Quotes of: Second-chances Keyword

Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it.

Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series

She had other friends--friends that wouldn't leave her. She had the cats.

The Second Spy

...her wings are cut and then she is blamed for not knowing how to fly.

The Second Sex

People can become addicted to fame, money, and attention as deeply as they become addicted to drugs.

Think a Second Time

I never could stand losing. Second place didn't interest me. I had a fire in my belly.

Ty Cobb

There is the will of the people; there is the will of the mind! Always be at the side of the second one! The first one contains mostly stupidity; the second one contains always intelligence.

Mehmet Murat ildan

The rise of the West is, quite simply, the pre-eminent historical phenomenon of the second half of the second millennium after Christ.

Niall Ferguson

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.

Kirk Douglas

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Albert Einstein

I came second in a 1,500-metre running race at school. I knew I couldn't have come first, so second was my version of first.

Chet Faker

One thing I learnt early on my career is that personal gratification takes second place.

Brian O'Driscoll

There was a gap of seven years between the first and second Dracula movies. In the second one as everybody knows, I didn't speak, because I said I couldn't say the lines.

Christopher Lee

I have a second bedroom I don't use. I'm going to start the Second Bedroom Film Festival. You're all invited.

Vincent Schiavelli

Experience had quickly taught her that she could not survive the storms without the anchor of the constraining love of Christ and what she called the "Rock-counsciousness" of the promise given her, "He goeth before.

A Chance to Die: The Life and Legacy of Amy Carmichael

Christ, they’d be getting a cat next. He mentally recoiled from the idea: the day they did that, he’d cut off his dick and call himself a lesbian.

Four Chances: A Short Story Quartet

If you leave your life to chance, you can't make a change. Chance may favour a prepared mind, but it doesn't create change! Will does so.

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Don’t be afraid to take a chance. The worst that can happen is that you don’t succeed … this time.

The Happiness Code: Ten keys to being the best you can be

I don't know what we're doing here – you and me … I don't know what we are or what we can be, but this doesn't have to be about that. This can just be about … a chance. Taking a chance.

Broken Lights

Scientists have calculated that the chances of something so patently absurd actually existing are millions to one. But magicians have calculated that million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.

Mort

Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. I learned this first through agriculture, because all farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest.

Howard Graham Buffett

I've always relied a lot on landscape in my books, the atmosphere of a particular place, as well as a fair amount of external action. While writing 'Chance,' it occurred to me that this is the most internal book I've ever written. So much of the acti...

Kem Nunn