The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.
~By Mary McLeod Bethune ~
The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
~By Jack Nicklaus ~
Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
~By Euripides ~
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 Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.
~By James W. Black ~
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
~By Abigail Adams ~
The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.
~By Martina Hingis ~
That's Anil's path. She grows up in Sri Lanka, goes and gets educated abroad, and through fate or chance gets brought back by the Human Rights Commission to investigate war crimes.
~By Michael Ondaatje ~
Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.
~By John Polkinghorne ~
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 ~
Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.
~By Jessamyn West ~
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
~By Simone Weil ~
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 ~
Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.
~By Ed Pastor ~
Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
~By Honore de Balzac ~
Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.
~By Frank Moore Colby ~
And, of course, millions of us cross the border to work in US homes and gardens and factories and carpentry shops and restaurants, and if you go to a restaurant pretty much anywhere in the United States, the chances are that the dishes will be washed by a Mexican.
~By Alma Guillermoprieto ~
Until now, I've not done a project where the produce, rapper and singer has never worked together like this before, and I had a chance to try a variety of styles.
~By Namie Amuro ~
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 ~
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
~By Robert H. Schuller ~
This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do do standup comedy because a lot of people don't know that's where I started.
~By Nick Cannon ~
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 ~
Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.
~By Henry Van Dyke ~
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
~By Garth Ennis ~
When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do.
~By Adrienne Barbeau ~
I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
~By Shelley Fabares ~
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 ~
Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
~By Arthur Erickson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
My job is to give my team a chance to win.
~By Nolan Ryan ~
I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
~By Namie Amuro ~
To be successful, one must take chances.
~By Willie Stargell ~
Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come - and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
~By Condoleezza Rice ~
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
~By Bob Greene ~
In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
If you have a dream, give it a chance to happen.
~By Richard M. DeVos ~
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 ~
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
~By John Boehner ~
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there'd be something I'd miss that was funny in the future. If there's a chance I'm going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.
~By Dave Navarro ~
Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.
~By Alan Ladd ~
I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don't really care that much about women's clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they'll like her clothes.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
No man was ever wise by chance.
~By Lucius Annaeus Seneca ~
I quit because I didn't feel like the Detroit Lions had a chance to win. It just killed my enjoyment of the game.
~By Barry Sanders ~
National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.
~By Lois Capps ~
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 ~
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
~By Marcus Garvey ~
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
~By Curt Weldon ~
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 ~
Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance to just chill out until I come here, in my creative space.
~By Bootsy Collins ~
We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
~By Larry Niven ~
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
~By Carl Levin ~
You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
~By Terence ~
I was very, very shocked about Cooperstown. I thought my chances were fairly good, but I tried to stay low key about it, not too high and not too low. That was the way I played, too.
~By Al Kaline ~
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 ~
I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances.
~By Tiffeny Milbrett ~
Right afterwards there was a whole, whole lot of press to do, so the week after, all day, every day, was press so I didn't really get a chance to celebrate.
~By Carrie Underwood ~
I say if you're going to take a chance on something, you just go full balls to the wall.
~By Toby Keith ~
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 ~
That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
~By Angela Ruggiero ~
I think the University of Texas has the chance to become the finest public university in the country.
~By Tom Hicks ~
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
~By Salma Hayek ~
And I thought, my God, there's an off chance that they will say something that's really worth preserving and there is one way to do that and I knew what it was because I come from television.
~By James Lipton ~
Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
~By Walter Anderson ~
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 ~
It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.
~By Todd Akin ~
There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.
~By John Agyekum Kufuor ~
You can't be pregnant in leotards, and this is the last chance for us to get our bodies into the shape of concert dancers and capture it with the magic of film.
~By Patrick Swayze ~
I finally got a chance to talk to my daughter from my previous marriage. I just got married May 3 to my beautiful wife, but we don't see each other much.
~By Peter Criss ~
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 ~
Children born today have a fifty-fifty chance of living to 100.
~By William Greider ~
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 ~
Always go to the bathroom when you have a chance.
~By King George V ~
Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
~By Bill Gates ~
In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.
~By Ansel Adams ~
Growth is never by mere chance; it is the result of forces working together.
~By James Cash Penney ~
If you look at the fact that the best chance we have for a good economy is the private sector. The government cannot create jobs. If the government could create jobs, then Communism would have worked. But didn't work. So what we have to do is allow the private sector and the entrepreneurial spirit to lead us back to a job-filled recovery.
~By Tim Scott ~
Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
~By Bobby Knight ~
Whatever character you play, it gives you the chance to expose another side of yourself that maybe you've never felt comfortable with, or never knew about.
~By Laura Dern ~
If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
~By Glenn Frey ~
I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it.
~By Bernadette Peters ~
No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune.
~By Plutarch ~
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
~By Mae West ~
I suppose that if I could have quit, I would have, because in those days I never wanted to be an actress, the acting was something to do while I waited for a chance to study writing and directing. But I guess I was just meant to be an actress. Because, here I am.
~By Judy Holliday ~
I want to do it for myself. It's my goal and dream. All I can ask for is to get the chance and go out there and do the best I can, be as ready as I can.
~By Carly Patterson ~
It's never been important to be a huge star or to have some breakout role. If you're the lead, you get a lot more screen time and you get a lot more chances to develop that character more thoroughly than you would if you do it in a little supporting part.
~By Famke Janssen ~
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 ~
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
~By Poppy Z. Brite ~
I'll never be a good writer, and no chance of being a good actor.
~By Matthew Vaughn ~
Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
~By Patricia Ireland ~
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
~By Laura Schlessinger ~
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 ~
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
~By Gore Vidal ~
If I thought I had hurt my chances of winning another major just because I was chasing money around, I'd wind up kicking myself.
~By Mike Weir ~
I knew I'd just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that's not your background and to pull it off and to think that we've done something that's really special.
~By Gerard Butler ~
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
~By Michael Korda ~
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