Everything Quotes

If you wish in this world to advance your merits you're bound to enhance; You must stir it and stump it, and blow your own trumpet, Or, trust me, you haven't a chance.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

I am a sleepy fellow. I will take a nice long nap the first chance I get.

Across our country, social enterprise partnerships between the public and private sectors are providing millions of Americans - young and old - a second chance.

I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.

What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

In life, you always have a second chance.

In Kenya you've got the great birds and monkeys leaping through the trees overhead. It's a chance to remember what the world is really like.

He that leaveth nothing to chance will do few things ill, but he will do very few things.

Trouble is part of your life - if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.

When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.

Easter is very important to me, it's a second chance.

I think what's different about working on stage is that you have another chance to portray it again. If you don't get something right on film, you can do another take, but on stage, once it's done, it's done. You can't go back.

I always leave room for serendipity and chance.

It's not every day in your life that you're offered a second chance and you've got to take it.

I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.

You can lay in bed and think you don't stand a chance, that's what all of us thought, and here we are. We ended up doing all right.

I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

It's okay to work for someone else; not everyone is cut out to own a business, and even so, working for someone else is a chance to learn how to both be an employee and an employer.

I regret nothing. Even if I had a second chance at life, it would be the exact same.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one's temper and disturb one's quiet.

I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment.

Neither can men, by the same principles, be considered as lands, goods, or houses, among possessions. It is necessary that all property should be inferiour to its possessor. But how does the slave differ from his master, but by chance?

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

If your parents didn't have any children, there's a good chance that you won't have any.

From those to whom much is given, much is expected. I have been given much - the love of my family, the faith and trust of the people of New York, and the chance to lead this state. I am deeply sorry that I did not live up to what was expected of me.

You got to make the most of your second life. I was born Nayvadius, but now I'm Future. Should I dwell on what Nayvadius was supposed to be? I get a chance to experience life as something else. I wasn't supposed to be like this.

You might get run over; you might get hit by lightning. I mean, who knows? Each day, there is a chance you might die. And there's nothing wrong with that. Every living being on Earth is facing that same existential rift.

Nothing can really prepare you for when you get in the Formula One car. Knowing that you're driving a multimillion-dollar car, and if you crash it it's going to cost a lot of money, and they might not give you another chance, is scary.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Now we Democrats believe that America is still the country of fair play, that we can come out of a small town or a poor neighborhood and have the same chance as anyone else, and it doesn't matter whether we are black or Hispanic, or disabled or women.

I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

Every human heart cries and yearns for the same thing: a chance to fulfill his or her own dreams and desires. Even the poorest man has a dream.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

My recommendation is to try and do the best you can in go-karting to be spotted by a big name like Red Bull or Ferrari. And like that you have a chance. If not, nowadays it's very difficult. It's always been, but these days, even more.

Everybody should have an equal chance - but they shouldn't have a flying start.

Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column.

In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed.

Knowledge doesn't really form part of human nature. Conflict, combat, the outcome of the combat, and, consequently, risk and chance are what gives rise to knowledge. Knowledge is not instinctive; it is counter instinctive, just as it is not natural but counter natural.

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.

The more times you go after it the more times you'll get the ball. So every chance I get I try to chase down the rebound.