Quotes About Chance

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.

A "take" is an opportunity to fail ... and we think that we have to get it right all the time.

Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

It's your time to live, don't mess it up.

Everything happens for a reason, except possibly football. (in Thief of Time)

I get cassettes near Academy Award time of every movie that's made that thinks it has some kind of chance for a nomination - that's when I watch my movies

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

The king shall lose no time when the opportunity waited for arrives.

The only time you truly make a mistake is when you commit a "mis-take," that is, you "miss-taking" the opportunity to learn a valuable lesson from your seemingly malfunctional experience.

I think you have to be in the right place at the right time. And understand that and know when it is your time and how you react to it and how you respond to it.

Make a good use of the present.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

It was obvious that their profits were simply cash borrowed from destiny with some random payback time.

An actor's career relies on a lot of luck. Being in the right place at the right time.

The real pleasure was having the chance to enjoy being weightless, and the other was to... spend some time looking out at this beautiful spaceship Earth that we're all lucky to inhabit.

Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to roll the dice) - Matrim Cauthon

As a first-time director in America, I feel I've been very fortunate.

Your number was up the first time I met you.

Every idea has its time.

I'm a working stiff. I just happened to be around at the right time, and nobody else wanted the job.

... if you're someone who knows the worst thing can happen at any time, aren't you also someone who knows the best thing can happen at any time too?

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

Wherefore the race being not to the swift, etc. but time and chance happening to all men, I leave the Judgement of the whole to the Candid, of whose correction I shall never be impatient.

I began to think that my time had come, as the saying is.