Quotes About Chance

Every action has a reaction. We've got one planet and one chance.

Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.

We didn't have a garage to rehearse in. We had to aggravate the folks in the house. But I got a chance to play in a beer joint, and that's how it started.

A rebellion against a tyrant is only immoral when it hasn't got a chance.

Free will is to mind what chance is to matter.

But our wounds are part of who we are...and there is nothing left to chance....And pain's the pen that writes the songs....That call us forth to dance

This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change.

There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

In the theatre you can change things ever so slightly; it's an organic thing. Whereas in film you only have that chance on the day, and you have no control over it at all.

Make chance essential.

God casts the die, not the dice.

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve.

All the world is full of inscape and chance left free to act falls into an order as well as purpose.

I myself find it hard to accept the notion of self-creation from nothing, even given unrestricted chance.

All newspaper writers have heard that the stuff they compose today has an excellent chance of being used to wrap tomorrow's mackerel.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

Democracy, it appears, is a bit chancy. But its chances also depend on what we do ourselves

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

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.

Basic principles: no matter what, no matter when, no matter who... any man has a chance to sweep any woman off her feet. He just needs the right broom.

You think we stand a chance? (Delphine) Like an icicle on the equator. (Phobos)

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.