One Chance Quotes - Page 2

• You get one chance to make an impression and coasting through is a disservice.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Chance, Impression, Disservice

  "James Vincent McMorrow: 'I like my own musical company'". Interview with Tom Lamont, www.theguardian.com. January 4, 2014.

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• Aye, fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live…at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willing' to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take…OUR FREEDOM?!

  Mel Gibson

  Movie, Running, Fighting

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• Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Dale Carnegie's Scrapbook - a Treasury of the Wisdom of the Ages". Book edited by Dorothy Carnegie, 1983.

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• Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

  Lauren Kate

  Moving, Stories, Most Romantic

  Lauren Kate (2012). “Rapture: Book 4 of the Fallen Series”, p.421, Random House

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• Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.

  Robert Breault

  Distance, Opportunity, Next

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• Personally I give us . . . one chance of three.

  Sean Connery

  Giving, Three, Chance

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• #1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Chance, Sometimes

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• We have one life to live - and one chance to live it in the richest way possible.

  Judith Thurman

  Way, Chance, One Life To Live

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• Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!

  David Lynch

  Past, Fire, Two

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• A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle.

  William Faulkner

  Opportunity, Men, Evil

  William Faulkner (1985). “Novels, 1930-1935”, Library of America

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• When you consider what a chance women have to poison their husbands, it's a wonder there isn't more of it done

  Kin Hubbard

  Husband, Poison, Done

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• Trace the stars with your fingers in hopes you’ll connect the dots, but don’t get caught in the lines that aren’t really there ‘cause there is life in every breath you take and there is hope with every move you make, and every single mistake you think you’ve made should make you feel alive ‘cause you only have one chance to live in this spec we call life.

  John O'Callaghan

  Stars, Mistake, Moving

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• Only one chance one bullet in the gun. This is my life and I only got one, yeah. The safety’s off and I put on her. Oh stick ‘em up, stick ‘em up. Ready to shoot.

  Nicki Minaj

  Gun, Safety, Ems

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• One lot apiece, one chance to undo an error or secure a fate.

  Janet Morris

  Responsibility, Fate, Destiny

  Janet Morris (1989). “Tempus Unbound”, Pocket Books

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• As long as I've got one chance to beat you I'm going to take it.

  Leo Durocher

  Baseball, Long, Chance

  Leo Durocher, Ed Linn (2009). “Nice Guys Finish Last”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Chance, Cathy, Offers

  Virginia C. Andrews (1980). “Petals on the wind”, Pocket

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• They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!

  Mel Gibson

  Movie, Veterans Day, Freedom

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• No isolated experiment, however significant in itself, can suffice for the experimental demonstration of any natural phenomenon; for the "one chance in a million" will undoubtedly occur, with no less and no more than its appropriate frequency, however surprised we may be that it should occur to us.

  Ronald Fisher

  Science, May, Chance

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• God's Compassion - Eye gives us Not only one Chance But countless chances To change our wrong directions

  Sri Chinmoy

  Eye, Compassion, Giving

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• One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.

  Ted Ligety

  Change, Sports, Running

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• I think [Pablo Escobar] wasted an incredibly opportunity which was when he stayed at the prison he made, La Catedral. It was the one chance that the government and the people of Colombia gave him to confess his illicit activities and to remain in one place with very favorable conditions.

  Juan Pablo Escobar

  Thinking, Opportunity, Government

  Source: harvardpolitics.com

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• You only get one chance to make a good first impression, and yours may be in the hands of the receptionist.

  Harvey Mackay

  Hands, First Impression, May

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• My son Cary's generation likely won't know who my father was, but it's something nice for him that his grandfather was an icon. I had one chance to pass along that name.

  Jennifer Grant

  Father, Nice, Son

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We look for a horse with one chance in two of winning and which pays you three to one.

  Charlie Munger

  Horse, Winning, Two

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• You only get one chance of an England debut.

  Alan Shearer

  England, Chance, Debut

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