Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chuck Todd

Forget the historic nature of his election having to do with skin color - Obama has an opportunity offered to few presidents: the chance to set the course of the nation for decades, if not generations, to come. Who knows: perhaps in the near future, our grandchildren will spend money with Obama's face on it.

E. F. L. Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax

He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.

Carine Roitfeld

When in doubt, wear a suit. Look at male politicians: you see them in a suit, and they look fine. But if you see a picture of them on the weekend or on vacation, there's a good chance they look terrible and unstylish.

Imran Khan

Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.

One chance can make the rest of your career.

You don't get a chance to buy a company like NBCUniversal unless it's not doing well.

Nick Earls

E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing.

We did the job just right. We gave the offense a chance to come back and they did. When the team thing works like that, it's a great feeling.

Kyle Boller

We did some good things, but we didn't give ourselves a chance because too many times we faced third (down)-and-forever. You can't keep getting yourself in those long-yardage situations.

Ron Hill

We don't have a lot of good news coming in. We had tremendous earnings in the first quarter. Now we've got this hiatus until we see what the second quarter really does. That could give you a chance to slow down a little bit.

We didn't reach our ultimate goal. But we've got a chance to be a 10-6 team, then get the troops together, regroup and go back to the drawing board.

Chris Bosh

We didn't quite find that killer instinct. We gave ourselves a chance late and we played smart, just some little things cost us this one.

Bob Hill

We didn't quit and fought back. We put ourselves into a position where, if we make a shot here or there, we have a chance to win.

We didn't play well. Don't get me wrong. But this was a much easier game for me tonight than the last two. We created some things. We had some good chances on the power play.

We didn't play (Tuesday night). We just kind of went through the motions. We could've had a chance to make the playoffs, but this team was too strong.

We are healthy and have 11 chances to score. We are still kind of young.

Lyle Lovett

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.

P. J. O'Rourke

Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.

Dax Shepard

You only get one chance at your life so why not jump cars?

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

Alan Ladd

Not every father gets a chance to start his son off in his own footsteps.

Agnes Obel

When I started working on my own music, I didn't have the chance to record in a big music studio, so I had to record everything myself.

Mats Sundin

We're not generating enough chances to score goals but I couldn't tell you why.

We still have a long way to go, but we got a chance in the playoffs. We had a horrible season last year, so we've kind of turned it around.

Scott Skiles

We still have a chance to move up and finish .500. We're going to play to win.

Darren Sharper

We still have a chance to improve on that. Right now, we are not performing up to our standard.

We still have a chance to hang a banner. The Big Ten regular season is over with and it really sucks that we can't do anything about it. From here on out, everyone is zero and zero.

We still have a chance for a .500 season. That says volumes about our program.

We still have a chance at a lot of things, a lot of our goals. We just have to keep fighting. The way the Big Ten is now, everybody is on an equal playing field.

Chris Bosh

We still had our chance to win the game. We just missed open shots down the stretch. That happens. But with experience comes wisdom. If we keep being in situations like this, eventually we'll learn to get better.

We still had a good chance there at the end to win, and if we would have had one more second we might have won.

We still had a chance to tie the game at the line, trailing by two with 4.2 seconds left, but Robert missed his first free throw, then the second on purpose, but we couldn't get the rebound.

Carmelo Anthony

We still got a great chance to make this road trip real special. Finish a road trip like this 5-2 is a real good road trip for us.