THIS EDITION: chance
Quoted In The Grove:
If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
~Jim Rohn
Second chances do come your way. Like trains, they arrive and depart regularly. Recognizing the ones that matter is the trick.
~Jill A Davis
For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
~Mignon McLaughlin
EndQuote:
From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.
~Christopher Morley
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Next Exercise Prompt: nest
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Waiting for the fish to bite
or waiting for wind to fly a kite
or waiting around for Friday night
or waiting, perhaps, for their Uncle Jake
or a pot to boil, or a Better Break
or a string of pearls, or a pair of pants
or a wig with curls, or Another Chance.
Everyone is just waiting…
~Dr. Seuss
If you spend your life waiting for your chance, you are spending your chance waiting.
~Robert Brault
It is safer to accept any chance that offers itself, and extemporize a procedure to fit it, than to get a good plan matured, and wait for a chance of using it.
~Thomas Hardy
A simple definition of life: The chance you’ve been waiting for.
~Robert Brault
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It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
~Richard Paul Evans
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
~Desmond Tutu
I will forever believe in second chances and forgiveness, because if it weren’t for those two things I would and should be dead.
~Dedrick D L Pitter
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There is no going back in life, no return, no second chance. I cannot call back the spoken word or the accomplished deed.
~Daphne du Maurier
You don’t get second chances in the real world.
~Gail Simmons
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
~Carlos Ruiz Zafn
The thing about second chances is we always walk into them assuming we’ll feel better, when nine times out of ten things get worse before they ever get better.
~Rachel Van Dyken
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The wonderful thing about second chances is that they exist.
~Felice Stevens
Miracles were just second chances if you really thought about it — second chances when all hope was lost.
~Kaya Mclaren
Every second chance I have witnessed or experienced is a momentary miracle… Choosing to be open to as many second chances as your heart can bear changes everything.
~Holly Elissa Bruno
But second chances aren’t forever. Even miracles have an expiration date.
~Robyn Schneider
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Posted From The Grove
Anywhere, anytime ordinary people are given the chance to choose, the choice is the same: freedom, not tyranny; democracy, not dictatorship; the rule of law, not the rule of the secret police.
~Tony Blair
The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!
~Dwight D Eisenhower
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The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
~John Stuart Mill
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
~Albert Camus
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Some campaigns are not worth waging if you can’t win; others have to be fought on grounds of principle regardless of the chances for success.
~Patricia Ireland
No foreign policy – no matter how ingenious – has any chance of success if it is born in the minds of a few and carried in the hearts of none.
~Henry A Kissinger
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When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
~Dwight D Eisenhower
No conqueror believes in chance.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things.
~Edward F Halifax
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War never takes a wicked man by chance, the good man always.
~Sophocles
The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
~Ezra Pound
Thank God you are still alive for many have died and are dying as I speak. You still have the opportunity to change and make things right whilst those that have died wish for that second chance.
~Aleksandr Sebryakov
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I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them – active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular – to try and end the war.
~Jane Fonda
How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?
~Curt Weldon
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Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
~Marcus Garvey
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
~Arthur Schopenhauer
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When the Lord Chancellor violates the trust of his great office of state to solicit party donations from people whose careers he can control, and then says I’m not sorry, and I’d do it again, no wonder the public think that power has gone to their heads.
~William Hague (comma added for clarity)
The foundations of a strong economy don’t rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.
~George Osborne
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Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.
~Iain Duncan Smith
Foreign policy is about trying to deliver for them the best possible economic benefits, the chance to travel, to study, to work, the opportunity through trade to be able to sell their goods and services and as much peace and security so they can live and bring their kids up so they don’t have to fear war.
~Catherine Ashton
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It’s funny how social activists usually protest against the only things that have a credible chance of achieving the activists’ goals.
~Craig Bruce
It’s a war of attrition. If you have patience and a modicum of faith in yourself your chances are not too bad.
~Julie Bowen
Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
~Robert Collier
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I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent – urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.
~Shimon Peres
Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to see for some years to come – and we are acting to help Israelis and Palestinians seize this chance.
~Condoleezza Rice
On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
~Natan Sharansky
Give peace a chance.
~Yitzhak Rabin
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Let’s not dismiss or attack individual ideas as being inadequate before we have had a chance to assess their positive effect as part of a whole solution.
~John Thune
Treat all men alike. Give them the same law. Give them an even chance to live and grow.
