With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
~By Johnny Vegas ~
A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
~By Henri Poincare ~
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 ~
When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.
~By Ginny B. Waite ~
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 ~
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 ~
Today is you own. Tomorrow perchance may never come.
~By Swami Sivananda ~
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
~By Scott McCloud ~
I have seen that the American Dream is a reality - and I would love to feel the British Dream is also a reality. To enable that, we have to bring back some common sense and encourage family values, a proper sense of justice and make people believe they have a decent chance to build a business or career for themselves. I see this moment as a fantastic opportunity to restore this, because I believe Britain Has Talent.
~By Simon Cowell ~
Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?
~By Thomas Clarkson ~
First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
~By Barry Levinson ~
Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves.
~By Robert A. Dahl ~
I also got a chance to go to the American Museum in New York, which helped my interest.
~By Robert T. Bakker ~
When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.
~By Mark Twain ~
Portraying emotionally ill characters gives me the chance to really act.
~By Leonardo DiCaprio ~
I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
~By Sandra Oh ~
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
~By Louis Pasteur ~
St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
~By Rowan D. Williams ~
To God be humble, to thy friend be kind, and with thy neighbors gladly lend and borrow; His chance tonight, it maybe thine tomorrow.
~By William Dunbar ~
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 ~
My main concern is when it's 2-0, I've got to keep it at 2-0. It gives us a little more of a chance. To give up four more runs, that isn't going to get it done. I don't care who you're facing or who you're playing, it's not going to get it done.
~By Roger Clemens ~
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 ~
Unfortunately, we don't get a second chance. We've already played them twice.
~By Trevor Brooking ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Chance is a name for our ignorance.
~By Leslie Stephen ~
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 ~
Newt correctly assumes that the American public is beginning to look down the road and at least distinguish the landmarks on either side and know where it wants go. We have a chance to lead it there.
~By Pete du Pont ~
If you go in and audition for roles rather than just be offered them, then you kind of get a chance to kind of discover that you can do something that you didn't think you could do.
~By Peter Sarsgaard ~
Alabama farmers want a chance to complete fairly in Japan, but they can't if the Japanese won't let us in.
~By Mike Rogers ~
You never know what can happen. I feel like I have a pretty good chance, but you never know.
~By Carly Patterson ~
Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.
~By John Havlicek ~
Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.
~By Herbert Croly ~
There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.
~By John Elway ~
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 ~
Give peace a chance.
~By Yitzhak Rabin ~
You never know what a fool you can be till life gives you the chance.
~By Eden Phillpotts ~
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 ~
No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
~By Christopher Walken ~
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.
~By Martin Puryear ~
If a man will make a purchase of a chance he must abide by the consequences.
~By Richard Richards ~
This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.
~By Cathy Freeman ~
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 ~
We all know that China is industrializing at a growth rate of 8 to 10 percent per year. China is on track to pass the U.S. as the largest economy in the world in 20 to 25 years, and China is determined to give its people a chance at this high standard of living that we enjoy.
~By John Olver ~
If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.
~By Bart Starr ~
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
~By Charles Kettering ~
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
~By Maurice Ravel ~
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 ~
If all Europe lies flat while the Russian mob tramps over it, we will then be faced with a war under difficult circumstances, and with a very good chance of losing it.
~By James Forrestal ~
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 ~
Random chance plays a huge part in everybody's life.
~By Gary Gygax ~
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 ~
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
~By Ovid ~
No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.
~By Marek Belka ~
Anyone who thus looks up has some chance of becoming worthy to be looked up to in turn.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
And then my chance really happened in 1996 when we added the second flight of the tether satellite.
~By Umberto Guidoni ~
So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.
~By Mindy Cohn ~
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 ~
A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.
~By Benjamin Disraeli ~
I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
~By Billie Holiday ~
There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.
~By Thomas Pynchon ~
Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
~By Dinah Shore ~
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 ~
What is different is I am giving the kids a chance to train every day. Not only once a day, but sometimes when they do not have school, we will try to do something in the morning too.
~By Thomas Dooley ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
~By Garry Kasparov ~
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 ~
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
~By King Edward VIII ~
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
~By Orlando A. Battista ~
I thought theater people wouldn't see me if I hadn't trained. I didn't want to just be the Brideshead guy, to spend the rest of my life wearing waistcoats. I got the chance to try everything. Not just Romeos, but pimps and grandfathers and even one role as a woman in a Naomi Wallace play called Slaughter City.
~By Tom Hiddleston ~
If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
~By Isaac Bashevis Singer ~
I have as much chance of becoming Prime Minister as of being decapitated by a frisbee or of finding Elvis.
~By Boris Johnson ~
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 ~
You never know who's going to become your friend. Friends are always chance meetings.
~By Steve Guttenberg ~
It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance.
~By Barney Oliver ~
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 ~
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 ~
That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.
~By Jean Alesi ~
The Chancellor also in effect asks us to bargain away whatever obligation or interest we have as regards the neutrality of Belgium. We could not entertain that bargain either.
~By Edward Grey ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
News conferences are the only chance the American public has to see Ronald Reagan use his mind.
~By Sam Donaldson ~
It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
~By George Michael ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.
~By Will Cuppy ~
I would recommend anybody who gets a chance to see short track skating, make it a point to go out there when Apolo is skating because you won't see anybody better.
~By Eric Heiden ~
Ain't no chance if you don't take it.
~By Guy Clark ~
There's nothing as exciting as a comeback - seeing someone with dreams, watching them fail, and then getting a second chance.
~By Rachel Griffiths ~
With each game I play, each season I play, everyone would agree with me, I'm running out of chances.
~By Brett Favre ~
In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.
~By Florence Kelley ~
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 ~
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 ~
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
~By David Elkind ~
Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
~By Ralph Marston ~
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