Quotes About Chance

A crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

I got a call to come in and meet Fox, and the rest is history.

Without history we are the prisoners of the accident of where and when we were born.

It sometimes seems to me that the whole course of English history was one of accident, confusion, chance and unintended consequences - there's no real pattern.

I've told myself I have a chance to make history, and that's my focus.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

If you never heard opportunity knock, maybe you're never at home.

Our lives can change with every breath we take.

Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won.

You have the honor and privilege of being in position to do something amazingly special. If you have the chance, you must do it.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

Only by chancing the ridiculous, can I hope for the sublime.

Hope is a risk that must be run.

Every day that we wake up is a good day. Every breath that we take is filled with hope for a better day. Every word that we speak is a chance to change what is bad into something good.

If I had to lay bets, my bet would be that everything is going to go to hell, but, you know, what else have we got except hope?

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

Take a shot of vodka and hope for the best.

Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

I'm thankful to get the opportunity to direct. I hope I don't mess it up.

Hope bases vast premises on foolish accidents, and reads a word where in fact only a scribble exists.