Top 100 Chances Are Quotes
#1. Never say never, for if you live long enough, chances are you will not be able to abide by the simplest of such injunctions.
Gloria Swanson
#2. It's extremely difficult to describe interestingly what happens on the pitch. Thousands of journalists write millions of words every week trying to do it, so your chances of avoiding cliche are very slim. And you're trying to write fiction, not a match report.
Mal Peet
#3. I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it.
Stephen Colbert
#4. Society tells me to follow my own truth, but I don't let society tell me what to do. If you need someone to tell you that, chances are you're part of the crowd that will move on to the next fashion that comes around.
Criss Jami
#5. Doubt gets a bad rap. Doubting doesn't mean you've stopped believing, but that you've started thinking. Sheep doubt nothing. Chances are you'll get further in life by questioning things than by living like something that ends up as dinner and a sweater.
Amy Alkon
#6. What might not be there are the chances you have right now. If you can hold on another hour, another day - if you can live one more good, honorable minute - those are the victories. And they open up the whole world.
Lia Habel
#7. I tell people that if I'm ignoring them, chances are I may not have heard them. I depend on hearing aids, but I've not found it a problem. I'm visually very aware!
Joseph Mawle
#8. Life is a journey, not a destination; there are no mistakes, just chances we've taken.
India.Arie
#9. The sling is to a rifle what the holster is to a pistol. If you have a sling, chances are you will keep the rifle with you. If there is no sling present, you will set the rifle down. When you are at the absolutely farthest point away from the rifle that you can possibly get, you'll need it.
Clint Smith
#10. The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are they will not marry or have children because it demands to much time.
Frederick Lenz
#11. The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?
Tyson Chandler
#12. If you are not happy while getting rich, chances are that you will not be happy when you do get rich.
Robert Kiyosaki
#13. There are no chances." He favored her again with that unreadable look. "You succeed or you fail. Battles are not won by men who refuse to take risks." It
Kate Elliott
#14. Writers do well to carefully attend to those moments of inspiration, because chances are that they're writing from a very deep place. The subsequent search that ensues to continually attend to that voice that you hear is what is going to give the story drive.
Adam Ross
#15. If I flip a coin, what are the chances I'll get head?
J.B. Salsbury
#16. Thank god there's no 48-hour race anywhere in the world, because chances are nobody could beat Porsche in a 48 hour race. They're probably the only cars in the world that would stand up for something like that.
Carroll Shelby
#17. New Beginnings are in order, and you are bound to feel some level of excitement as new chances come your way.
Auliq Ice
#18. Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
Michael Korda
#19. The chances are you've never seen the other side of me. You've seen the event side of me when I'm on stage. But there is another side of me. If you evoke that side, you won't like it. It's a nasty side. You don't want to see that side. You're not missing anything by not seeing it.
Prem Rawat
#20. I know you are always finding ways to love me in spite of how horrible I am, I hope I haven't run out of chances.
Ann Brashares
#21. We just haven't found Bigfoot because the world is big. And the woods are deep. The more TV shows that we can get where people go out looking for Bigfoot, the better our chances are. So let's get more of those shows going.
Rob Huebel
#22. Did you know that the chances of being in a plane crash are less than 0.00001 per cent? That means that you're more likely to be killed by a donkey or to naturally conceive identical quadruplets. Bunty
Holly Smale
#23. Second chances are not that important. What's important, is being ready when the first chance
is given.
Jay Long
#24. If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you'll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you'll end up mighty comfortable.
T. Harv Eker
#25. Trying to control the future is like trying to take the master carpenter's place. When you handle the master carpenter's tools, chances are that you'll cut your hand.
Lao-Tzu
#26. If you focus on what you want and you persevere, chances are you succeed. You know, that's what I found. It might not be in acting - it might be in business, financing, it might be in the arts, it might be in anything. But it's all about focusing and being inspired.
Cory Monteith
#27. I've always known that if I recorded an album, it would come out, and people would enjoy it! Whereas if I wrote a movie script, chances are better than even that I'd just be another guy in L.A. with a movie script in his drawer.
Al Yankovic
#28. Sometimes I live in fear. But when I have to take chances about people I love, relationships, my daughter and immediate family, those decisions are easy.
Paul Walker
#29. I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.
Meredith Brooks
#30. The chances of your being harmed by terrorists are mathematically minute. The chance of your being robbed by your own government? That's easy: 100 per cent.
Joseph Sobran
#31. There are plenty of violent people, but for any randomly selected person today the chances of meeting a violent death at the hands of his or her fellow humans is lower now than it has ever been in human history.