~Chief Joseph (of the Nez Perce)
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Growing up, I was encouraged to get a good education, get a real job doing something I enjoyed, and, should the opportunity present itself, consider public service as just that: a chance to serve, not an end in itself.
~John Sununu
The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.
~John Boehner
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I had the closest thing I have ever had to an out-of-body experience lying in bed one morning. I turned on the ‘Today’ programme and item four on the news was: ‘The shadow chancellor has ruled himself out of the leadership.’ I lay there thinking that’s interesting, then I realised it was me.
~George Osborne
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Wealthy men can’t live in an island that is encircled by poverty. We all breathe the same air. We must give a chance to everyone, at least a basic chance.
~Ayrton Senna
Health care is not a privilege. It’s a right. It’s a right as fundamental as civil rights. It’s a right as fundamental as giving every child a chance to get a public education.
~Rod Blagojevich
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will.
~Anatole France
Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
~Luis Bunuel
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The criteria for serving one’s country should be competence, courage and willingness to serve. When we deny people the chance to serve because of their sexual orientation, we deprive them of their rights of citizenship, and we deprive our armed forces the service of willing and capable Americans.
~Dianne Feinstein
My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.
~Bruce Springsteen
It’s absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don’t want to emulate that.
~George Michael
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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.
~Walt Whitman
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
~John Lennon
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~Vandad Fallah: Majal (Chance) (4:19) mischance
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~Julian Miller: Chance Meeting (2:13) whimsy and a fabric pizza • a poem
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Enjoy your sweat because hard work doesn’t guarantee success, but without it you don’t have a chance.
~Alex Rodriguez
Luck is not chance, it’s toil; fortune’s expensive smile is earned.
~Emily Dickinson
A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.
~Emily Bronte
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Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you’re of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.
~Iain Duncan Smith
If you work from a valuable, promising idea – something that fills a gap in the market, with a market in that gap – you’ll have a better chance at success.
~Tomas Gorny
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Who can I trust? You have to invest in somebody and chances are you’re probably going to invest in somebody who’s going to deceive you. I’ve been conned a couple of times, but now I’m a little more savvy.
~Maggie Gyllenhaal
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement, you are increasing your odds of achieving success.
~Bo Bennett
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Chance can allow you to accomplish a goal every once in a while, but consistent achievement happens only if you love what you are doing.
~Bart Conner
Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.
~Michael Korda
All anyone asks for is a chance to work with pride.
~W Edwards Deming
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We all deserve second chances, but not for the same mistake.
~Thabiso Owethu Xabanisa
A second chance doesn’t mean anything if you didn’t learn from your first.
~Anurag Prakash Ray
A man deserves a second chance, but keep an eye on him.
~John Wayne
A second chance doesn’t mean you’re in the clear. In many ways, it is the more difficult thing. Because a second chance means that you have to try harder. You must rise to the challenge without the blind optimism of ignorance.
~Ling Ma
If somebody is gracious enough to give me a second chance, I won’t need a third.
~Pete Rose
I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice – in giving a failure another chance.
~James Cash Penney
Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.
~Tia Mowry
Sometimes life gives you a second chance, or even two! Not always, but sometimes. It’s what you do with those second chances that counts.
~Dave Wilson
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Everyone needs a second chance. Some of us need a third or fourth chance.
~Catherine DePasquale
Sometimes giving someone a second chance, Is like giving them an extra bullet for their gun.. cause they missed you the first time.
~author unknown
I believe in second chances, but I don’t believe in third or fourth chances.
~Selena Gomez
No one can claim perfection, that’s why everyone needs a second chance ad infinitum.
~Bangambiki Habyarimana
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§ VIDEO:
Maybe there’s a chance to get back to grown-up films. Anything that uses humor and dramatic values to deal with human emotions and gets down to what people are to people.
~Robert Altman
You weren’t going to the theater to change the world, but you had a chance to affect the world, the thinking and the feelings of the world.
~James Earl Jones
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Music is where I have the most creative freedom, but I love producing. To me, that’s kind of where all the action is. You get a chance to have your hands in every aspect of a film. From picking a director, sometimes picking a writer, to the actors, the wardrobe, set design, editing, music, and marketing.
~Ice Cube
Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it’s like discovering a filmmaker who you’re taking a chance on, protecting a battle and driving home at the end of the day just going, ‘I’m so glad I stayed late at work and fought hard for that. Had my passion. Won that battle.’
