Quotes About Chance

Is there a necessary succession in style, or are these things pure chance?

We do not what we ought; What we ought not, we do; And lean upon the thought That chance will bring us through; But our own acts, for good or ill, are mightier powers.

Almost all the people who've had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn't but have met them.

I don't think there's any money to be made doing something that's that contemporary without having a spin on it. If there's a London riots film with zombies, that'd have more chance.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.

I'm from Hope, Arkansas, you may have heard of it. All I'm asking is, give us one more chance.

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'

Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

I feel lucky to be doing TV right now because I get another chance every day.

Surely few if any readers have come across the sentence they are now reading, and someone who had by chance heard or seen it could not possibly remember such a fact.

Well the planet I've got a chance to visit is Earth, and Earth's principal features are chaos and war. I think I'd be a fool to spend years here and never have a look.

When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew.

He would conclude that nothing was real except chance.

Finally there was one open-minded surgeon in the great Pennsylvania General Hospital. He said, 'Let us give this young fellow a chance.' So they let him operate.

Having not had a chance to review the tape and obviously not been in the tunnel, I will take the Wenger amendment on this one for now.

Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance. Accident. And our lives, our world, hanging on it.

Any memory for the most part depending on chance.

I'm excited about the opportunity to go back out there with my teammates and get another chance at this thing [a Super Bowl].

Does humanity have a chance to survive lastingly and successfully on planet Earth, and if so, how?

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

Even sometimes our preconceptions of what we think we need is different to actually what we do need, so we've got to be more open and give guys more of a chance.

Be the master of your fate, be the captain of your soul, but do not hesitate, should the chance befall you, to be the slave of your heart.

If you can start with effort then you have a chance.