Top 1200 Chance Encounters Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

For more than 40 years now, relentlessly, I have been pursuing brief encounters with the great and the good.

Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding.

Look at each day as a chance to invest life into life. A chance to share your experience and deposit it into someone else's conscience. Each day is a chance to work miracles in the lives of others.

Taking delight in random encounters that come our way is a wonderful reminder that God is in control.

Ah, yes, my social life — a series of encounters where we briefly debate who is in the greater rush.

He sometimes behaves like water, flowing around the obstacles he encounters.

A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one-time huge, but solvable problem.

I like the distinction. It enables me to have more easygoing encounters in my private life.

'Alien' is a great movie. So is 'Close Encounters.' But I'm not the guy who goes out to the science-fiction festival. '2001's good.

I love to talk about people I've met being an entertainer. All my encounters in life - I roll it all into an hour and 30 minutes.

While I am writing about the details of my own intimate encounters and journeys in America and the Far East.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

Jamie glanced at her notes. "So let's be honest, Jacks, can we? What is the best part of being an Angel? Is it the lifestyle? Is it the parties? The fame? What's your favourite part?" "Just having this chance," he said after considering. "And what chance is that?" Jamie asked. Jacks's blue eyes twinkled. "The chance to be a hero.

The best way to win at a game of chance is to remove chance from the equation.

Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.

There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.

In your everyday life you always have opportunities for enlightenment. If you go to the rest room, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you cook, there is a chance to attain enlightenment. When you clean the floor, there is a chance to attain enlightenment.

I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.

If I get the chance to coach Netherlands, I would like to take that chance.

If Cole and I are together, we're noticeable. Fan encounters come with the job, and you can't shy away from them.

Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.

Anytime I get a chance to work with the guys from the WWE, it's a chance I jump at if I can.

My favorite sci-fi movie of all time is 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind.'

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

That's the harm of Close Encounters: that it convinces tens of millions that that's what just science fiction is.

I was raised in a heavily Catholic family. Early and consistent encounters with mysticism.

Above all, it's never blind chance: it's a chance that is always planned, but also always surprising. And I need it in order to carry on, in order to eradicate my mistakes, to destroy what I've worked out wrong, to introduce something different and disruptive. I'm often astonished to find how much better chance is than I am.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

Many Christians miss out on God encounters because they are satisfied with good theology.

There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting.

Random chance was not a sufficient explanation of the Universe---in fact, random chance was not sufficient to explain random chance; the pot could not hold itself.

The dream of doing what I do started with watching movies by Mr. Spielberg, like 'Close Encounters,' 'Poltergeist,' and 'E.T.' That was the beginning of my obsession.

I was never satisfied with casual encounters, I can't hide my need for two hearts that bleed with burning love.

There is always some criticism. Tell me one thing that Narendra Modi does and you don't criticise. If he gives a chance to newcomers, you say he forgot the old guard; if he gives a chance to an incumbent, you say Modi doesn't give a chance to young leaders.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

And still I wander, seeking compensation in unforseen encounters and unexpected sights, in sunsets, storms and passing fancies.

It is typical for implicit status hierarchies of influence and esteem to emerge in interpersonal encounters, especially those that are goal oriented.

What has happened by chance is often difficult to repeat when it is sought deliberately. Chance is a genius.

There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition, and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections.

Oh my God, no, no chance, no chance. That [kissing her co-stars]s not in my contract!

...The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.

For me, I have a chance to race in F1, a chance I did not think I would have.

Personally, I never had any negative encounters with the law growing up.

I think everybody encounters difficulty. It's just more pitched in some people.

A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

Years later, nothing makes me more grateful as a parent than my daughters' encounters with classroom wizards.

There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance.

I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.

... by chance you will say, but chance only favors the mind which is prepared.

The good news - and it is largely good news - is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Every morning we get a chance to be different. A chance to change. A chance to be better. Your past is your past. Leave it there. Get on with the future part, honey.

How come "fat chance" and "slim chance" mean the same thing?

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Whenever a man encounters a woman in a mood he doesn't understand, he wants to know if she's tired.

Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

The circumstances which a man encounters with suffering are the result of his own mental inharmony.

You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can’t see the truth.