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“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?”

Two Given Chance Numbers Five Wife Type Months Right Now Charm Marrying

Author:Vince Neil

“I mean, the world has already done a big, big effort to forget debt to countries heavily indebted and with low income. And that has given good chances to countries to get out of poverty.”

World Mean Country Done Bigs Given Chance Forget Effort Poverty Lows Debt Income Indebted Good Chance Low Income

Author:Rodrigo Rato

“Even if severe wounds are given, the Indian has many chances in his favor, for his organization is somewhat different from that of white men, and he recovers easily from wounds that would kill any European outright.”

Ifs Men Different Given Chance White Organization Favors Wounds Indian Severe White Man

Book:Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

Source: Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern

“I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.”

Ifs Persons I Can Given Challenges Chance Proof Rise Above That One Person

Book:War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

Source: War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

“I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV.”

Years Stills Wanted Given Chance Behinds Fronts Tvs Scene News Cameras Profile Behind The Scenes Breaking News

Author:Andy Cohen

“Occasionally, you will be given the chance to be either intellectual or pleasant. Leave being intellectual to others.”

Inspirational Given Chance Intellectual Pleasant

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“The whole Constitution has been erected upon the assumption that the King not only is capable of doing wrong but is more likely to do wrong than other men if he is given the chance.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Whole Given Chance Kings Capable Constitution Assumption

Author:A. P. Herbert

“America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while the public taste is occupied with their trash - and should be ashamed of myself if I did succeed. What is the mystery of these innumerable editions of the Lamplighter, and other books neither better nor worse? - worse they could not be, and better they need not be, when they sell by 100,000.”

Ifs Needs Should Book America Given Chance Mystery Taste Succeed Should Have Sells Ashamed Trash

Book:The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

Source: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings

“Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle.”

Mean Two Given Chance Moral Cases Virtue Example Morality Tasks Vices Circles Excess Defects Moral Virtues

Book:The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

Source: The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle

“Human beings being what they are, order spreads, given half a chance, almost as fast as confusion.”

Humans Order Given Chance Human Beings Half Spread Confusion

Book:The Fall of the Towers

Source: The Fall of the Towers

“In our own country, we have seen America pay a terrible price for any form of discrimination, and we have seen us grow stronger as we have steadily let more and more of our hatreds and our fears go. As we have given more and more of our people the chance to live their dreams. That is why the flame of our Statue of Liberty, like the Olympic flame carried all across America by thousands of citizen heroes will always burn brighter than the flames that burn our churches, our synagogues, our mosques.”

“Yeah, I feel sort of unfinished in New York, even though I spent so many years there. I think it's because I never got a chance to do any Broadway, or even off-Broadway. I would love to do that and I haven't given up on that.”

Thinking Feels Years Given Chance Havens New York Yeah Broadway Given Up Unfinished

Author:Eva LaRue

“I'm trying to be a professional singer. ... I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change.”

Trying Given Chance Singers

Author:Susan Boyle

“We're not given the chance to choose absolute truth. Truth's always two-faced. The only thing we have is the right to reject the lie we find most repugnant.”

Two Lying Given Chance Absolutes Rejects Absolute Truth

Book:Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and lightly instructing thousands, but gaining none of the prizes, whether of weighty reputation or popular renown, which more fortunate chances, or more pretending modes of investing talent, have given in our day to men of half his merits.”

Men Years Given Chance Half Path Talent Twenties Investing Reputation Fortunate Merit Prize Pretending Composition Renown

Author:Samuel Laman Blanchard

“Beauty is about Accepting yourself for who you are. It's about feeling secure about yourself. It's about feeling so blessed everyday that we are given the chance to live. All those beautiful feeling and positive energy inside you, now that is what makes you beautiful.”

Feelings Beautiful Energy Given Chance Accepting Blessed Who You Are Everyday Secure About Yourself Positive Energy Accepting Yourself

Author:Davina Veronica

“Golf gives no margin: either you win or you fail. You cannot hedge; you cannot bluff; you cannot give a stop order. One chance is given you, and you hit or miss. There is nothing more rigid in life. And it is this ultra and extreme rigidity that makes golf so intensely interesting.”

Giving Order Winning Given Chance Interesting Failing Missing Golf Extremes Margins Chances Are Rigidity Ultras One Chance Bluffs

Book:The Mystery of Golf

Source: The Mystery of Golf

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience.”

