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" I always sort of thought, 'I'm probably going to get breast cancer. There's a really good chance.' "

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" We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. "

" Newspaper readership is declining like crazy. In fact, there's a good chance that nobody is reading my column. "

" I am not driven by any bitterness by what happened in Athens. I learnt a lot of lessons from it and probably came through it a stronger person in the end. There have been a lot of near misses, and that's taught me to keep persevering and that there is a chance it can come right. "

Paula Radcliffe

" The only way to break out is to gamble - take a chance with that first pick if you wanna dramatically improve your team. "

" It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties. "

Donna Lynne Champlin

" I think now that I'm in the autumn of my life, and I'm getting a chance of having an overview and looking at the shape of how things happen, when things happen, why things happen, I think it was fitting that I spent most of my early career doing mask work, because I just don't think I was that comfortable in my own skin. "

" If you go around being afraid, you're never going to enjoy life. You have only one chance, so you've got to have fun. "

" 'Eyes Wide Open' took shape from two real life events straight from my own past. One was the sad suicide of my young nephew, a troubled kid, who was found at the bottom of a landmark cliff in central California. The second was a chance encounter forty years ago with none other than, ahem, Charles Manson! "

" All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else. "

" To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions. "

" The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks. "

Mark Zuckerberg

" I like this job - most days I have a chance to make breakfast and take the kids to school or to read 'em a bedtime story. It's almost like a normal life. "

" You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done. "

" Housework can't kill you, but why take a chance? "

" Most child actors, once they hit 18, once they hit 21, that's it. Even teenage kids often don't make the transition. "

" When I see myself on film it makes me smile, I mean making a good living doing what I enjoy is soo much fun. I just hope that everyone has the chance to enjoy life like I do. "

Adrienne Barbeau

" One of the reasons you take a role is because it's something you always wanted to do, from going to the movies as a kid. I always wanted to do a 1950s movie, for example. And I got a chance to be in 'Peggy Sue Got Married.' I would have taken only one line of dialogue to be in that. "

Catherine Hicks

" Discipline is what makes a writer. If writing was like lifting weights, then I'd look like Mr. Universe. Write every day. Give the Muse a chance to get to know you. "

" Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent. "

Laurence J. Peter

" It is true that the Puritans banned all recreation on Sundays and all games of chance, gambling, bear baiting, horse racing, and bowling in or around taverns at all times. They did so, not because they were opposed to fun, but because they judged these activities to be inherently harmful or immoral. "

" Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. That's half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language. "

" In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud: Under the bludgeoning of chance my head is bloody, but unbowed. "

William Ernest Henley

" I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" The more that everyone has access to the same educational opportunities, the more society will tend to accept some receiving disproportionate rewards. After all, they themselves have a chance to be winners. "

" Be strong and follow your own convictions. You can't assume there is a lot of time to do what you like. This is what David Bowie is afraid of: that he will die before he gets a chance to make a real strong contribution. "

" If you ever really want to get away from it all and see something that you have never seen, and have an excellent chance of seeing something no one has ever seen, get in a sub. You climb in, seal the hatch, turn on a little oxygen, turn on the scrubber, which removes the CO2 in the air you breathe, and they chuck you overboard. Down you go. "

" All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride. "

W. Edwards Deming

" What I felt was, if you spend your life just writing fiction, you are going to falsify your material. And the fictional form was going to force you to do things with the material, to dramatize it in a certain way. I thought nonfiction gave one a chance to explore the world, the other world, the world that one didn't know fully. "

" We try to create a situation where we're the casino. It's like how an actuary would set insurance rates. Predictability, predictability, predictability. What's the path to least risk? What's the greater chance of getting some return on this asset? "

" Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder. "