Quotes About Chances

#1. Italians can never win from you, but you can lose to them.
(when asked about Ajax's chances in the 1995 Champs League final against AC Milan)

Johan Cruijff

#2. I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and challenge yourself and take chances.

Darren Aronofsky

#3. The only way to improve the chances for finding winners is to keep all the choices open and try them all.

Freeman Dyson

#4. What is not grasped has all the chances to become real.

Edmond Jabes

#5. The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#6. This is not to say, there never comes a day I'll take my chances and start again. And when I look behind on all my younger times, I'll have to thank the wrongs that led me to a love so strong.

John Mayer

#7. As the great self-help coach Tony Robbins says, "If you don't know what you want, the chances that you'll get it are extremely low." If

Ben Horowitz

#8. Bad choices or good, if you never take chances, someone else will build your life for you.

Ellen Hopkins

#9. Most fans go wild when they see a goalie make what looks like a great save, but the chances are what they are seeing is a save that was made from being out of position.

Mike Richter

#10. There was no time to weigh chances. There was no such thing as chances anyway, in the distorted perspective of the weed fumes.

Cornell Woolrich

#11. It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. The bottom line is, life is for living, sweetie. It's for taking chances and trying to grab up every little piece of happiness you can latch on to.

Katie MacAlister

#13. I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.

Lance Armstrong

#14. If you want twenty minutes of quality time with someone you love, schedule three or four hours with him or her one afternoon, and chances are, somewhere in the middle of that three or four hours you will have your twenty minutes of quality time. When

Matthew Kelly

#15. Fail Fast: break items into small chunks which allows for more experimentation, leading to more chances for success Fail Forward: learn from what didn't work, but continue toward what will work Fail Better: the best way to increase our amount of learning is to increase our amount of failure

Erik Qualman

#16. In New York, we had primary elections for mayor. To improve their chances, all five candidates changed their name to Rudy Giuliani.

Conan O'Brien

#17. I won't remain in a marriage where you refuse to trust me, to take some chances for my sake.
Abigail Mercer

Sabrina Jeffries

#18. Well, it's always been my nature to take chances My right hand drawing back while my left hand advances

Bob Dylan

#19. How resilient people are. If one day you woke up to find that you had been transformed into a gigantic insect, the chances are you would just get up and carry on with your new life.

Paul Broks

#20. If we go out there and do our best every game, then I will take my chances that the results will be more good than bad.

Stuart Pearce

#21. Life is a constant balancing act, and keeping your balance is not always possible. The better you prepare yourself, the better your chances of regaining your balance when you lose it.

Walter C. Conner

#22. Don't take chances. Take vitamins.

Helen Saul Case

#23. I like to take chances. The actors I admire are the ones who aren't afraid to make themselves nasty, bad or even goofy. I've never shied away from controversial characters.

Matt Dillon

#24. First loves are not necessarily more foolish than others; but the chances are certainly against them. Proximity of time or place, a variety of accidental circumstances more than the essential merits of the object, often produce what is called first love.

Maria Edgeworth

#25. Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking; even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.

Sloane Crosley

#26. A part of me will probably always love you too, but I can't take chances with you Chase. You'll leave me one day, and it will kill me when you do.

Molly McAdams

#27. Truth be told, if Islam and the Sixth Mass Extinction continue on their path unhindered, chances are worlds will collide with high casualty rates...

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#28. Hey now," Maahes said. "Don't be making that face. Okay? You start crying, I start crying, and I look like a total freak when I cry. Nothing worse than a big-ass man blubbering like a baby. Totally kills my chances with the women. You know?

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#29. 10.30 Newsnight: What Are The Chances Of World War Three Breaking Out After You Have Gone To Bed?

Alan Coren

#30. On the list of things that are the worst about life, missing chances will always be number one.

Kevin Emerson

#31. If you find yourself asking yourself (and your friends), "Am I really a writer? Am I really an artist?" chances are you are. The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death.

Steven Pressfield

#32. Second Chances [10w]
Every time we go full circle
it's a new circle.

Beryl Dov

#33. You don't get many chances in life to make a movie, and if someone says they don't like it, I say, 'I do'. I've made records before, and if someone said it sucked, it bummed me out.

Dito Montiel

#34. Is this blackmail or bribery?"
"Neither. It's insurance."
"Insurance?"
"Yeah. That's twelve cups of coffee. Twelve trips to Grounds. Twelve chances to see you.

