Any Chance Quotes

#1. He knows how it is to leave Ireland, did it himself and never got over it. You live in Los Angeles with sun and palm trees day in day out and you ask God if there's any chance He could give you one soft rainy Limerick day

Frank McCourt

#2. Any chance I had to get in front of people - amateur talent contests at movie houses like the Broadway, the president - I took.

Frankie Avalon

#3. Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it.

William Shakespeare

#4. You know those ducks in that lagoon right near Central Park south?That little lake?By any chance you happen to know where they go?The ducks,When it gets all frozen over?

Greg Holden

#5. Don said, "By any chance did someone come in to confess while I was out, and just maybe you forgot to mention it?" Corrine said no one had.

Chet Williamson

#6. To me, the team is more important than any individual member of the squad, and the players have to realise that and accept that my priority is to pick a side with the best possible chance of winning each match.

Gerard Houllier

#7. I look at each day as a chance to move one notch above yesterday - whether it's in service quality, delivery, speed, or any other aspect of the business.

Daniel Snyder

#8. Any day that starts off in a demon-filled bar in a casino designed to look like Hell isn't likely to turn out well.

Karen Chance

#9. The longer you spend your time worrying about all the negative things in your life, the further you push any chance of retrieving the positive.

Behdad Sami

#10. Any chance I'd get to see you in that bikini?"
Zahara punched him in the arm. "No more talk of me in anything remotely skimpy or I'm gonna drop-kick you, got it?" ~Zahara and Bryan

Annabell Cadiz

#11. How is your health? I feel pretty good, and I'm very anxious to get the season going. I think we have a chance to have a good football team. I don't have any health problems. I don't know how any of the stuff gets started ... My health is very good.

LaVell Edwards

#12. Any chance he's turned a new leaf and taken up sailing for real?"
"About as likely as me doing it."
Hadrian eyed Royce for a heartbeat. "I put him at the top of the list.

Michael J. Sullivan

#13. I hit the red END button on the phone. The word itself mocks me. Have I really destroyed any chance to be with Olivia? Do I really care if I have?
The answers are: I don't know and yes. In that order.

M. Leighton

#14. You mean you let him talk to you like that and you aren't even getting any Man what a rip-off.

Karen Chance

#15. Killing your rival doesn't guarantee happiness. Sometimes it ruins any chance you have of it instead. Memories of dead men hold far more power than the annoyances of living ones.

Jeaniene Frost

#16. Well I haven't seen any free elections in the Arab world. They may be coming someday, except for in Israel. In Israel, Arabs have a chance to participate in free elections. Nowhere else really.

Moshe Arens

#17. No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

Ronald Fisher

#18. Hardly any one is able to see what is before him, just as it is in itself. He comes expecting one thing, he finds another thing, he sees through the veil of his preconception, he criticizes before he has apprehended, he condemns without allowing his instinct the chance of asserting itself.

Arthur Symons

#19. But the irony is that because the band isn't the focus any more, it allows me the chance to enjoy being a member of Def Leppard much more.

Rick Allen

#20. One doesn't know, necessarily, when one meets the trip-action person in one's life. A good teacher, a flirt behind the dry-goods counter, a petty thief wielding a knife. Any one of a thousand chance encounters might be the chance of a lifetime. Or a deathtime.

Gregory Maguire

#21. If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You can start over any moment you choose.

Mary Pickford

#22. And before any Christian readers get all offended - relax. I'm not saying that I'm the new Jesus. I'm just saying there's a very good chance that I might be.

Danny Wallace

#23. One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

Ron Jaworski

#24. The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?

Helen Humphreys

#25. Any of the the 30 ball clubs have a chance at success, and the fans know that. It keeps everything exciting.

Curtis Granderson

#26. I think something innate in us understands that seeking the good of society is usually best for the individual as well. Humankind is noble, when we give it the chance to be. That nobility is something that exists independent of any god's decree.

Brandon Sanderson

#27. War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.

Shannon A. Thompson

#28. It's a universal law that if you unscrew or unbolt more than 10 parts from any machine that there is only a 3% chance that it will ever go back together again and work.

Conrad Cooper

#29. When you leave it to chance, then all of a sudden you don't have any more luck.

Pat Riley

#30. If there is a nice road to your destination, you are lucky; if there isn't any, then you are even luckier because you will have the chance to be a road-creator!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#31. Franz said with a resigned sigh. 'Normally I am enjoying the whole shooting and exploding and nearly dying thing as much as anyone, but I am wondering perhaps if there is any chance that I might be being allowed to sit this one out for once?

Mark Walden

#32. I'd never once considered Tracy anything other than beautiful, but the hardness of the apocalypse had sculpted her into something almost otherworldly. Any chance I had to grab onto that, I was going to take it.

