Expectations can ruin your chances for happiness

Before I debuted, it was my goal to make my debut, and afterwards, I aimed at winning champion titles on television music shows, and…

— Hyuna

I understand it's promotion, but no one ever gave me a chance. No one ever thought I'd be the champ, and look where I'm…

— Stipe Miocic

I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.

— Moliere

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters…

— Bernie Mac

The happy medium is television. And if you find a good suitor, you can do it for years. With movies, you roll the dice.…

— Bruce Campbell

I get afraid of the dark if I'm in a great deal of dark, and I have to move around inside of that fear...…

— Emil Ferris

I have heard that if you pull a bent breath through the second hole of a harmonica tuned to the key of Georgia while…

— Buddy Wakefield

There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob…

— Tom Robbins

Pain held no terror for him. Pain was, if not friend, then family, something he had grown up with in his crèche, learning to…

— Paolo Bacigalupi

Love changes people, for better or for worse. You could look at it as a chance for you to change. The best kind of…

— Anonymous

“It's not who, it's when”

— Alejandro Taubas

Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

— Tom Stoppard

I thought my first few jobs would just be off, off, off, off, off broadway. And by chance and how the world works, I…

— Tommy Dorfman

If you’re worrying about the past, you’ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.

— Howard A. Tullman

To be successful, one must take chances.

— Willie Stargell