Peter Singer
#32. If you go through life expecting nothing chances are you'll be content most of the time.
Mark W. Boyer
#33. Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
Eric Roth
#34. I have no shortage of material or offers, it's just a case of what you select to do. But I think it's realistic that my chances of playing Romeo are now over.
Sean Connery
#35. If you buy a book on golf instruction buy the thinnest book you can find. The thinner the book, chances are the easier and more elementary the instruction. It can do one of two things: help you more or hurt you less. Both are good compared to the alternative.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#36. If you assume that the new - and simply because it's new - is always to be better than the old, chances are you've never known anything valuable.
Criss Jami
#37. So on one hand, because the wilderness was familiar to me, it really helped me be brave. But it still was scary sometimes. I had to say to myself: "Chances are, you're not going to be mauled by a bear."
Cheryl Strayed
#38. The chances of finding out what's really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied.
Douglas Adams
#39. There's a thing called game, and when you're out and you're trying to push up on a female and you're going, "Yo, I want to be your knight in shining armor," chances are you're going to get a drink on your face.
Shemar Moore
#40. If you're a successful woman, chances are that you spend a ton of time working. You're probably on your email a lot, taking phone calls and going on regular business trips that don't involve your man. He can start to feel left out of a very important and very time-consuming part of your life.
Patti Stanger
#41. If there's a magic pony in the story, chances are I'll read it.
Chris Adrian
#42. If our team is playing well and winning, it doesn't really matter to me if I am scoring points or not. For me though the more I can help offensively the better our chances are to win, so I just push myself to get better and hope it continues for the rest of the year.
Eric Staal
#43. What are the chances that you'd be there? It's funny sometimes the way the world works. Makes you think there's got to be a reason things turn out the way they do." -Louis
Michelle Schlicher
#44. Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they are born to, but are free to employ their faculties, and such favourable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them most desirable.
John Stuart Mill
#45. The chances of you winning are the same as the chances of HELL freezing over.
Vince McMahon
#46. It's hard to really get that excited about movies. Think about it like this: how many good comedy movies come out a year? Maybe one or two? And then, in those movies, what are the chances that there's a character that I'm the best fit to play? It's really small!
Aziz Ansari
#47. Know the enemy and know yourself; in a hundred battles you will never be in peril. When you are ignorant of the enemy, but know yourself, your chances of winning or losing are equal. If ignorant both of your enemy and yourself, you are certain in every battle to be in peril.
Sun Tzu
#48. Independence is paramount and freedom holds a lot of new possibilities, if all the chances are given at the right time.
Auliq Ice
#49. Chances of the Jews and Palestinians uniting to build the first interfaith space station are roughly equal.
Stephen King
#50. The greatest adventure is what lies ahead.
Today and tomorrow are yet to be said.
The chances, the changes are all yours to make.
The mold of your life is in your hands to break.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#51. I should rather take my chances with the lions of Rome's ancient Colosseum than endure another tea chat with the likes of them. At least the lions are honest about their desire to eat you and make no effort to hide it.
Libba Bray
#52. There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.
Mike Wallace
#53. If you don't act now while it's fresh in your mind, it will probably join the list of things you were always going to do but never quite got around to. Chances are you'll also miss some opportunities.
Paul Clitheroe
#54. Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it.
Clay A. Johnson
#55. I'm not a part of the glamour industry. I would like to focus on my game, and there are minimal chances of me getting into films.
Sania Mirza
#56. There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.
Pat Summitt
#57. Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.
Lord Chesterfield
#58. If you are weak ... . It is ok. Because you can get variety of opportunities to strengthen yourself ... ... you can have several chances to become a stronger individual. But if you are a hater you only have one opportunity to keep being weaker day after day.
Sameh Elsayed
#59. If you never get criticized, chances are you aren't getting anything done.
Charles R. Swindoll
#60. The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.
Mara Wilson
#61. Nobody is a lost cause. They just think they are, so they don't even bother to try sometimes.
Anna Todd
#62. If you can find meaning in the type of running you need todo to stay on this team, chances are you can find meaning in another absurd pastime: Life.
Robert Towne
#63. Life is all about chances. It's all about these little moments that add up to greatness. And there are times when you have to grab greatness by the balls and say, 'Hey! Greatness! I've got your nuts and you can't do a single godsdamn thing about it!
T.J. Klune
#64. If some folks have buried their racial prejudices, the chances are that they've got the graves marked and will have no trouble disinterring their pet hates.
Josephine Lawrence
#65. There are few second chances when it comes to establishing your leadership legacy.
