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Quotes About Chances

investors and increase the chances of achieving your financial and life goals. Over the years, I have talked
~ Larry Swedroe
I'll take my chances. It has you." And when a great man says something smart like that a smart woman just shuts up.
~ Laura Castoro
Sylvain flung out his hands. "You think my father never screwed up with me? You think I never screwed up with him? You don't get only one chance, for God's sake. You get five million chances, second after second every day. You don't have to get every single one of them perfect. Merde. It's not chocolate.
~ Laura Florand
Le conditionnel passé, le temps des opportunités manquées.
~ Celeste Ng
The hypothetical past perfect, the tense of missed chances.
~ Celeste Ng
Later she would wonder if this had made her miss her chance, or if she had ever had a chance at all.
~ Celeste Ng
A million little chances to change the future.
~ Celeste Ng
Yawning gaps of time when she could have been anywhere, doing anything.
~ Celeste Ng
Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.
~ Charles Dickens
I cannot tell you how dependent and uncertain I feel, and how exposed to hundreds of chances. All my expectations depend on one person. And how indefinite and uncertain they are!
~ Charles Dickens
I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.
~ Mark Twain
Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.
~ Author Unknown
The pursuit of happiness: skipping is one of your best chances of catching it.
~ Terri Guillemets
If Washington was unable to bring prosperity, stability, and meaningful democracy to Latin America, a region that falls squarely within its own sphere of influence and whose population shares many of its values, then what are the chances that it will do so for the world?
~ Greg Grandin
Two keys to offensive play: creating chaos and executing on chances.
~ Greg Wyshynski
les folies que l'on regrette le plus sont celles que l'on pas commises quand on en avait l'occasion
~ Guillaume Musso
Bei allem Respekt, Herr Doktor, Sie langweilen mich mit ihrer Frederica. Ich war dreimal verheiratet und ich kann Ihnen eines versichern: Wenn sie einmal in Ihrem Leben aufrichtig geliebt haben, haben Sie die besten Chancen, erneut zu lieben.
~ Guillaume Musso
A civilization, when the moment has come for crowds to acquire a high hand over it, is at the mercy of too many chances to endure for long. Could anything postpone for a while the hour of its ruin, it would be precisely the extreme instability of the opinions of crowds and their growing indifference and lack of respect for all general beliefs.
~ Gustave Le Bon
Avoid the suave flow of prose that's the trademark of the glib writer. An easy and smooth style is all very well, but it takes no chances and has no seductive wrinkles, no pauses for thought.
~ Guy Davenport
Some paths, some doorways, some people were not to be yours, though the slightest difference in the rippling of time might have made it so.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay
Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Opportunity dances with those who are ready on the dance floor.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.