No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line.

I think I would do a much better job if I had a chance to do things that were edgier than I get to do in comedies.

With "Let's Dance," there was actually a chance that I was actually going to be able to keep the money I had made.

I have been careless, and so have been thwarted by luck and chance, those wreckers of all but the best laid plans.

If you fight with all your might, there is a chance of life; where as death is certain if you cling to your corner

It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region are making by giving a chance to women.

We can grow economically and restore America's leadership in the world, so that everybody has a chance to rise up.

‎Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?

I'd like to see as many sports as I can because I have never had the chance to enjoy the other sports in the past.

The twin gods, Necessity and Chance, walked among the stars. What needed to be, was; what might be, sometimes was.

There is always a chance that he who sets himself up as his brother's keeper will end up by being his jail-keeper.

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, 'Here's my chance to grow.'

We'd never have got a chance to go outside and look at the earth if it hadn't been for space exploration and NASA.

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

In this world of chance and change and mutability, the fulfillment of any resolve depends on the will of the Lord.

I know content-wise I leave nothing to chance. I have no anxiety about what I'm going to do once I'm out on stage.

...he who remains passive when over-whelmed with grief loses his best chance of recovering his elasticity of mind.

Speech is the birthright of every child. It is the deaf child's one fair chance to keep in touch with his fellows.

Chance is an element of life. What I try to do is study what I call the mechanics of reality as carefully as I can.

Grasp it all, don't be afraid, enjoy the bits you can and tell your family you love them while you have the chance.

If I think about my life, I'm not reluctant about taking chances. I'm definitely not reluctant about relationships.

When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.

As far as men go, they never gave me a chance to be me; they were always scared that somebody was going to take me.

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, ’68, ’70, would you do things differently?

Seek instant gratification - or the elusive promise of it - and chances are you'll find a crowd there ahead of you.

Whenever I have a chance to wake up and be alive, I always thank God for that, and for me, all the rest is a bonus.

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.

I am a firm believer that you can make a mistake but that shouldn't define you. Everybody deserves a second chance.

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.

Do not be afraid to take a chance on peace, to teach peace, to live peace...Peace will be the last word of history.

The coaches are working with me every day. And if you feel like the coach is behind you, you'll take some chances.?

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.

I've never stayed awake at night over a chance I took that failed, but I've stayed awake over chances I didn't take.

Only a fool would refuse to enter a fool's paradise when that's the only paradise he'll ever have a chance to enter.

It is really weird, things have just been crazy. Everything has happened so quickly I haven't had a chance to think.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.

We are taking a greater chance of having another crash at a time when the world is less capable of bearing the cost.

I am grateful I got the chance to meet Stevie Wonder! He's like royalty to me and is one of my biggest inspirations.

I'm kind of a nerd, so whenever I get a chance to talk to an artist I really admire, I tend to gravitate to process.

It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back

I thought it was too wacky for the general public. On his original opinion of his movie's chances for success, 1997.

Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.

If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.

Throughout life, one does not miss any chance to hold onto the things that are really precious, if one is truly wise.

To me, the stand up part in my life is great. I know I can do that. When I get an acting chance, I'm really thrilled.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

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