Quotes About Chance

When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.

Without the light, no chance; without the dark, no dance.

But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.

Chance has something to say, even how to write a good letter.

Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.

I feel it's the best thing that could have happened for me, leaving the Braves so I could go to another team that would give me more of a chance to play like with the Marlins.

All our qualities, whether good or bad, are unstable and ambiguous, and almost all are at the mery of chance.

Obviously there are going to be a lot of skeptics. I only hope I can prove them wrong and give the idea of model-slash-anything a genuine chance.

If I came across a role that is completely mainstream and commercial, but it's the right one, I'd jump at the chance.

Any chance beats no chance.

I never stood a chance. He stole your heart first.

Someone described Providence as the baptismal name of chance; no doubt some pious person will retort that chance is the nickname of Providence.

We live by choice, not by chance.

Math can explain the reason there's one out of four chance that I'd have blue eyes. But it doesn't explain why me.

I am proud to stand with hardworking families all over Toledo, Ohio and America who should have the same chance that I did to share in the American dream, which should be big enough for everybody.

It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.

There is general agreement among researchers that nearly all stock pickers, whether they know it or not-and few of them do-are playing a game of chance.

Thare is no chance of hurrying bussiness here like in the legeslature of a State thare is such a desposition here to Show Eloquence that this will be a long Session and do no good.

Many have told me through the years: 'I think I'll take my chances without Jesus.' And I always come back and say, 'So what chance is that?'

What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

When you find the one, my lad, grab her up in your arms and never let her go. You may never get another chance.

I haven't had a chance to talk, but I'm confident we'll get a bill that I can live with if we don't.

One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.

Random chance is not sufficient to explain random chance. ~Jubal Harshaw