- Nov 07, 2020
Chance Quotes
What opens up when you take one.
This set treats chance as both opportunity and loss, from skipping formal training to sidestep rejection to the freedom found in stepping over a line and taking a real risk. It connects to our Destiny quotes for readers drawn to that bigger-picture theme.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Diffuse
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I'm not going to avoid it on the chance that a small portion of the audience might take it the wrong way.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
A closing team is so important in the NBA. The last seven minutes is what you are always coaching to get to. Now you have your team set, you have the match-ups you want, you have your time-outs, your chance to finish the game, and that's my job, to get us to that position during the course of the game.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
We've got to get our fans back. We've got to start winning and get our fans excited about the 76ers again... We're selling hope. This is about hope. We have hope that we have a chance to be good.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favorite song to play is 'Smokin' by Boston. I actually had a chance to play that with the band Boston live.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.
- Footprints
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paula Deen is a human being. She deserves forgiveness and a chance at redemption as much as anyone else. America is about redemption.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my career, all my most important breaks have come from Edinburgh. Winning awards, being reviewed, bagging my BBCR4 series and the chance to tour has all come from Edinburgh, which begs the question, why the hell have I left it so long to come back?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I came out with sounds that didn't sound like the usual hip-hop beat. I took that chance because no one would identify with me if I sound like somebody who's already out.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Grow Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Not everybody has the chance to grow up on an island.
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- Nov 07, 2020