I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
Abraham LincolnRead the best books first or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Henry David ThoreauThe beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
AristotleThe greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife is full of chances and changes and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.
AristotleThere is no chance, no destiny, no fate that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxI never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore VidalWe are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
Niels BohrThose who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
Calvin CoolidgeTrue ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
Alexander PopeIt's crazy to take little in between jobs just because they look good on your resume. That's like saving sex for your old age. Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.
Warren BuffettScience predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
Stephen HawkingBisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody AllenI mean, we all need a second chance sometimes.
Joel OsteenAll human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, desire.
AristotleA child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested, on the contrary - he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
Aldous HuxleyChance is a word void of sense, nothing can exist without a cause.
VoltaireI think it's better we downplay our chances. I think we should cherish this role as the underdog because it's the perfect way to ride this race.
Lance ArmstrongThe successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.
Roger BabsonProducing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking a chance on protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going 'I'm so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.'
Drew BarrymoreSecond we will give our fellow citizens the skills they need for the jobs of today and the careers of tomorrow. When it comes to the school your child will attend every parent should have a choice and every child should have a chance.
Mitt RomneyNo man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail, for being in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room better food and commonly better company.
Samuel JohnsonYou can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever it is the gateway to a middle-class life.
Barack ObamaGOD gave you the time space cause material idea skill chance and fortune. Why should you feel as if you are the doer?
Sai BabaSee in everyone the Lord Himself moving in that form. Do not talk evil of others, see only good in them. Welcome every chance to help others to console others and to encourage others along the spiritual path.
Sai BabaIf the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill CosbyThe 50-50-90 rule: Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right there's a 90% probability you'll get it wrong.
Andy RooneyI mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
Lily TomlinI've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck take more chances. Be more active. Show up more often.
Brian TracyChance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
EuripidesIf you are given a chance to be a role model I think you should always take it because you can influence a person's life in a positive light and that's what I want to do. That's what it's all about.
Tiger WoodsHow many chances to you get to make a musical about a serial killer? The minute Tim Burton approached me I was in.
Johnny DeppI figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.
Fran LebowitzWeird things happen in the NBA and tonight was one of them. We had a chance to win the game and just didn't close it out. They made some big shots down the stretch and came away with the victory. Even though (Odom) made a mistake as a team defense down the stretch cost us the ballgame.
Kobe BryantThe whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance a revolutionary crisis or a battle.
Alexis de TocquevilleI want to be a poet and have a chance to explore that and let people know what's really on my mind.
Christina AguileraChance my dear is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
Honore de BalzacWar never takes a wicked man by chance the good man always.
SophoclesChance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.
Anatole FranceTake a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Dale CarnegieThe people of New York took a big chance on me. And I'm well aware of that.
Hillary ClintonNo foreign policy - no matter how ingenious - has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
Henry A. KissingerNothing happens by chance my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing and such a meaning behind this. Part for you part for me may not see it all real clear right now but we will before long.
Richard BachFor the happiest life days should be rigorously planned nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlinIf you keep saying things are going to be bad you have a good chance of being a prophet.
Isaac Bashevis SingerLuck is not chance it's toil, fortune's expensive smile is earned.
Emily DickinsonWhat can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
Anatole FranceWomen have equal chances and equal rights to attain Godhead
Sai BabaEqual opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Laurence J. PeterAnything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance but you have to believe and you have to fight.
Lance ArmstrongThere is no such thing as chance, and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.
Friedrich SchillerI think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.
Dolly PartonThe great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean you can always do it later.
Harvey FiersteinWe cannot always assure the future of our friends, we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry A. KissingerPersonally I would be delighted if there were a life after death especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
Carl SaganNo woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway I wouldn't want to be prime minister, you have to give yourself 100 percent.
Margaret ThatcherOur soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings our sense of direction. When we're two balloons and together our direction is up chances are we've found the right person.
Richard BachIt is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
Simone WeilThe person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
John Stuart MillBeing in a ship is being in a jail with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel JohnsonThere are golfers everywhere who may never get a chance to play a links course in Scotland a tree-lined course in America or the sand belts of Australia. Hopefully I can bring some of those elements into their backyards.
Tiger WoodsAt a time when nobody thought we'd ever see a new steel mill built in America we took a chance and built one in a corn field in Indiana. Today Steel Dynamics is one of the largest steel producers in the United States.
Mitt Romney[In purchasing] zeros ... a macro-based commitment such as this never has anything close to a 100 percent chance of being successful.
Warren BuffettEvery existing thing is born without reason prolongs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.
Jean-Paul SartreI can't understand why more people aren't bisexual. It would double your chances for a date on Saturday night.
Woody AllenWe are not trying to entertain the critics. I'll take my chances with the public.
Walt DisneyI just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself as well as a child.
Hillary ClintonTo fulfill a dream to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor to be given a chance to create is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
Bette DavisIf you don't design your own life plan chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Jim RohnAn American cannot converse, but he can discuss, and his talk falls into a dissertation. He speaks to you as if he was addressing a meeting, and if he should chance to become warm in the discussion he will say "Gentlemen" to the person with whom he is conversing.
Alexis de TocquevilleThe chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small and even though we shall all die some day we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
Richard DawkinsNot only 'moderns' but even those who earned distinction as the foremost Pundits those who expound to the people gathering fame use the Vedas for promoting their material well-being and not for helping them on the spiritual path. They are unable to discover the sacred task for which the Vedas exist. Whenever the chance arises they benefit by the scholarship but they are not eager or able to use the Vedas to purify their daily lives.
Sai BabaEvery action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.
AristotleNow it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bog-gglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God. The argument goes something like this: `I refuse to prove that I exist ' says God `for proof denies faith and without faith I am nothing.' `But ' says Man `The Babel fish is a dead giveaway isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist and so therefore by your own arguments you don't. QED.' `Oh dear ' says God `I hadn't thought of that ' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic. `Oh that was easy ' says Man and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.
Douglas AdamsWe should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate.
Henry MillerA wise man turns chance into good fortune.
Thomas FullerChance gives rise to thoughts and chance removes them, no art can keep or acquire them.
Blaise PascalParents are given that name because it is through them that we have the wonderful chance of life on earth. For the sacrifices that they have made for us we must PAY RENTS to them.
Sai BabaWhat are you going to do play with your prick for another 20 to 30 years >Read People Magazine your whole life...? Take a freakin' chance!
George CarlinBefore complaining that you are a slave to another be sure that you are not a slave to self. Look within,...You will find there perchance slavish thoughts slavish desires and in your daily life and conduct slavish habits. Conquer these, cease to be a slave to self and no man will have the power to enslave you.
James AllenWhile I'm absolutely enjoying my time as a retired athlete with Sheryl and the kids the recent smear campaign out of France has awoken my competitive side. I'm not willing to put a percentage on the chances but I will no longer rule it out.
Lance ArmstrongYou have no reason to feel proud when you are able to help another for your skill or wealth or strength or courage or official position that gave you the chance to serve was the gift of God whether you recognize it or not. You are only offering this God's gift to another God's gift namely the poor the illiterate the weak the diseased the grieving the broken-hearted who seek your help.
Sai BabaA chance conglomeration of humans does not become a society.
Sai BabaSuffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
Arthur SchopenhauerEvery possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
Arthur SchopenhauerWhat else can it be? ... Do you think I'm going to trust some guy in a French lab to open my samples and say they're positive and announce that to the world and not give me the chance to defend myself? That's ludicrous. There is no way you can do that.
Lance Armstrong