Famous Quotes & Sayings

Maurice Maeterlinck

Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

Patina Miller

It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'

Mikhail Gorbachev

I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.

Mario Andretti

If the Indy Racing League didn't have the Indianapolis 500, do you think it would have lasted more than six months? No chance.

The only chance we had to see them was (Wednesday). They didn't shoot that well then. We really didn't expect them to shoot that well from the outside. But they did.

David Sanborn

When you see the same familiar faces, it's nice when you get a chance to play with the same musicians. You start to develop this shorthand so everybody knows where you're at and where you're going, but then again, there are always surprises. But the more people are comfortable with the material, the more free you can be with the music.

With everything that's gone on, I'm just glad to have a chance to get it together,

With only seven weeks left until the Hong Kong ministerial conference in December, we have just about run out of time, ... If Hong Kong fails there is little chance of completing negotiations in 2006, putting the future of multilateral trade reform at serious risk for the short term.

Without new ways of managing growth, New Jersey stands no chance of reaching genuine prosperity.

Greg Craig

Without fair notice of what these charges are, we will have no fair chance of representing our client, the president of the United States, adequately,

We have more depth up front than we've had in a while. I think we have the chance for a lot of guys to be in double-digits for putting pucks in the net.

We have many goals for the 2006 season. This includes retaining the driver's, team's and manufacturer's titles. However, we have one major trophy to get back and that's Bathurst. With guys like Craig in our stable, I feel that we have a great chance of winning at Mount Panorama.

Bryan Cupito

When we've got a team down like that, obviously you have to win the game. We had a chance to do that early and we didn't do it. The second half, we could have pulled away a little more, but we didn't. They started scoring and at the end, scored when they needed to.

We will launch in North America, Europe and Japan in the same holiday season. There will probably be a week or 10 days in between the different territories, just to give us a chance to manage the logistics,

Ben Howland

We've played some very good teams this year. And I'm very pleased with how our team has responded to all the adversity. If we get everybody healthy, I think we have a chance to be an outstanding team.

We've played five games and we've had chances to win all five. I'm proud of the club. We did everything we could to get back in it tonight.

We've played at other places at night. I honestly play better at night. Having night games gives us a chance to go home and rest after school.

We've not had a great deal of response right now, mainly because they're still in the throes of it. They haven't had time to stop. I think it's going to come back later when they have a chance to step back.

We wanted to give people a chance to see the country with their own eyes,

Rubin Carter

We wanted to give people a chance to come out and prove that they can come from high school and play at this level.

We had some really tough draws, but sometimes when you play head-on it helps you. You get a chance to knock them off.

Unfortunately for Speaker Hastert and his special-interest cronies, ... one photo-op press conference isn't going to change the fact that he has been pushing the very legislation that has led to record profits for the oil industry every chance he gets.

Ryan Bradley

Two little guys getting a chance to be on the big stage.

When seniors stick around and they don't drop by their freshman year, you have the chance to have a pretty good team.

When Microsoft said last week that it would release seven patches, people were holding their breath. You had to figure with that many, the chances were great that there would be a very dangerous vulnerability. But after looking at these, I think we can let out a sigh of relief.

Every worker has a chance to find a better-paying job, but they've got to start someplace, and that's what we use the minimum wage for.

Brodie Croyle

Everywhere you think you're going, there's probably a 102 percent chance you're not going there. So you try not to think about it too much.

Mithun Chakraborty

Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances.

Explain this game to me. Last night we went 2-for-24 from the 3 and (Friday) we made 11 threes. We make a few of those (against Franklin) and we have a chance to win the game.

There are a lot of guys who we've signed but haven't had a chance to see up in Pittsburgh yet. They're going to get their opportunities.

James Harden

There are a lot of guys who play in the NBA. There aren't a lot of guys who have a chance to win a gold medal, too.

Dinah Shore

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.

Dick Costolo

When you're doing what you love to do, you become resilient. You create a habit of taking chances on yourself. If you do what's expected of you, and things go poorly, you will look to external sources for what to do next, because that will be your habit. You will be standing there frozen. If you are just filling a role, you will be blindsided.