Kim Holden

#35. Every year, we have 365 chances to begin a new lifetime.

C. JoyBell C.

#36. Don't take life too seriously! Nobody gets out alive anyway. Smile. Be goofy. Take chances. Have fun. Inspire.

Dawn Gluskin

#37. He [the golfer] must have the courage to keep trying in the face of ill luck or disappointment, and timidity to appreciate and appraise the dangers of each stroke, and to curb the desire to take chances beyond reasonable hope of success.

Bobby Jones

#38. Just make sure the day doesn't pass without sayin' what's in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they're gone forever.

Dan Groat

#39. We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

Jean Smart

#40. If the firms that employ an increasing majority of the population are driven solely to satisfy the owner's greed at the expense of working conditions, of the stability of the community, and of the health of the environment, chances are that the quality of our lives will be worse than it is now.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#41. Andre had never mastered the art of ironing. He usually ironed more wrinkles in than out. Pistols, knives, and explosives he could handle, but put a hot iron in his hands and chances were that he'd get hurt.

Toby Joyce

#42. I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.

Sam Watkins

#43. "I am not much of a mathematician," said the cigarette, "but I can add to a man's nervous troubles, I can subtract from his physical energy, I can multiply his aches and pains, I can divide his mental powers, I take interest from his work, and discount his chances for success."

David Starr Jordan

#44. One is not quite certain that creativeness in the arts, literature, and science functions best in an environment of absolute freedom. Chances are that a relatively mild tyranny stimulates creativeness.

Eric Hoffer

#45. What to say if I was wise and on your age I will take the chances and take Reddit Collection #1 and #2...

But if you are hungry... go and buy one sandwich!

Deyth Banger

#46. Sure, life as we know it is enough. But life as we don't know it? That's where the magic awaits. That's where second chances abound.

Holly Elissa Bruno

#47. People like you end up doing great things because of the chances you're willing to take.

Celine Garcia

#48. I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic ... it's a multifaceted experience. If you lose the faith, chances are you'll keep the guilt, so it isn't as if you've been skunked altogether.

Janet Evanovich

#49. I love you.'
'I love you too.'
She never misses an opportunity to say it. You never know when you can run out of chances.

Cheryl McIntyre

#50. Here I am in the state of New Mexico. George Bush is still in the state of denial. New Mexico has five electoral votes. The state of denial has none. I like my chances.

John F. Kerry

#51. The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.

Jon Stewart

#52. No second chances.

Donna Tartt

#53. Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse. Suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better.

Vic Fuentes

#54. It's hard to be good at anything. If you're passionate, the chances are that you will find a job that will make you happy.

Arthur Rankin Jr.

#55. I decided I should go after the roles I like, that I am inspired by, and then, if I am having a good time, chances are that people will like watching you.

James Marsden

#56. There is in the worst of fortune the best chances for a happy change.

Robin S. Sharma

#57. I'm more comfortable knowing that, chances are, I'm going to fail at this. I've become comfortable with that.

Ian Thorpe

#58. Life is all about risks, taking chances. It doesn't matter how safe and comfortable you want things to be. They never are. - Brooke Hart

Kathleen O'Reilly

#59. *You only get one chance to make a first impression.* Ah, whatever!!! Who said you get three chances to make the second impression?!!

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#60. Never trust a woman whose father calls her 'Princess'. Chances are she believes it.

Wes Smith

#61. I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

Christopher Walken

#62. Fun is the cheapest and best medicine in the world for your children as well as for yourself. Give it to them in good large doses. It will not only save you doctors' bills, but it will also help to make your children happier, and will improve their chances in life.

Orison Swett Marden

#63. Medicine being a compendium of the successive and contradictory mistakes of medical practitioners, when we summon the wisest of them to our aid, the chances are that we may be relying on a scientific truth the error of which will be recognized in a few years time.

Marcel Proust

#64. If youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.

Julia Sorel

#65. [The photographer's task] is to describe the existing light ... Chances are, if you believe the light, you're going to believe that the things photographed existed in the world.

Henry Wessel Jr.

#66. She is beginning to think it is possible that all creation is a spurt of blank matter that chances to make an emerald planet here, a dead star there, with random waste between.

