Quotes About Chance

In 1986, we gave it our best shot but we didn't get the run of the ball.

Good bands won't get famous anymore unless they get really lucky.

It's nice to see bands you could see at a bar finally get a chance.

It's really hard to get a chance in Barbados.

In my barn, everyone gets a fair and equal shot.

I'm very grateful to Barry Jenkins, who took a chance on me.

In baseball, there's always the next day.

When you have good baseball players, you have a chance to win. And when you don't, you don't.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

If you want to be real about it, the fact that any actor books a job is a one-in-a-million shot. I've been so fortunate to have worked on even a few films, so, no, I don't wake up feeling bad.

It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

It's no good being the best actor in the world if nobody sees you because you didn't happen to be there at the right day when a part was being cast.

I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.

An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.

I'm ready to fight anyone, top 10, top 5... I deserve a chance at the belt.

I'm going to repeat that: Without the support of our Sherpas none of us has any chance of climbing the mountain.

Because I live for coincidences. They briefly give to me the illusion or hope that there's a pattern to my life, and if there's a pattern, then maybe im moving toward some kind of destiny where it's all explained.

What did she die of? The same thing that gets everybody in the end: a combination of circumstances

To dream of happiness, wake up, and walk on air Is to know the chance of happiness awake is there.

It was exceedingly improbable that he would ever see the men again, but, as my father said, you never knew. Always worth approaching every man you met as if he might become your best friend in the world.

A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.

he felt that he too was only a baby, with the chance to live without shame, without the need for consolation for a life lived wrong, a chance to be again innocent, simply and impossibly happy.

The soul was not ready to transcend, but was sent back, given a chance to right a previous generation's wrong.