Scott H. Dearduff
#66. If we can widen the range of experiences beyond what we as individuals have encountered, if we can draw upon the experiences of others who've had to confront comparable situations in the past, then - although there are no guarantees - our chances of acting wisely should increase proportionately.
Edward Hallett Carr
#67. If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.
Raul Ramos Y Sanchez
#68. China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.
Ziyi Zhang
#69. If I can't drive my old pickup to wherever I'm going, well, chances are good that I just won't go.
Ward Churchill
#70. If you're not married, chances are you think a lot about you.
Tracy McMillan
#71. Your chances of survival are about one in a thousand.
Forget about the thousand.
Concentrate on the one.
The Doctor
#72. We promised we'd all stay in touch. Even joked about a yearly reunion. These kinds of goodbyes are the scary goodbyes. The goodbyes where you know the chances of seeing each other again are very slim.
Estelle Maskame
#73. You are my first best friend, my first crush, my first kiss, my first dance partner, and my first love. Please don't be my first heartbreak. I want you to be my first everything, Josh. Please, don't let it be too late. Please, let me love you because I don't think I can stop even if you tell me too.
Andrea Michelle
#74. A new survey indicates that Obama supporters love iPhones. So if you have an iPhone, chances are you are going to be supporting President Obama. In a related story, if you support Governor Chris Christie from New Jersey, chances are you love IHOP.
David Letterman
#75. If your parents don't have babies, chances are you won't either.
Someone
#76. If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.
Noam Chomsky
#77. Chances are, if you are following the crowd, you're following the wrong path.
Bob Proctor
#78. For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions ...
Willard Van Orman Quine
#79. For a Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work.
C.S. Lewis
#80. Running for and holding public office requires little more than making informed decisions based on the facts, your values, and getting to know your fellow citizens. You'll need the courage to be yourself, and a desire to do the right thing. Chances are you're doing that already. In
Marian Walsh
#82. If you love them in the morning with their eyes full of crust; if you love them at night with their hair full of rollers, chances are, you're in love.
Miles Davis
#83. If you find yourself caring for a relative with dementia, the chances are you'll need help.
Phyllis Logan
#84. Pete Rose gets banned for life for gambling while the drug addicts are allowed back after a year; and then they get extra chances after that. Baseball is saying, in effect, that gambling is worse than drugs. How do kids make sense out of that?
Jim Bouton
#85. Chances are you have a job. Chances are your job sucks. But you've learned a few things from this job, mainly, YOU DON'T LIKE BEING AN EMPLOYEE!
Robert T. Kiyosaki
#86. Mental health professionals have said for a long time that individuals cannot adapt well to too many life changes at once. If you suffer a loss in the family, change jobs, and move all within a short time, the chances are your own internal stability may break down, or show signs of serious strain.
Ronald A. Heifetz
#87. Sometimes in life, there are no second chances
L.Joe
#88. Sometimes the road to Heaven leads you straight through hell. If it's hard going, chances are, you are on the right path.
Mark J. Jannetta
#89. We all make mistakes, and we all need second chances. For youth in foster care, these mistakes are often purposeful - if not consciously so; a way to test the strength of a bond and establish trust in a new parent.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
#90. You are what you do. If you do boring, stupid monotonous work, chances are you'll end up boring, stupid and monotonous. Work is a much better explanation for the creeping cretinization all around us than even such significant moronizing mechanisms as television and education.
Bob Black
#91. Think about it: the chances of meeting your other half are tiny. Most of us are doomed to knowing there's something better out there but we can't discover it.
Joss Stirling
#92. Chances are, while you can come across as introverted, the real reason for your apparent reserve is you're happy to be the life of your own party (be it in your head or in your own space) rather than follow the crowd.
Rosemary Breen
#93. Chances are the movements of the euro as against the dollar will be relatively moderate.
Robert C. Solomon
#94. Perhaps I'm old and tired, but I always think that the chances of finding out what really is going on are so absurdly remote that the only thing to do is to say hang the sense of it and just keep yourself occupied.
Douglas Adams
#95. I want you to believe in yourself, and take chances, even if it is scary and even if you don't know what you are doing yet.
Auliq Ice
#96. If you listen only to those around you, the chances of your dreams coming true are very small.
Sophia Amoruso
#97. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.
Alvin Lee
#98. I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick with it long enough. Either way, imagine what you might be able to learn in the process - about the work, and yes, of yourself too.
Chris Hill
#99. You wait a bit, wait a bit," said Stepan Arkadyevitch, smiling and touching his hand. "I've told you what I know, and I repeat that in this delicate and tender matter, as far as one can conjecture, I believe the chances are in your favor.
Leo Tolstoy
#100. I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.
David Cassidy
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