~Drew Barrymore
If you succeed with your first dream, it helps. You know, people trust you, possibly, for the second one. They give you a chance to play out your second one.
~James D Watson
Above all, film is a business… Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do.
~Mel Gibson
When you’re an actor or actress in this business, usually the natural progression is to direct, but a lot of times, we don’t get a chance to get to it. Myself, I really want to get into it. I want to be the person who eventually doesn’t have to be in front of the camera.
~Jamie Foxx
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I do not want to admit to the world that I can be a bad person. It is just that I don’t want anyone to have false expectations. Moviemaking is a harsh, volatile business, and unless you can be ruthless, too, there’s a good chance that you are going to disappear off the scene pretty quickly.
~Tom Hanks
I haven’t lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that’s from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
~Kevin Costner
If you aren’t making some mistakes, you aren’t taking enough chances.
~John Sculley
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~By Chance Films: By Chance (12:38) and… Action!
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~Sara Jain: Chance (9:49) reconnect ? disconnect
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In the back of my mind, I can never forget this could be gone tomorrow – and at this point I think the odds are against me… the chances of succeeding in this business are slim to none; there’s only a handful of people that have long careers. You have to put in the work, you can never be satisfied, never take it for granted.
~Zac Efron
From beginning to end I worried that Ang Lee wouldn’t be satisfied with my work. So I worked as hard as I could to earn his trust, because you only get a chance like this once.
~Zhang Ziyi
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I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances.
~Lee Ann Womack
I hope that through my work, artists will take some chances, break some rules, and make art that comes from inside of them. I would like to be remembered as a kind person, a great Mom, and a bit unruly – in a good way!
~Angela Cartwright
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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
~Max Eastman
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In order to have good fried chicken, you should wash and season the bird the morning you’re preparing it for dinner. Don’t wait and do it right before you start cooking. Throw it in the refrigerator, seasoned, that morning, and give it a chance to soak up all the salt and pepper and goodness.
~Paula Deen
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If by chance some day you’re not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I’ve said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.
~Red Skelton
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.
~Bette Davis
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If you’re a kid who’s not necessarily attractive, and you don’t have money, and you’re not hip and cool, chances are you’re not going to feel good about yourself and want to be an actor.
~Jim McKay
I decided to give acting a serious, committed try, and soon after, I read the script for ‘Lovely and Amazing.’ The story was beautiful and honest, and the characters struggled with the same insecurities many women – including me – face. I didn’t think I had a chance in hell of being in the film, but I knew I had to go for it.
~Emily Mortimer
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I think if you do something effectively whether you’re the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you’ll get asked to play that part again.
~Christopher Walken
When I was in college, I was debating to try my hand at show business, or to become a professor. I just thought of the risk of not going into show business and always wondering if I would’ve had a chance. Because that’s where my real heart was.
~Steve Martin
No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.
~Christopher Walken
Just keep taking chances and having fun.
~Garth Brooks
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§ MUSIC:
That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.
~Suzanne Farrell
Jazz stands for freedom. It’s supposed to be the voice of freedom: Get out there and improvise, and take chances, and don’t be a perfectionist – leave that to the classical musicians.
~Dave Brubeck
I knew I’d just done one of the most amazing things that I will ever get a chance to do. Just to be part of a musical that’s not your background and to pull it off and to think that we’ve done something that’s really special.
~Gerard Butler (Phantom of The Opera)
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The first generation of CDs sounded terrible. Any chance to remaster would make the music sound better than what was already out there.
~Lou Reed
But now I realize that this record business really needs me. No one else is trying to take a chance or do something different.
~Erykah Badu
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There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.
~Mac Davis
I got a chance to have my dream come true, and I wanted to make sure I made the decision as to when I dropped my last album. If I don’t feel like this album is an incredible piece of work, then I’m cool with the albums I’ve done. I don’t have to put out another album.
~Puff Daddy
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If you wish in this world to advance
your merits you’re bound to enhance;
You must stir it and stump it,
and blow your own trumpet,
Or, trust me, you haven’t a chance.
~William Gilbert
I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.
~Vivienne Westwood
It’s unfortunate that we live in such a panicked, dysmorphic society where women don’t even give themselves a chance to see what they’ll look like as older persons. I want to have some idea of what I’ll look like before I start cleaning the slates.
