Chance

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

The ego certainly is the biggest obstacle as an artist or performer, so any chance you get to destroy that is really healthy.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.

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

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

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

We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.

The 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.

If no one ever took risks, Michaelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

If you like the stuff I do, my chances of liking you go up.

But we also believe in taking risks, because that's how you move things along.

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.