Quotes of: Second-chances Keyword

In order to be a writer, "Maugham continues: "one must take chances and not be afraid to look foolish. I wrote The Razor's Edge while wearing a paper hat….

Side Effects

Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.

Shadowspell

Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person.

Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.

Moral Clarity: A Guide for Grown-up Idealists

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

Margarettown

[C]hildren were a much more difficult audience than adults because no on had yet had a chance to teach them that it was better to be polite than honest.

Masques

(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.

Maskerade

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

The Notebooks of Paul Brunton

What if I just want to die?" "Then I will be sad and disappointed that you cheated yourself out of your chance at existence. Not all of us have that opportunity, you know, to choose life.

Never Eighteen

Later it would occur to him that a new life - to be a new man - would require him to take chances, to act on whim

New Man, New Troubles

I like the way he says we and am amazed, as I often am by language as power, at the way a simple pronoun can upend a relationship.

Last Last Chance

A profound love between two people involves, after all, the power and chance of doing profound hurt.

The Left Hand of Darkness

At this moment, all I'm thinking about is what I'd give up for the chance to kiss her or to run my fingers through her dark hair.

Legend

Of Equality--as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself--as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Leaves of Grass

Thought Of equality- as if it harm'd me, giving others the same chances and rights as myself- as if it were not indispensable to my own rights that others possess the same.

Leaves of Grass

Revenge did that to a person; it caused even the insecure and the meek to take foolhardy chances. After a while it became a way of life; the risks felt as natural as drawing a breath.

Local Girls

If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know yourself, you will bury your meals and complain of poverty!

Leaders' Watchwords

She had the hard, half-apathetic expression of one who deems anything possible at the hands of time and chance, except perhaps fair play

The Mayor of Casterbridge

Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain or fine weather, though they would consider it ridiculous to ask for an eclipse by prayer?

Science and Method

Life provides chances to open your heart all the time.

The Spiritual Girl's Guide to Dating: Your Enlightened Path to Love, Sex, & Soul Mates

You understand the logic behind the illogical, Alyssa. It's in your nature to find tranquility amid the madness. And that's what we're doing here. We are giving our food a fighting chance.

Splintered