People Ifs Humans Government Courses Given Chance Human Beings Theory Normal Democratic Average Bitter Democratic Government Given A Chance Bitter Experience

Book:Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

Source: Black Folk Then and Now (The Oxford W.E.B. Du Bois): An Essay in the History and Sociology of the Negro Race

“Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.”

Given Enjoy Chance Anxiety Parenthood Fewer Grandparent Second Chance Tribulation Given A Second Chance

Book:Family

Source: Family

“If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.”

Ifs Men Romance Given Chance Wife Office Luck Decent Labour Occupation Romance In Marriage

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“I am glad that I was given the chance. I knew I could still play at a high level.”

Stills Play Given Chance Levels Glad Nfl High Level

Author:Kurt Warner

“All we seek is an America where every person is given the chance to productively contribute to his country and where he can receive a fair and equitable share of the wealth that production creates.”

Persons Country Wisdom America Given Wealth Chance Share Fairs Productions Equitable

Author:Coretta Scott King

“Basketball has always and will always come first to me but it's also given me the chance to do really fun things and work with really fun people and its something I'm lucky to have.”

People Firsts Given Fun Chance Lucky Basketball Fun Things

Author:Blake Griffin

“Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.”

Source: American Dreams: Restoring Economic Opportunity for Everyone

“Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters.”

Matter Given Realizing Chance Full Potential

Author:Barack Obama

“I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are.”

Ifs Thinking Mind Given Chance Fantasy Hero One Day Heroic Loved Ones Think Of You Transcendent Given A Chance

Author:Megan Fox

“I did feel as though a number of critics had appointed themselves, when they sat down with a new book of mine, to rectify what they felt to be was my inflated reputation and so that the book in hand was not really given a chance but made a kind of weapon in the general attempt to bring me down to size.”

Feels Kind Made Book Hands Given Felt Chance Numbers Mines Weapons Critics Size Reputation Sat New Books Rectify Given A Chance Bring Me Down

Book:Conversations with John Updike

Source: Conversations with John Updike

“As one of my teachers, Buckminster Fuller, says, we were given a right foot and a left foot, not a right foot and a wrong foot. The point is that, there's always two points of view out there, and we need to increase our ability to allow another point of view. Then we have a better chance for peace.”

Needs Two Left Given Chance Ability Views Teacher Feet Increase Point Of View Buckminster Fuller

Author:Robert Kiyosaki

“If life is a journey, time should pull over at a rest stop sometimes - we should all be given a chance to get off and stretch our legs, collect our thoughts and reorganize.”

Ifs Should Sometimes Life Is Given Chance Journey Legs Our Thoughts Life Is A Journey Given A Chance

Author:Rob Payne

“Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.”

Firsts Shows Seems Lasts Given Chance Comedy Female Species Appearance Second Chance

Author:Jo Brand

“I always want to try new things, and 'Mean Machine' has given me that chance. I have got plans to carry on acting and would love to play all sorts of roles - you'll see that there's more strings to my bow!”

Want Trying Mean Play Given Chance Acting Roles Plans Machines Strings Bows New Things

Author:Vinnie Jones

“I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fear of human beings, they're loaded with foul diseases, they would run the place given half the chance, and I've had them leap out of a lavatory while I've been sitting on it.”

Humans Problem Running Given Chance Human Beings Half Disease Sitting Leap Rats No Fear Foul Loaded Have No Fear

Author:David Attenborough

“I learnt from an early age this need to delegate responsibility out to other team members as there is just too much for one person to do themselves. What is the point of hiring talented team members if you don't give them the freedom to make the most of the chance you have given them?”

Ifs Needs Giving Persons Age Given Chance Responsibility Too Much Team Members Hiring Delegates Team Member

Author:Richard Branson

“A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.”

Ifs Heart Given Chance Half Amazing Things

Book:Squashed

Source: Squashed

“I feel like I hadn't given that many classic films, like, a really good chance. I watched 'Casablanca' a really long time ago when I was like, 12. I didn't like it that much, and then when I saw it again in class, I loved it.”

Feels Long Film Given Chance Class Saws Long Time Classic Long Time Ago Really Long Good Chance Classic Films

Author:Miranda Cosgrove

“I'm a big fan of the Rocky series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.”

Bigs Given Chance Fans Football Series Tennis Boxing Ardent

Author:Vijender Singh

“Peru is a country where more than half the people would emigrate if given the chance. Thats half the population that is willing to abandon everything they know for the uncertainty of a life in a foreign land, in another language.”

