Quotes of: Second-chances Keyword

Relegating women to second-class citizenship was abolished when Jesus died on the cross.

Tony Campolo

Workers, comrades, and you, women of the people, let not this festival of May, the second during the war, pass without protest against the Imperialist Slaughter.

Karl Liebknecht

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.

Lester B. Pearson

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

Ruth Duccini

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

A. S. Byatt

I think you still love me,’ he says, ‘even though you don’t want to.’ I glare at him, fury battling my instincts. ‘Because that kind of love, Jessa,’ Kit continues, ‘doesn’t just disappear. It doesn’t just fade. I still love you. I�...

Come Back to Me

In friendship...we think we have chosen our peers. In reality a few years' difference in the dates of our births, a few more miles between certain houses, the choice of one university instead of another...the accident of a topic being raised or not r...

The Four Loves

All other trades are contained in that of war. Is that why war endures? No. It endures because young men love it and old men love it in them. Those that fought, those that did not. That's your notion. The judge smiled. Men are born for games. Nothing...

Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West

If they were going to be like that, then I just wished they hadn't actually been German. It was too easy. Too obvious. It was like coming across an Irishman who actually was stupid, a mother-in-law who actually was fat, or an American businessman who...

Last Chance to See

What is it which makes a man and a woman know that they, of all other men and women in the world, belong to each other? Is it no more than chance and meeting? no more than being alive together in the world at the same time? Is it only a curve of the ...

Portrait of Jennie

For those who seem to have difficulty moving forward: "Sometimes Destiny is calling but you refuse to give in to the signs because of past hurts and baggages. Sometimes the love you are searching for all this time is just right in front of you but yo...

Elizabeth E. Castillo

Philosophy, that leaned on Heaven before, Shrinks to her second cause, and is no more.

The Dunciad

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Down the River

Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Elizabeth I

Smile. it's the second best thing you can do with your lips.

Head Over Heels

Yeah, well,” Nico said, “not giving people a second thought…that can be dangerous.

The House of Hades

It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best.

The Art of War

A brick could be slid on a wood floor, like a rolling bowling ball, in an attempt to fill the seconds between swallows of beer. 

Blanket

a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.

Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Ukippers are the kinds of fools who haven't noticed they're sleep-walking towards fascism. Many UKIP candidates are of the age when their parents fought in the Second World War.

Robert Webb

Our second phase was to develop a school curriculum that teaches tolerance, respect for differences, conflict resolution, anger management, and other attributes of peace.

Eddie Bernice Johnson