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Chance Quotes


"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."


"I feel very strongly when there's no chance for me to find a key to a piece."


"If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all."


"Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence."


"I started out Ice skating with Holiday On Ice and just got offered the part of R2 by chance."


"I had to wait a while to get the scans back but it shows nothing in terms of needing surgery which is good. I hurt my AC joint and I just need to strengthen it. There is an outside chance to start training by the end of this week and if not than the start of next week."


"Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape."


"Musicians are always gigging and never have a chance to stop for a minute."


"I remember very clearly at the first budget review having a pretty direct conversation with the head of manufacturing... We began to get huge improvements in productivity and responsiveness. I got a chance to see that firsthand."


"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."


"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance."


"We are given to the cult of personality; when things go badly we look to some messiah to save us. If by chance we think we have found one, it will not be long before we destroy him."


"Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship."


"It's been a struggle for me because I had a chance to be white and refused."


"The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives."


"The Jews deserved to die. I have no regrets. If I had the chance I would do it again."


"The guy comes up to the plate, there's always a chance where he can get a grand slam and everybody forgets about all the times he missed."


"I don't really get a chance to watch much television. I mostly watch BBC Worldwide and repeats of Seinfeld and Everybody Loves Raymond."


"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."


"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."


"There's only so much you can do, but if somebody doesn't give you a chance there is nothing you can do."


"I started out typing and filing and answering the phones for a little nine-person firm. And that nine-person firm gave me my chance to find my own way."


"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."


"The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down."


"Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance."


"Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise."
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