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One Chance Quotes

Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.
- Virginia C Andrews

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.
- Ann Brashares

The darkness is calling. A little danger, a little risk. Feel your heart race. Listen to it. That's the sound of being alive. It's your time, Nick. Your one chance to have fun before it's all stolen by them, the adults, with their cruelty and endless rules, their can't-do-this, and can't-do-that's, their have-tos, and better-dos, their little boxes and cages all designed to break your spirit, to kill your magic.
- Brom

#1425: When you really like someone, tell them. Sometimes you only get one chance.
- H Jackson Brown Jr

One life, One love, One breath, One people, One chance to make a difference. If we are not one in LIFE we surely will be one on DEATH.
- Tonny K Brown

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get
- Anne Tyler

One chance, One life. Make it or screw it up, it's your choice. Don't wait to long or your time will be up.
- Stephen Burt

...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.
- Angela Carter

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.
- Jimmy Carter

That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!
- Terry Pratchett

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one.
But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
- Terry Pratchett

Life is a trick, and you get one chance to learn it.
- Terry Pratchett

Million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
- Terry Pratchett

This was just one night, one chance to vary and see where it took me. The fireflies were probably already out: maybe it wasn't just a season or a time but a whole world I'd forgotten. I'd never know until I stepped out into it. So I did.
- Sarah Dessen

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

No matter how hard life gets, we only get one chance, which is why we owe it to ourselves to make the best of it, for as long as we have.
- Matthew Gallaway

But nothing was a important as escaping Evernight or the 'destiny' my parents and teachers had decided for me. I had only one chance to be free and to be with the guy I loved. I intended to take it.

- Claudia Gray

Room of Requirement, of course! Surpassed itself, hasn't it? the Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout: I managed to get through the door and this is what I found! Well, it wasn't exactly like this when I arrived, it was a load smaller, there was only one hammock and just Gryffindor hangings. But it's expanded as more and more of the D.A. have arrived.
- J K Rowling

What a gulf between impression and expression! That's our ironic fateto have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reversetouch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.
- Aldous Huxley

Agatha and I rode off towards the sunset together. On a unicycle. Two bodies, one wheel, one seat, one love. And tomorrow Agatha's clone and I will ride off towards the sunrise together. On a bicycle. Two bodies, two wheels, one seat, two loves, one chance to make our lives really ours, despite being a derivative.
- Jarod Kintz

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

Theatre is more exciting in the sense that you can actually see the audience in the eye. You know there are no takes and retakes. You have one chance to do your job... and you better do it well!
- Christine Lahti

This is your one chance. Tell me where the key is."
"Okay."
Serpine raised an eyebrow. "Really?"
"No, only joking. Do your worst.
- Derek Landy

Cash smiles at them and then turns to face me, leaning forward a little on the bar. His eyes meet mine and one brow rises in that holy mother of hell-sexy way, then he mutters, "You've got one chance to make my mouth water."
I suck in a breath. And chills break out down my arms.
Damn, he's good!
- M Leighton

His eyes meet mine and one brow rises in that holy mother of hell-sexy way, then he mutters, You've got one chance to make my mouth water.
- M Leighton

Acting is easier than skating in a way and harder in other aspects. In skating, you get one chance, and with acting you get to do it over and over.
- Tara Lipinski

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

One chance is all you need.
- Jesse Owens

We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
- Patrick Stewart

Despite his crimped shirts and flowing mane (or perhaps because of them) I had seen no evidence as yet that Nathaniel even knew what a girl was. If he'd ever met one, chances are they'd both have run screaming in opposite directions.
- Jonathan Stroud

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.
- Johnny Vegas

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