#chance

I didn't do a movie until I was almost 30. I'm grateful for that because it gave me a chance to be an adult in the world and do work in the regional theater that very few people cared about. I loved it and I wanted to do that stuff. ↗

— Annette Bening

#adult #almost #because #cared #chance

Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#chance #comfortable #conviction #enjoy #game

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace. ↗

— Ernie Banks

#anyplace #be happy #chances #generate #happy

It's important to give it all you have while you have the chance. ↗

— Shania Twain

#give #important #while #you

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth. ↗

— Mary McLeod Bethune

#beat #boy #chance #drums #girl

What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light. ↗

— Julia Green

#hope #life #love #second-chances #forgiveness

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#chance #gives #glad #life #look

It was then that I realized I wasn't afraid to lose my life; I was afraid to lose the life I could've lived. ↗

— Amanda Nuri

#life #life-and-death #second-chances #death

No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations. ↗

— Marek Belka

#anything #becomes #believe #chancellor #change

I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive. ↗

— Theodore Bikel

#chance #determined #fighting #give #i