Don DeLillo

#67. I see entrepreneurship, like many other activities, as a type of mission. A mission by which we can provide better life chances and quality for both our current and future generations.

Miguel Reynolds Brandao

#68. I don't buy idea of second chance.
With hope we make a lot of chances.

Toba Beta

#69. Conor studied the man before him. "You're talking second chances?" The priest shrugged, matter-of-fact. "God hands them out all the time. Why not you? Why not now?

Ruth Logan Herne

#70. Over the years I've learned that investing in other people's success doesn't just make them more likely to enjoy working with me. It also improves my own chances of survival and success.

Chris Hadfield

#71. When a teacher tries to teach something to the entire class at the same time, chances are, one-third of the kids already know it; one-third will get it; and the remaining third won't. So two-thirds of the children are wasting their time.

Lilian Katz

#72. Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#73. When you hear someone use the word 'meds' instead of the word 'medicine,' chances are they're no stranger to massive doses of mind-altering psychotropic drugs. Back out of the room slowly.

Amy Sedaris

#74. Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

Noam Chomsky

#75. Don't let them get to you. They have no idea what it's like to be you. They have no idea the things you went through. The things you've seen. They can pretend they know. They can dream up the worst-case scenario, but chances are, it doesn't even come close. You are stronger than they are.

Jennifer Rush

#76. When you walk around braced for impact, you're dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.

Seth Godin

#77. I'm not saying I didn't have ample time to recover, ample time to get to my best, I felt this year I did fine. When I stepped on the field for the national team, I was ready and able to make an impact, to score goals, to create chances.

Tiffeny Milbrett

#78. People refuse to take chances in business, because they fear the criticism which may follow if they fail. The fear of criticism, in such cases is stronger than the DESIRE for success.

Napoleon Hill

#79. We need to reward the 'thankless job' of substitute teaching with better pay and chances for permanent positions. I look forward to the day when no student comes home saying, 'I didn't learn much today ... we had a sub.'

Adora Svitak

#80. Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.

Robert Collier

#81. But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

Paul Auster

#82. You have the courage to take chances.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#83. A risk-taking environment starts at the top of a corporation. If the CEO doesn't have this spirit, chances are you won't find it anywhere else in the organization.

Mary Kay Ash

#84. If you love, absolutely love what you are doing, chances are excellent that you will succeed. There is nothing so exhausting as working on a job you don't like.

Napoleon Hill

#85. Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.

Alice Hoffman

#86. Look, I had to take chances or it wasn't fun being funny.

Mel Brooks

#87. Statistics show that a soldier's chances of survival in the front lines of combat are greater than the chances of an unborn child avoiding abortion. What should be the safest place to live in America - a mother's womb - is now the most dangerous place.

Randy Alcorn

#88. You've got to take some chances and know when you're beat and know how to get certain advantages.

Phil Ivey

#89. Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.

Gertrude Atherton

#90. You can never take away the memories I have of us; I will hold those deep inside. And someday, when my heart heals, I may even be able to forgive you. But I just don't have it in me for second chances. I've done those before and they always turn into three or four. It never ends.

Courtney Giardina

#91. I don't like pitchers who walk hitters. It puts pressure on your defense. The less walks you have, the better your chances of getting through innings. More walks lead to overworking your bullpen, sometimes just by having to get somebody up, just in case.

Kevin Towers

#92. True wisdom, which is not certain of anything in this world of contradictions, would have prevented him from attaining his present position. It would have alarmed his superiors, and done away with his chances of promotion.

Joseph Conrad

#93. The more we really believe the truths God calls us to believe, the more we will take chances with God.

Lysa TerKeurst

#94. If you're not making some notable mistakes along the way, you're certainly not taking enough business and career chances.

Sallie Krawcheck

#95. I am grateful for all the chances I took which lead to a great paths.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#96. Run with what works: Sell to the people who believe in you and are willing to take the chances and make the experience happen.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

#97. I make wishes, but she says never be afraid to take chances.

Delano Johnson

#98. When you're on the road, there's no time for second chances and messing yourself up.

Shaun Alexander

#99. So do you actually expect to just pick up where we left off?" "Second chances can be deadly, but I set you free once. Now you're mine." "I

B.B. Reid

#100. This much I'm sure of. Chances for winning = 1 - (# of math students playing)/ (# of math students cheering). That's a fraction.

Danica McKellar