Quotes About Chance

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.

It's sad, the lottery. Good projects get funded by it, but there's an air of desperation about it.

Certain projects find you at the right time.

I consider projects very deeply, but there's always a point in your life where there's a bit of randomity.

I love playing baseball, and I always promised myself, if I had the chance, that I would work as hard as I could to be the best player I could possibly be.

Still, we view that old material very much like we view the new material so if this gives us a chance to go out and promote it then, yes we will go out and do that.

I think we have seen evidence that being brave enough to go abroad can lead to a proper opportunity.

I'm changing lineups obviously to give everybody their best opportunity to show what they can do. Just giving everybody their fair chance to assess that properly.

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?

I wish I had more opportunities to play for Canada when I was younger, but pros just never had the chance in those days. It was just set up that way.

Rodney Linares really stuck his neck out in Greenville to play me, because they had their prospects, guys who they had invested money in.

We know that in our free market economy some will prosper more than others. What we don't accept is the idea that some folks won't even get a chance.

When domestic violence was often a dark secret, Dad wrote the Violence Against Women Act, which gave countless women support, protection and a new chance at life.

You have to give people the opportunity to prove themselves.

You can be the best actor in the world, but if you don't have that one lucky moment, it kind of doesn't matter. There are a lot of amazing actors who will never get the chance to prove themselves because they won't have that one lucky moment.

All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.

Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

A free man? - There is no such thing! All men are slaves; some, slaves to money; some, of chance; others are forced, either by mass opinion, or threatening law, to act against their nature.

We cannot force Fortune against her will.

Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances.

Good luck to you and bad luck to your theories.

My dear boy, there's your big mistake. This has nothing to do with will-power; that's a crazy, useless word, anyway; you lack judgement--the judgement to decide at once when you know your imagination will play you false, given half a chance.