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Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

β€” Imran Khan
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My son likes to go see mines and electric plants, or the Large Hadron Collider, and we've had a chance to see a lot of interesting stuff.

β€” Bill Gates
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I continue to work on plays, but I've always felt that you could put a note in a bottle and send it offshore, and you'd have as much chance communicating with people.

β€” Lewis Black
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Although idea and form are ultimately paramount in my work, so too are chance, accident, and rawness.

β€” Martin Puryear
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It's clear that anyone who plays in Belgium or another league with less quality still has a chance of making the Champions League or the Europa League.

β€” Andrea Pirlo
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If proud Americans can be who they are and boldly stand at the altar with who they love then surely, surely we can give everyone in this country a fair chance at that great American Dream.

β€” Michelle Obama
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I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

β€” Virginia Gildersleeve
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My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

β€” Denis Leary
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I figured that pitchers had a better chance of getting drafted than fielders, so I decided I should be a pitcher. But I never expected to be picked in the first round. I wasn't even sure I'd get picked at all.

β€” Dwight Gooden
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If what I do prove well, it won't advance. They'll say it's stolen, or else it was by chance.

β€” Anne Bradstreet
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No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

β€” Anatole France
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I have my warts. I sometimes say things that get me in trouble. In other words, I lead with my heart and not my head. That's the only chance we have against George Bush.

β€” Howard Dean
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That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business.

β€” Donald O'Connor
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I loved 'Doomsday' because I got a chance to do a bit of action, a bit of running and jumping, kicking the bad guys around.

β€” Adrian Lester
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Chance explorations on search engines do not 'accidentally' lead users to extremist websites.

β€” Maajid Nawaz
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There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.

β€” John Elway
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I liked Trump's honesty because it was different and had a chance to change the business of politics. What I didn't realize he was missing at the time was a complete and utter lack of preparation, knowledge, and common sense.

β€” Mark Cuban
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I have not had the chance to go out there and do myself justice in an Olympic marathon yet. I have not been able to get to an Olympic marathon injury-free yet.

β€” Paula Radcliffe
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I feel more like I'm a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.

β€” Alicia Keys
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I want to leave a legacy behind. I want the chance to measure myself against the top guys and to have them bring out that champion within me in the Octagon.

β€” Tyron Woodley
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Curating our data is valuable. Like 23andMe - while selling us the chance to know whether we're Vikings or whatever, they're amassing these huge DNA databases that are unimaginably valuable. Get people to pay you to add their DNA to this database. Genius!

β€” Hannah Fry
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But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.

β€” Gordon Parks
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The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.

β€” Peter De Vries
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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

β€” Marya Mannes
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.

β€” Max Eastman
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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.

β€” Amanda Marshall
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When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

β€” Don Larsen
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That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.

β€” Angela Ruggiero
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

β€” S. I. Hayakawa
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As long as I've got a chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

β€” Leo Durocher
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It is time that we take control and find a way to curtail the explosive costs of health care. Small businesses deserve a chance to channel these funds toward other needs, such as expanding and creating more jobs for the economy.

β€” Christopher Bond
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If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

β€” Carl Levin
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I was resolved to sustain and preserve in my college the bite of the mind, the chance to stand face to face with truth, the good life lived in a small, various, highly articulate and democratic society.

β€” Virginia Gildersleeve
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When it was over, I was so happy, I felt like crying. I wanted to win this one for Casey. After what I did in Brooklyn, he could have forgotten about me and who would blame him? But he gave me another chance and I'm grateful.

β€” Don Larsen
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It is the individual who knows how little they know about themselves who stands the most reasonable chance of finding out something about themselves before they die.

β€” S. I. Hayakawa
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He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

β€” Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax
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The act of voting by ordinary Iraqis in the face of extreme danger confirms President Bush's belief that people around the globe, when given a chance, will choose liberty and democracy over enslavement and tyranny.

β€” John Ensign
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Democracy still has a real hope and chance in Iraq, and true freedom in this country would be the greatest testament to those who gave their lives for it.

β€” Mary Landrieu
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My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

β€” Bob Schieffer
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Chance is a name for our ignorance.

β€” Leslie Stephen
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I'd love to be a saxophonist. I don't know why, but I pretend I'm the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly.

β€” Richard Price
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There has been a huge advance in technology, which has improved the safety of the cars incredibly, but there are still some heavy crash impacts and in certain circumstances there is still the chance of fire today.

β€” Jackie Stewart
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What is overriding that and most important is that readers generally are interested in a good character. They might be more comfortable with Harry because they think they know him, but they always seem willing to give somebody new a chance.

β€” Michael Connelly
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.

β€” Patricia Velasquez
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It was a fun film. I had a great time doing it. I was looking for a role just like that for my first movie role. I didn't want to have a starring role, because I wanted a chance to learn. I didn't want the whole thing riding on me.

β€” Luke Perry
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It's fun. I sit down every day and tell stories. Some folk would kill to get that chance.

β€” Bernard Cornwell
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This is a chance for me to listen and learn. There's no more important and rewarding part of my job.

β€” Bill Delahunt
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For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves.

β€” Marya Mannes
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If 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.

β€” Bill Cosby
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If I stay healthy, I have a chance to collect 3,000 hits and 1,000 errors.

β€” George Brett
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