~Julia Roberts
One must not make oneself cheap here – that is a cardinal point – or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.
~Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
~Bono
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I don’t get a chance to be home much.
~Jennifer Hudson
When I do get the chance I just love to hang around at home with friends and family.
~Delta Goodrem
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~John La Touche & Ted Fetter: Taking A Chance On Love
~James Power: Ethel Waters (4:35) lively, with nice moments
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue_jOJ8GfhI
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~Ira Rohinksky MUSIC: Renee Olstead (2:51) promising young talent
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj1Iq4ojKz8
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~Jazz Improvisers: Hazel Scott (2:17) insouciant, joyful, brazen jazz piano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVgUYx6Uc78
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~Ale Pascali Music • BluBordo’ Academy & Neri per Caso Live: Give Peace A Chance (3:04) uncoupled intro, then…
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~Steve Winwood: While You See A Chance (5:13) …it’s all on you
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Same Title, Different Chances
~Cheryl Crow: Chances Are (5:05) plaintive, ethereal
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~mmuzik: Martina McBride & Bob Seger • Chances Are (3:40) getting to the best
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~Garret Hedlund: Chances Are (3:19) country mile: distance between two hearts breaking
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~Cher: Give Our Love A Fighting Chance (1:02) short, rousing anthem
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~Celine Dion: Taking Chances (4:30) because She is…
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There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us… and I will do my best.
~Petra Nemcova
Here’s the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.
~Elizabeth Gilbert
Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion.
~Imran Khan
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Stop giving so many second chances. Wishing someone would be something they’re not is a waste of time and messes with your head. Truth hurts a lot sometimes… and I hate to be the one to break it to you, but in reality, you’re stressing and agonizing about ending a relationship they left a while ago.
~Steve Maraboli
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
~W Somerset Maugham
Sometimes goodbye is a second chance.
~Shinedown
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I confess I am a romantic. I love romance, and I think it’s really fun and delicious and some of my favorite films are love stories. I think that you just get a chance to fall in love with the characters so much and you get to explore their lives so deeply.
~Rachel McAdams
Hope is the most exciting thing in life and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn’t come straight away there is still that chance all through your life that it will.
~Josh Hartnett
Taking Chances almost always makes for happy endings.
~Barbara Corcoran
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.
~Jane Austen
Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course.
~Helen Rowland
When men and women are able to respect and accept their differences then love has a chance to blossom.
~John Gray
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It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
~Richard Paul Evans
They say everyone needs a second chance, I am willing to give you one provided you are ready to accept it.
~Nidhi Saini
Because this is what I believe ‒ that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don’t let that pass you by.
~Daisy Whitney
Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
~Desmond Tutu
I will forever believe in second chances and forgiveness, because if it weren’t for those two things I would and should be dead.
~Dedrick D L Pitter
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We are never too afraid of taking chances
Searching in the dark with no concerns
But it’s always the same with all romances
It’s the heart that never seems to learn.
~Lawrence Dermer
Turn around
And see the circles we spin
Taking our chances on where we begin.
~Les Holroyd
Here I go again
I hear those trumpets blow again
All aglow again
Taking a chance on love
Here I slide again
About to take that ride again
Starry-eyed again
Taking a chance on love
~John La Touche & Ted Fetter
Cause we’re not a sure thing
Too soon to tell if we’re the real thing
But this time it’s worth taking a chance
On you and me.
~Dillon
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
~Harrison Ford
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
~Beatrice Wood
Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women – that somewhere along the line they’ll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.
~Salma Hayek
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The work that must be done for each woman to reconnect with her psyche and to give herself a chance to live her own life is essentially the same. The realization of the equality of all races, the equality of all beings is essential.
~Betty Buckley
Women may not have it easy, but we are given a fairer chance to reach for the top.
~Jessica Savitch (NBC)
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
~Lafcadio Hearn
If men are honest, everything they do and everywhere they go is for a chance to see women.
~Jack Nicholson
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If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.
~Mel Brooks
Unfortunately, we don’t get a second chance. We’ve already played them twice.
~Trevor Brooking
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance.
~Peter De Vries
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.
~Garrison Keillor
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy.
~Spike Milligan
All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.
~Mae West
Never come late to a party you were supposed to host. Second chances are rare. If you miss them… cry.
