Quotes of: Chances Keyword

Only the broken heart has the ghost of a chance to grieve, to forgive, to long, to transform." Christina Baldwin, author of Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, 1990. Used with author's permission

Ariel's Cottage

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

Angel Falls

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

The Age of Innocence

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rob ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectations.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rod ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectations.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

By our ideas on how others 'ought to be' we rod ourselves of the chance to know them for who they already are. - See beyond the limits of your expectation.

Awakened Living: A Practical Guide to the Spiritual Life

A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless'...

Hitch-22: A Memoir

I see a light in the kitchen. Let us not deprive Molly any longer of the chance to deplore how thin you are.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

I, too, was carrying around my own fate. All the things I couldn't know sat somewhere inside, embroidered into me-maybe not quite fixed to the point of inevitability but waiting, in any event, for a chance to unspool.

A House in the Sky

You cannot be chosen as a winner without contest. Winners have many families but nobody wants to associate with a loser. I will prepare myself and one day my chance will come.

The Hour of Temptation

Having recovered from an inexplicable moment of weakness Claire was on the defensive, ready to bite. I had the impression that she was now looking for a chance to demonstrate her strength, or her hard-heartedness.

The Image/The Whip Angels

Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

The Ice Balloon: S. A. Andrée and the Heroic Age of Arctic Exploration

No one messes me around, I don't give second chances and I never waste tears over people who aren't worth it. I save them for the people who are.

Just Say Yes

The man armed with knowledge has a better chance of survival than the man who is simply the fittest. Knowledge is the true strength. Muscle is where the myth is.

Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned.

The Return of the King

It might have been my human side clamoring for blood, or my alien side looking for a chance to exercise strategic dominance over a lesser life form. Either way, I was going to win.

The Rules

She had known for a while that Chance would be her first. She hadn’t planned it would be tonight. But, it felt right, Fourth of July, fireworks, and her first time.

Roping Love

While persistence offers no guarantees, it does give 'luck' a chance to operate.

The Road to Middle-Earth: How J.R.R. Tolkien Created A New Mythology

But to me it sounded like someone throwing a roll of paper towels and a can of frosting into an oven and saying, "You know, I think there's a good chance of this turning into a cake.

Rainshadow Road

I have been… To every depth of my heart To every height of my mind To every extent of my world I see only one name It’s yours…

Soulmates, By Chance

Goddamnit, in your Love Fever I am suffering from Heart Tumor You must be adept …you Pretty Charmer I am falling for you…in this Indian Summer

Soulmates, By Chance