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Chances Are Quotes (page 8)

You don’t think – not possibly – not as a mere hundredth chance – there might be things that are real though we can’t see them? … If there are souls, could there not be soul-houses? C. S. Lewis
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are. Terry Brooks
Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success. Napoleon Bonaparte
What are the years from twenty to forty? Fettered and bound by personal and emotional relationships. That's bound to be. That's living. But later there's a new stage. You can think, observe life, discover something about other people and the truth about yourself. Life becomes real--significant. You see it as a whole. Not just one scene--the scene you, as an actor, are playing. No man or woman is actually himself (or herself) till after forty-five. That's when individuality has a... Agatha Christie
All of us who are convinced that our military needs all the support the government and public will provide are pleased that he will have his chance to do just that. Alex Morrison
Martin Puryear quote: "Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so..."
Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness. Martin Puryear
David Elkind quote: "Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance,..."
Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. David Elkind
In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow - and at this point I think the odds are against me... the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there's only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted. Zac Efron
Anytime you have a reelection campaign against an incumbent president and you're the party out of power - on the one hand it's wide open because there's not an heir apparent - but people are also gauging how strong is that incumbent president and what are my chances. Bob McDonnell
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person. W. Somerset Maugham
There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door. Marlee Matlin
There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable. Pauley Perrette
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born. Thor Heyerdahl
You never know how things are going to go. I think you hope that people are going to dig what you do and that you're going to get the chance to do it on a really comfortable level. Amanda Marshall
And we are grateful to the American young men and women who are risking their lives to give the Iraqi people this chance, this dream of democracy in Iraq now. Ahmed Chalabi

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