People Ifs Knows Country Language Given Chance Half Land Willing Population Uncertainty Abandon Peru Foreign Lands

Author:Daniel Alarcon

“I pledge to invest in women because I believe it offers one of the greatest returns on investment. I am committed to the belief that we would all be in a much better place if half the human race (women) were empowered to prosper, invent, be educated, start their own businesses, run for office essentially be given the chance to soar.”

“After what I have seen, I realize that absolutely anything is possible, and that we did not come here to suffer. Life is supposed to be great, and we are very, very loved. The way I look at life has changed dramatically, and I am so glad to have been given a second chance to experience “heaven on earth”.”

Way Looks Has Beens Earth Life Is Suffering Given Heaven Realizing Chance Changed Glad Supposed To Be Second Chance Anything Is Possible Heaven On Earth Life Has Changed Given A Second Chance

Author:Anita Moorjani

“To me, all those jobs I did [roles] have been amazing experiences for one reason or another. I got paid and I learned something. I think that's what helped me carry on because I've never really given out that energy of, "oh, I've lost my chance" or missed it in some way.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Reason Jobs Energy Lost Given Chance Roles Paid Amazing Experiences

Author:Gerard Butler

“I am not a preacher. I don't want to stand on a soapbox and tell people, "Don't drink. Don't use drugs." With my kids, I say "Don't drink. Don't do drugs." But when they turn 21, they can drink. I hope they never use drugs, but people make their own decisions. When they're old enough, they are going to have the chance to make their own decisions. I just hope I have given them enough love and support, and the ability to come and talk to me if they need to.”

People Ifs Want Needs Enough Use Kids Turns Given Chance Ability Decision Support Drink Drug Preacher Talk To Me Enough Love Soapbox

Author:Nikki Sixx

“The purpose of adolescence is to revise the past, not to obliterate it. . . . Adolescence entails the deployment of family passions to the passions and ideals that bind individuals to new family units, to their communities, to the species, to nature, to the cosmos. Therefore, given half a chance, the revolution at issue in adolescence becomes a revolution of transformation, not of annihilation.”

Past Purpose Passion Individual Given Community Chance Half Issues Revolution Ideals Transformation Species Cosmos Adolescence Units Annihilation Deployment Family Unit New Family

Author:Louise J. Kaplan

“Our national experience in Americanizing millions of Europeans whose chief wish was to become Americans has been a heady wine which has made us believe, as perhaps no nation before us has ever believed, that, given the slimmest chance, all peoples will pattern themselves upon our model.”

Believe Has Beens Made Given Nations Wish Chance Millions Models Wine Patterns Chiefs Assimilation

Book:An Anthropologist at Work

Source: An Anthropologist at Work

“Never waste time and energy wishing you were somewhere else, doing something else. Accept your situation and realize you are where you are, doing what you are doing, for a very specific reason. Realize that nothing is by chance, that you have certain lessons to learn and that the situation you are in has been given to you to enable you to learn those lessons as quickly as possible, so that you can move onward and upward along this spiritual path.”

“... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography which marks the inception of an unexpressed thought upon the pages of one's notebook, one is aware, of any given idea, that the chances are against its ever being offered to one's dearest readers.”

May Book Ideas Beautiful Lying Given Chance Written Reader Pages Mark Schedules Chances Are Notebook Inception

Author:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

“Our ancestors ... possessed a right, which nature has given to all men, of departing from the country in which chance, not choice has placed them.”

Men Country Choices Given Chance Ancestor Possessed Departing

Book:Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers

Source: Memoirs, 1: Correspondence and Private Papers

“When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. Even more than you can imagine will grow there if given a chance.”

Ifs Eye Lying Given Grows Waiting Chance Rich Imagine Surface Seeds Soil Nurture Gardener Fertile Sowing Given A Chance Sowing Seeds Fertile Soil

Author:Steve Goodier

“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.”

Self Stories Given Chance My Own Five Golden Capture Tickets

Author:Anne Lamott

“The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability”

“Sometimes God picks you up and tells you, "You've been messing around now. You're going to have to stop this, stop that, but I'll give you another chance." And you wonder why you're given another chance. It must be for something; it must be to celebrate life.”

Giving Sometimes Given Chance Wonder Picks Celebrate Another Chance Celebrate Life

Author:Martin Scorsese

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