Quotes of: Second-chances Keyword

The first and most important field of philosophy is the application of principles such as “Do not lie.” Next come the proofs, such as why we should not lie. The third field supports and articulates the proofs, by asking, for example, “How does ...

The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness

You can see the same immorality or amorality in the Christian view of guilt and punishment. There are only two texts, both of them extreme and mutually contradictory. The Old Testament injunction is the one to exact an eye for an eye and a tooth for ...

Letters to a Young Contrarian

In the spring of her twenty-second year, Sumire fell in love for the first time in her life. An intense love, a veritable tornado sweeping across the plains—flattening everything in its path, tossing things up in the air, ripping them to shreds, cr...

Sputnik Sweetheart

It's in the morning, for most of us. It's that time, those few seconds when we're coming out of sleep but we're not really awake yet. For those few seconds we're something more primitive than what we are about to become. We have just slept the sleep ...

Stargirl

the Democratic Party had failed (in 1983) 'to remember waht got us this far and how we got here -- moral indignation, decent instincts, a sense of shared sacrifice and mutual responsibility, and a set of national priorities that emphasized what we ha...

Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics

At one point in the story, following a brazen daytime bank robbery, Electro is shown escaping from the authorities by climbing up the side of a building, as easily as Spider-Man . . . we see one observer exclaim, "Look!! That strangely-garbed man is ...

The Physics of Superheroes

She never sent the castle to sleep”, said Granny, “that’s just and old wife’s tale. She just stirred up time a little. It’s not as hard as people think, everyone does it all the time. It’s like rubber, is time, you can stretch it to suit ...

Wyrd Sisters

A word of warning here. The events as you remember them will never be the same in your memory once you have turned them into a memoir. For years I have worried that if I turn all of my life into literature, I won't have any real life left - just stor...

Writing the Memoir: From Truth to Art, Second Edit

From my Facebook Page: "You spend the first 50 years acquiring and the second 50 years getting rid of

Children of Stone: Voices in Crystal

First do no harm. -Hippocrates Second, do some good. -Anne M. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D.

The Common Sense Guide to Dementia for Clinicians and Caregivers

n the face of a true friend a man sees as it were a second self......

Cicero De Amicitia (On Friendship) And Scipio's Dream

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Checker and the Derailleurs

For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.

Calling Romeo

Eye contact was a delicate matter. A quarter second of a shared glance was a violation of agreements that made the city operational.

Cosmopolis

I hated the place, Tommy. I hated every second of every day. And it was all … your … fault!

The Death Cure

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

Nobody should ever try to second-guess history; the facts are fantastic enough.

Education of a Wandering Man

The best time to plan a tree was twenty years ago; the second best time is now.

The Fugazi of Room 39

Days, weeks, months, years," said the boy. "Minutes and hours and seconds. I don't know about any of those things.

Frozen Fire

I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one, it got sick and died.

Four Day Planet

Is he following? Can you have a flaming gay moment or something and check?" "Why do I have to be the flaming gay one?

Forever in One Second