“I guess I am just not the marrying type. I have given it a few chances, and it just goes haywire after a month or two. I am on wife number five right now, maybe five's a charm?” TwoGivenChanceNumbersFiveWifeTypeMonthsRight NowCharmMarrying Author:Vince Neil
“You want to play in every game, and you especially don't want to be in the penalty box for five minutes and give the other team a chance to get a power play, and you don't want to hurt anyone on the other team.” WantGivingPlayGamesHurtChanceFiveTeamMinutesBoxesPenaltiesFive MinutesPower Play Author:Carl Hagelin
“According to a British poll, you've only got a one in five chance of achieving your childhood career ambition. Which probably explains why you don't run into that many cowboys, princesses, or space rangers.” RunningChanceSpaceCareersFiveChildhoodAchieveAmbitionBritishYour ChildrenPrincessCowboyPollsRangers Author:Jay Leno
“Average Jones had come by his nickname inevitably. His parents had foredoomed him to it when they furnished him with the initials A. V. R. E. as preface to his birthright of J for Jones. His character apparently justified the chance concomitance. He was, so to speak, a composite photograph of any thousand well-conditioned, clean-living Americans between the ages of twenty-five and thirty.” WellsCharacterAgeSpeakParentChanceFiveThousandTwentiesCleanPhotographAverageThirtyJustifiedInitialsTwenty FiveBirthrightNicknamesCompositesClean Living Book:Average Jones Source: Average Jones
“Until the Yom Kippur War, in 1973, until then Israel didn't have a chance but to fight for her life. We were attacked five times, outgunned, outnumbered, on a small piece of land, and our main challenge was to remain alive.” WarFightingChallengesChanceFivePiecesAliveLandIsraelSmall PiecesYom Kippur Author:Shimon Peres
“Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?” DoeRememberChanceFiveMissingFootballEnglandVideoManagersSoccerScoreTapeYardsScotlandChairman Author:Berti Vogts
“Separate from the other unnamed billions who walk the earth, each of these little groups of three or five or twelve, brought together by the shuffle of chance, then welded by blood, sees in itself the whole of earth, or all that matters of it. What happens to one of the three or five or twelve will happen to them all. Whatever grief or triumph may touch any one will touch every one, as they are carried forward into the unknowable under the brilliant, terrifying sun which nourishes all.” MayLittlesMatterWholeHappensEarthTogetherThreeChanceWalksGriefFamilySunFiveGroupsBloodBrilliantBillionsTriumphTwelveShuffleGroups Of Three Book:Evergreen Source: Evergreen
“Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.” IfsShouldYearsHas BeensSoulChancePoorKindnessFiveCreditSelfishSuitsGenerositySelfishnessImpulseSelflessForgivenMonstrous Author:Carolyn Heilbrun
“So many of the wars in history, thousands and thousands of them for the past five, six, seven thousand years, have been related to differences in Truth claims. If we can evolve beyond that problem, then I think there's some chance that we could retire the whole institution of war and begin to focus on the peaceful evolution of humanity.” IfsThinkingYearsHas BeensWarWholeProblemPastHumanityDifferencesChanceFiveFocusEvolutionThousandSixClaimsInstitutionsSevenPeacefulEvolveRelatedRetiringThousand YearsInterfaith Author:Wayne Teasdale
“In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery.” MenWorldHumansHas BeensMadeSelfInspirationCultureLeftChanceResultsEmotionKnownTechnologyFiveGreaterMankindPercentCapacityMiseryFiftyEthicalStabilityVagueIntuitive Book:The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction Source: The foundation trilogy: three classics of science fiction
“No one seriously disputes that today a woman in Afghanistan is less likely to die giving birth to a child, that the child is more likely to reach the age of five years old, and having reached the age of five that child is far more likely to have a chance to go to school.” GivingYearsChildrenAgeTodaySchoolDiesChanceFiveBirthFive YearsAfghanistanDisputesGiving BirthFive Year Olds Author:Graeme Smith