~Lod Nael
No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned… a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
~Samuel Johnson
Housework can’t kill you, but why take a chance?
~Phyllis Diller
I swear my car won’t run unless I’m picking my nose: At least, I’m that superstitious about it, so I don’t want to take any chances.
~Adam Carolla
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
~Will Rogers
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It is so interesting — the newspaper obituary page — this chance gathering of strangers — the diverse social paths they took to end up as equals, the clashing beliefs they espoused to end up on the same page.
~Robert Brault
Should I perchance still feel after my death, I would no longer have any doubt, but I would most certainly give the lie to anyone asserting before me that I was dead.
~Giacomo Casanova
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I was dying but suddenly had a second chance at living.
~Shelley Fabares
I always think about which blood drive was going on in Georgia that day when that husband or mom or school teacher rolled up their sleeve and actually gave me a second chance at life. It’s the ultimate gift of life, and I’m the one who was on the other end.
~Niki Taylor
All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.
~Christian Lous Lange
Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them.
~Francesco Guicciardini
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No man ever became wise by chance.
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There have been times when I felt suicidal and I would stop my head from going in that direction of negativity because I thought there’d be something I’d miss that was funny in the future. If there’s a chance I’m going to laugh tomorrow then want to live to experience that.
~Dave Navarro
Bad chances were better than no chances.
~Stephen King
You get as many chances as you want; as many as you dare to make for yourself.
~Edward Bloor
That is what life is about. We do not get redos, but we do get second chances.
~Jeffrey Fry
There is no such thing as no chance.
~Henry Ford
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Opportunity is a parade. Even as one chance passes, the next is a fife and drum echoing in the distance.
~Robert Brault
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
~Robert H Schuller
Second chances appear like a gift left at our doorstep.
~Holly Elissa Bruno
Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
~Ovid
How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.
~Terence
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Chances don’t approach you, it’s you who approach chances.
~Toba Beta
Chance favors only those who court her.
~Charles Nicolle
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Blind chance sweeps the world along.
~Albanian Proverb
He who takes no chances wins nothing.
~Danish Proverb
A person who misses a chance and the monkey who misses its branch — both cannot be saved.
~Indian Proverb
Whom chance often passes by, it finds at last.
~Albanian Proverb
You won’t improve your chances by taking too many.
~Poor Richard Junior’s Philosophy
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@Writers Platform
My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery – which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.
~Poppy Z Brite
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
~Anne Rice
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Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
~Scott McCloud
I don’t read ‘chick lit,’ fantasy or science fiction but I’ll give any book a chance if it’s lying there and I’ve got half an hour to kill.
~J K Rowling
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Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.
~Blaise Pascal
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
as those who move easiest have learned to dance.
~Alexander Pope
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
~Henry David Thoreau
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Prewritten Prompt: chance
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Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
~Stephen Hawking
Very few recognize science as the high adventure it really is, the wildest of all explorations ever taken by human beings, the chance to glimpse things never seen before, the shrewdest maneuver for discovering how the world works.
~Lewis Thomas
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Nothing happens quite by chance. It’s a question of accretion of information and experience.
~Jonas Salk
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.
~Abigail Adams
Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
~Havelock Ellis
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
~Laura Schlessinger
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Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice.
~David Elkind
It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
~Jean Piaget
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Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.
~Voltaire
There is no such thing as chance or accident; the words merely signify our ignorance of some real and immediate cause.
~Adam Clarke
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
~Hosea Ballou
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A body of work such as Pasteur’s is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.
~Jean Rostand
Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind.
~Louis Pasteur
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I have become convinced that God thoroughly enjoys fixing and saving things that are broken. That means that no matter how hurt and defeated you feel, no matter how badly you have been damaged, God can repair you. God can give anyone a second chance.
~Melody Carlson
Our God of Grace often gives us a second chance, but there is no second chance to harvest a ripe crop.
~Kurt Von Schleicher
[When it comes to God] We can’t run out of second chances…only time.
~Robin Jones Gunn
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Someone said that Providence was the baptismal name of Chance, some devout soul may say that Chance is a nickname for Providence.
~Sébastien-Roch Nicolas Chamfort
There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God, when he does not want to sign.
~Théophile Gautier
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It makes a difference what we choose to experience during sleep. Many of us think of sleep as a chance to get away from it all. But sleep is also a chance to return to the joys of our spiritual heritage – our universal awareness.
