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Quotes About Chance

If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance.
~ Barack Obama
Baseball is a game of averages, but over a short period of time, to have a little luck going is not a bad thing.
~ Bill Buckner
You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...
~ Bill Maher
From time to time, just about every Vanity Fair writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
~ Bryan Burrough
I'd be unbelievably wrong to say there isn't such a thing as the right place, right time-luck.
~ Charlize Theron
I say to first time filmmakers that when they're asked, they should go to America as you're far more likely to get a chance.
~ Danny Boyle
Time and chance reveal all secrets.
~ Delarivier Manley
A time of crisis is not just a time of anxiety and worry. It gives a chance, an opportunity, to choose well or to choose badly.
~ Desmond Tutu
Otherwise, everything got better and better, just one surprise after another. And that's why I wrote the book about a matter of being in the right place at the right time, and just luck.
~ Dick Van Dyke
I wouldn't mind taking a chance at Real Time, I've always thought if I could pick my interviewer, it'd be Charlie Rose, who I think is the best.
~ Dick Van Dyke
This is our last time. November 8 [2016].
~ Donald Trump
First time's a fluke; second time's a coincidence," said Velius. "Third time's tradition," finished Erik.
~ Alethea Kontis
Our time on Earth is so random.
~ Lisa Ling
Programs to demonstrate Darwinian evolution are akin to a pinball machine. The steel ball bounces around differently every time but eventually falls down the little hole behind the flippers.
~ Robert J. Marks II
If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.
~ Seth Godin
Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.
~ Stephen King
But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.
~ Thomas Haden Church
He was in the right place at the right time, but he might have been elsewhere on a different afternoon.
~ Tony Gubba
Take all reasonable advantage of that which the present may offer you. It is the only time which is ours. Yesterday is buried forever, and to-morrow we may never see.
~ Victor Hugo
Being an actor is like winning the lottery. It's not really about your talent, it's right time, right place, right face.
~ Vincent Kartheiser
Heaven know its time; the bullet has its billet
~ Walter Scott
I've been blessed to be at the right place at the right time.
~ Julie Andrews
I just don't think [Payne] was the right time to do it, maybe. It was timing, not so much that it was executed wrong.
~ Julie Benz
Would I like to see the Republican Party be the dominant party for whatever time history gives it the chance to be? You bet.
~ Karl Rove