“My relationship with brick-and-mortar shopping is, in general, unpleasant. I can't remember a time in my life when I could go to a physical store and find a variety of things in my size that excited me and fit my personal style. As a plus-size shopper at a typical mall, you're limited to at most five stores out of maybe 50 clothing retailers. That leaves us with very few options and, for people on a tight budget, pretty much no chance of comparison shopping. You take what you can get.” PeopleI CanRememberChanceFiveStyleFitSizeExcitedStoresVarietyBudgetsComparisonPlusShoppingClothingsTypicalBricksMallsPersonal StyleMortarRetailersShoppersPlus SizeBricks And Mortar Author:Lindy West
“I'd always enjoyed the comics more, and felt that as long as I was unemployed it would be a good chance to pursue that and see what response I could get from asyndicate, as I didn't have anything to lose at that point. So I drew up a comic strip - this was in 1980 - and sent it off and got rejected. I continued that for five years with different comic strip examples 'til finally Calvin and Hobbes came together. But it's been a long road.” YearsLongDifferentWould BeTogetherFeltLosesChanceFiveExampleResponsePursueComicEnjoyedFive YearsRejectedUnemployedGood ChanceHobbesComic StripsLong Road Author:Bill Watterson
“I got one of the five golden tickets to be a writer, and I take that seriously. I don't love my own work at all, but I love my own self. I love that I've been given the chance to capture the stories that come through me.” SelfStoriesGivenChanceMy OwnFiveGoldenCaptureTickets Author:Anne Lamott
“Obviously this stuff takes a bit of planning, but I've always been someone that sets achievable short-term goals. I've never been someone that's had a five-year plan, or a three-year plan. That just seems to lead to a lot of disappointment, and doesn't give you the chance to be flexible. So I've just always been someone that's sort of reassessed where I'm at, and set goals that are realistic. And luckily, I've had plenty of chances to recalibrate and adjust, and good fortune's come my way.” WayGivingYearsSeemsThreeStuffBitsGoalTermChanceFivePlansFortuneDisappointmentPlanningPlentyMy WayFive YearsRealisticThree YearsFlexibleSetting GoalsShort TermGood FortuneFive Year PlansShort Term Goals Author:Eric Bana
“Scientists with access to data from Navy submarines traversing underneath the North polar ice cap have warned that there is now a 75 percent chance that within five years the entire ice cap will completely disappear during the summer months.” YearsChanceFiveMonthsSummerPercentScientistDisappearAccessIceDataFive YearsNavyCapsSubmarines Author:Al Gore
“My audience is comprised of three categories. The first category contains the people who decide after the first five minutes that they've made a mistake and leave. The second category is the people who give the film a chance and leave annoyed after 40 minutes. The third category includes the people that watch the whole film and return to see it again. If I'm able to persuade 33% of the audience to stay, then I can say that I've succeeded.” PeopleIfsGivingFirstsMadeI CanWholeAbleFilmThreeChanceMistakeWatchesAudienceFiveMinutesReturnThirdsCategoriesFive MinutesAnnoyedMade A Mistake Author:Peter Greenaway
“I love Gustavo Dudamel and I love what he does for classical music, and I love what he comes out of, El Sistema and the old man Abreu. When we were in Venezuela, I had the chance to go to his building. He had, like, five or six orchestras playing of kids from the hood playing, like, Mahler's third symphony and Shostakovich fifth and Beethoven. Man, it's unbelievable. I mean, they could play.” MenMeanDoePlayKidsChanceFiveBuildingSixThirdsOld ManUnbelievableOrchestraFifthSymphonyClassical MusicHoodVenezuelaMahlerShostakovich Author:Wynton Marsalis
“I suppose I'm not quite the oldest detective on the block - David Jason is. When's he going to retire and give rest of us a chance?! No, his Touch Of Frost is terrific and a wonderful antidote to the po-faced detective shows around at the moment. Anyway, I can't retire. I have a wife and five chickens to feed.” GivingI CanMomentsShowsChanceFiveWifeWonderfulBlockChickensRetiringTerrificAntidoteDetectivesFrostJason Author:John Nettles