~Henry Reed
Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
~Carl Sagan
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There are people who want to make men’s lives more difficult for no other reason than the chance it provides them afterwards to offer their prescription for alleviating life; their Christianity, for instance.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
I’m actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.
~Brian Eno
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster!
~Anatole France
Sometimes you just have to have Faith and take a Chance…even when your heart is shaking! Have Faith in the blessings that God has planned for you!
~Nishan Panwar
Our God is a God of second chances – Yes, God does these things again and again for people.
~Job 33:29
First, I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.
~Oksana Baiul
I will accept my second chance for a truer, simpler and more sacred life.
~Holly Elissa Bruno
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§ The Exercise:
forecast
chance of stormburst
threatens east of now
sunset lining up
to stage a rainbow
if…
after
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a tuesday
it is we who are faithless
grown to be suspicious
spicy lies baked-in delicious
echo back as repetitious
verbs reverb as meretricious
chance to prove our superstitions
election’s timing most auspicious
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last call
no next chance
or another try
at last chance
not to know whence
or the when of who
the lost chance
for love
companionship
or just lust
this confidence:
time passes
a lapsed chance
love, off the list
late term memory
risk aborted
never started
overlooked
chance missed
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and/or
chance encounter
preordained well-met
reckless driving
pending calamity
calculated risk
first step to war
born on one’s birthday
not a coincidence
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5s ‘n 7s
as ripe as a seed
and sour as a grin
steady as notions
chance mind of the wind
sweet as a salt lick
stalwart as a reed
love, trying again
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serious questions
convoluted words
complex avoidance
twisty sentences
simple sophistry
tortuous answers
pass the turkey, please
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Last Chance Happiness
Hotel, Cafe, Bar, Pool Hall
Here & Nowhere Else
You play and pay in one place
Back Door’s neglected mention
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chance discovery
‘tween blue sky and deep blue sea
an anomaly
sunset light and island life
silhouette of you and me
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ghouls for a fan base
feed on notoriety
no chance privacy
camera bombed, pose your face
happy anonymity
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chance or happenstance
perchance serendipity
our coincidence
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waiting for a chance
vertical → horizontal
to slow ways of dance
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The Olio and Salmagundi of Quotes
A lifetime isn’t forever, so take the first chance, don’t wait for the second one! Because sometimes, there aren’t second chances! And if it turns out to be a mistake? So what! This is life! A whole bunch of mistakes! But if you never get a second chance…
~C JoyBell C
Sometimes you don’t get a second chance. You need to take a chance when you have the opportunity. Always.
~Gavin MacLeod
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For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.
~Hugo Pratt
You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren’t happy in one place, chances are you won’t be happy anyplace.
~Ernie Banks
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
~Aristotle
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
~King Edward VIII
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A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
~Alanis Morissette
I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.
~Hedy Lamarr
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Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.
~Douglas Horton
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings.
~Cormac Mccarthy
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Those who trust to chance must abide by the results of chance.
~Calvin Coolidge
Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned.
~Robert Brault
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No second chances at a single moment.
~Jeanette Winterson
Every second we have a second chance to do something we haven’t done yet. That’s why it’s called a second and not a first.
~Robert J Braathe
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I’ve learned that making a ‘living’ is not the same thing as making a ‘life’. I’ve learned that life sometimes gives you a second chance. I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
~Maya Angelou
May your days abound with second chances and your heart be strong and vulnerable enough to choose the unseen and the unknown.
~Holly Elissa Bruno
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Let Tomorrow be your second chance to prove that you are better than today and yesterday.
~Ritu Ghatourey
Every second a seeker can start over,
For his life’s mistakes
Are initial drafts
And not the final version.
~Sri Chinmoy
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Every moment of your life is a second chance.
~Rick Price
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The Olio
Quotes harvested from: https://bqotd.com, https://quotegarden.com, https://wisesayings.com
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Fun Tarts: https://gocomics.com
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The Salmagundi
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Editor’s Note: A sadly neglected directory of theme words for the Post & Review has been amended and updated online. Altho detours and distractions are to be expected when exploring the thick woods of words and ideas, this editor apologizes to anyone encountering a roadblock to curiosity anywhere on this site.
Wordgrove’s Directory of Theme Words:
https://wordgrove.com/themes-list.html
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Links to earlier works, including the Prologue to Archipelago
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