Mark Tufo

#33. All he wanted to do was shove home and stay there until neither one of them could move, but he found himself saying, "Last chance. You sure about this?" If she had any doubts, now was the time to call the whole thing off. "Oh no. You don't get to take the goddamn noble route now.

Katee Robert

#34. Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.

Marsha Blackburn

#35. Literature is the only chance for a true liar to attain any sort of social acceptance.

Jose Eduardo Agualusa

#36. No chance she'd allow any man to see her naked besides the one who'd gotten her pregnant four times. You broke it, you bought it, baby.

Shannon Hale

#37. You're not by any chance my stepmother are you?" Min said to her mother's reflection. "Because that would explain so much.

Jennifer Crusie

#38. Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

Ed Greenwood

#39. That was my dream, to drive for Ferrari, but I am not a kid any more. If Ferrari is the best team and if I get the chance to drive for Ferrari, it would be with pleasure.

Jean Alesi

#40. It is not like I have gone crazy, I just don't want to take any chances. You never know what could happen.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

#41. Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

Joe Hill

#42. History is the roadmap to a better tomorrow. Destroying it is getting rid of any chance of what not to do for future generations.

Jason E. Hodges

#43. Aster was eager for any kind of
Chance. She had only wanted a chance. A way out, a greater story than the one that had been written for her, just like I had wanted. Tell my bapa I tried, Miz. A chance to control her own destiny. But for her, escape was impossible.

Mary E. Pearson

#44. There was only so much trouble you could get into before the threat of more trouble wasn't even a threat anymore. At some point, you'd waded so far in you had no choice but to paddle through the middle, if you had any chance of making it to the other side.

Kami Garcia

#45. There is a frequently recurring struggle for existence, it follows that any being, if it vary however slightly in any manner profitable to itself, under the complex and sometimes varying conditions of life, will have a better chance of surviving, and thus be NATURALLY SELECTED.

Charles Darwin

#46. The general or prevailing opinion in any subject is rarely or never the whole truth; it is only by the collision of adverse opinions that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied

John Stuart Mill

#47. I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

Parker Stevenson

#48. If you should happen, by any unlikely chance, to know a man more blest in a laugh than Scrooge's nephew, all I can say is, I should like to know him too. Introduce him to me, and I'll cultivate his acquaintance.

Charles Dickens

#49. I had never done any serious acting before, but I decided that it was a chance that I should take.

Helena Christensen

#50. By remaining constrained in one's environment or country or family, one has little chance of being other than the original prescription. By leaving, one gains a perspective, a distance of both space and time, which is essential for writing about family or home, in any case.

Rabih Alameddine

#51. In England, in France, in no other country would a black man have a chance to get elected. There's no two ways about it. Our country [USA] has been better about dealing with immigration and people who are different from each other than any other country in the world, that I know of.

Randy Newman

#52. You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

Terence

#53. I would be content with any job, however thankless, in any quarter, however remote, if I had the chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and a solitary place glad.

John Buchan

#54. Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

Billy Bob Thornton

#55. Regression toward the mean. That is, in any series of random events an extraordinary event is most likely to be followed, due purely to chance, by a more ordinary one.

Leonard Mlodinow

#56. Only risky plans have any chance to be great.

Lorenzo Carcaterra

#57. Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?"
My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

David Klass

#58. I really don't like the gym. I like experiences, so I take any chance I get to go on a bicycle or on a hike.

Blake Lively

#59. Don't give any chance to
someone to stole ur aim,
collect ur full potential to get it
and prove that ur achiever ...

Praveen Kumar

#60. The truth emerging from this scattered picture of nuclear proliferation is simple: there is a stronger chance of a nuclear bomb being used now than at almost any point in the Cold War.

Johann Hari

#61. If we're going to have any chance of sending stuff to other star systems, we need to be laser-focused on becoming a multi-planet civilisation.

Elon Musk

#62. Life without challenge
is life denied any chance
for one to achieve.

J. Benson

#63. The emotionally mature individual should completely accept the fact that we live in a world of probability and chance, where there are not, nor probably ever will be, any absolute certainties, and should realize that it is not at all horrible, indeed - such a probabilistic, uncertain world.

Albert Ellis

#64. Any revolutionary change must be preceded by a passive, affirmative, non-challenging attitude toward change among the mass of our people. They must feel so frustrated, so defeated, so lost, so futureless in the prevailing system that they are willing to let go of the past and chance the future.

Saul Alinsky

#65. The chance you passed up or missed could have had any number of different outcomes, and it's easy to fantasize about how much better every one of those outcomes would have been.

Robin Marantz Henig

#66. For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.

