, even with the most modern weapons, against an enemy in complete command of the air, fights like a savage against modern European troops, under the same handicaps and with the same chances of success.
~By Erwin Rommel ~
Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.
~By Robert Altman ~
If somebody has a chance to put my food in their mouth, that tells the story.
~By Emeril Lagasse ~
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
~By Luis Bunuel ~
My best chance is that, in a happy moment, I hit upon St Francis as the subject for a series of plays. Others might have written them better: but, as I have written them, the advantage will probably remain mine.
~By Laurence Housman ~
I also really liked playing Mr. Tumnus in 'Narnia'. I got to play my favorite character in children's literature, which I loved. You don't get the chance to do that in other jobs.
~By James McAvoy ~
Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.
~By Franco Harris ~
I met my wife through playing golf. She is French and couldn't speak English and I couldn't speak French, so there was little chance of us getting involved in any boring conversations - that's why we got married really quickly.
~By Sean Connery ~
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
~By Mignon McLaughlin ~
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 ~
When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth.
~By Bernie Mac ~
So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.
~By Mindy Cohn ~
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
~By Albert Camus ~
I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
~By Wanda Sykes ~
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 ~
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