Nine out of 10 times these guys will hit it-they'll be on something incredibly funny, but one out of 10, two out of 10, they'll fall flat on their faces. That's what makes them great actors: they take those chances, they don't play it safe.
Peter Farrelly

Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
Katherine Anne Porter

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.
Walter Anderson

Over the years, I've had hundreds of shots blocked. You've got to go in and take chances.
John Havlicek

People take chances every now and then, and you don't want to disappoint them.
Jason Statham

Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.
Jacques Chirac

Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores which in turn increase chances of higher education and good jobs in the future.
Thad Cochran

So that's my philosophy: If you believe in yourself, the chances and the opportunities will come around.
Mindy Cohn

Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can't win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
Patricia Ireland

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.
Mary Tyler Moore

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
Orlando A. Battista

That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
Suzanne Farrell

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.
Guy Lafleur

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.
Terri Clark

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.
Alvin Lee

The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all the chances on our side.
Christo

The first point is always to believe in it when you go on court and then you have the chances to win.
Martina Hingis

The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
Paula Cole

The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
Patrick Warburton

The man who didn't want his wife to work has been succeeded by the man who asks about her chances of getting a raise.
Earl Wilson