Tad Williams

#67. What is freedom, you ask? It means not being a slave to any circumstance, to any constraint, to any chance; it

Seneca.

#68. The women were quiet. Blazing Knight checked her computing jobs on the net. A plastic surgeon was found. She could go any time and offer him a chance to repair her rotten parts, to reconstruct her again to a beautiful young female.

J.M.K. Walkow

#69. When I walk around New York now, there are so many ghosts. I find it very uncomfortable. There were many hard years, and I never really achieved any kind of comfortable financial success, so I just associate it with struggle. When I had a chance to get out, I was elated.

Michael Gira

#70. There's a better chance of a brokered convention than any time in our lifetime.

Renee Montagne

#71. Any chance you have to sit back and be the one watching is great.

Mats Sundin

#72. The word God asks a question and then answers it before there is any chance to wonder.

Miranda July

#73. Any chance that you're pregnant?' the technician says as he pulls the X-ray lamp over my swollen knee.
'No,' Henry and Dad say at the same time.

Miranda Kenneally

#74. I have never quite understood the relationship between beauty and weakness, womanly sweetness and womanly silliness; to my mind, indeed, that woman being the most beautiful who is the most capable, while weakness and silliness can never by any chance be other than unlovely.

Eliza Lynn Linton

#75. I thought any chance I had of space travel would be military or government-controlled.

David Mackay

#76. Pretty much any time I got a chance to do something cool, I tried to grab for it, and that's where my solace comes from.

Randy Pausch

#77. Bridges are burned, Iona reminded herself, for the chance to build new ones. Wherever they led--and they'd already brought her closer to who she was than any of the ones before.

Nora Roberts

#78. Do you think there is any chance the Lord would have inspired his prophets to prophesy about us, only to then take a chance on the outcome of the latter days by sending men and women he couldn't count on? There is no chance - zero chance - He would have done that.

Sheri Dew

#79. Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the same Influence on the Understanding, and begets a like Species of Belief or Opinion.

David Hume

#80. Ah, but is any history really all that ancient?' Second asked. 'Doesn't every moment from the past affect the present?'
This man was more annoying than any history teacher Jordan had ever had.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

#81. With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader.

George Eliot

#82. I can't imagine Josh falling for someone vanilla.
Not that Josh would ever fall for me.
But I wouldn't want to ruin any chance.
Even though I don't have a chance.
But just in case I do.
Even though I don't.

Stephanie Perkins

#83. Any chance of an appointment? I know it's a bit unusual and nervy, but I have been given a death sentence and have to get my affairs in quick order.

Virginia Aird

#84. Bessie, you must promise not to scold me any more till I go." "Well, I will; but mind you are a very good girl, and don't be afraid of me. Don't start when I chance to speak rather sharply; it's so provoking.

Charlotte Bronte

#85. The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

James Van Der Beek

#86. Ironically, the main task of chess software companies today is to find ways to make the program weaker, not stronger, and to provide enough options that any user can pick from different levels and the machine will try to make enough mistakes to give him a chance.

Garry Kasparov

#87. I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

J.K. Rowling

#88. I jump at any chance to go back into theater.

Taye Diggs

#89. I would rather deal with a tyrant any day than a committee. Committees, as a general rule, aren't willing to take chances, which is why you have a committee in the first place - so you can share the blame.

Hal Riney

#90. Don't push too hard; your last chance to see a person the way you wanted them to be may come at any moment.

Danielle Evans

#91. 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.

Noam Chomsky

#92. Christmas for me is all about spending time with my family. I cherish any chance we have to spend all day together making gingerbread houses, baking cookies, or sitting around and watching movies.

Blake Lively

#93. Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie's fairy-light-thing. Do you think there's any chance I'm a fairy?"
"No, Z. Focus. True Blood is fiction. This is the real world.

P.C. Cast

#94. We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

Susan Sarandon

#95. . Oh, my future brother-in-law called me today to find out if any of my friends from New York might be interested in making a bad decision for the night. Since when did I become a pimp to get Chance laid? I thought he was bringing that lovely flower lady.

Alex Morgan

#96. I can wear a sexy dress to any red carpet event. My wedding is my chance to go all the way and wear a princess silhouette.

Roselyn Sanchez

#97. Most people around here prefer undead drivers, so I never get a chance to make any money on steady contracts.

T.K. Naliaka

#98. Don't be afraid to take chances. The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Nicky Hilton

#99. Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.

Eva LaRue

#100. I don't know what I need, or even what I want, from her or from anybody. There's no way to tell her the truth, because the truth is that my heart is broken, and I don't think there's any chance of it being sewn back together. This is permanent. It can't be fixed.

Hannah Harrington