“Gershwin's tragedy was not that he failed to cross the tracks, but rather that he did, and once there in his new habitat, was deprived of the chance to plunge his roots firmly into the new soil.” ChanceCrossesRootsTragedyTrackSoilDeprivedPlungeHabitatGershwin Author:George Gershwin
“Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.” WorldMayArtSeemsChanceStruggleRocksWindGeniusGloryRootsAdversityProductionsDelightSpreadSeedsStrikesMaturitySunshineNow And ThenThornsDisappointingVigorVegetationBirthplace Author:Washington Irving
“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsLooksHeartCountryAbleLostProcessChanceTreeDangerousSeriousRootsSickStrangerVulnerableSoilBelongingLackingRefugeeRidiculeMisunderstoodSuspicious Author:Maria Franziska von Trapp
“We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.” WayLooksRunningEnergyChanceRootsDiscriminationCollectivesPollutionRetreatLooking For HappinessDeep Roots Author:Nhat Hanh
“When I was first starting out, I drove myself around the country in my Honda Civic, playing anywhere that would have me. This is a chance to strip the songs down to their roots and let the audience hear them the way I write them.” WayWritingFirstsCountrySongChanceAudienceRootsStartingCivicsStarting OutHonda Author:Eric Hutchinson
“Contemporary philosophers are facing problems that were unthinkable only one century ago, such as whether space and time are mutually Independent, whether there is objective chance or only uncertainty, whether physics can explain chemical change, whether our behavior is fully determined by our genomes, whether ideation can change the brain, or whether either the economy or ideas are the ultimate roots of the social.” IdeasProblemSocialChanceSpaceBrainEconomyCenturyBehaviorRootsUltimateIndependentPhilosopherDeterminedPhysicsObjectivesContemporaryUncertaintyChemicalsTime And SpaceUnthinkableGenomeIdeation Author:Mario Bunge
“When ownership is local and national, and various stakeholders work together, program innovations have a greater chance to take root and survive.” TogetherChanceGreaterProgramRootsInnovationVariousLocalsWorking TogetherOwnershipStakeholder Author:Ruth Simmons
“Yet it would be unfair to the generality of our kind to ascribe to their intellectual and moral weakness the gradual divergence of Buddhism and Christianity from their primitive patterns. For it should not be forgotten that by their glorification of poverty and celibacy both these religions struck straight at the root not merely of civil society but of human existence. The blow was parried by the wisdom or the folly of the vast majority of mankind, who refused to purchase a chance of saving their souls with the certainty of extinguishing the species.” ShouldHumansKindSoulWould BeChanceExistenceMoralChristianityPovertyMankindBuddhismIntellectualWeaknessRootsMajoritySpeciesForgottenPatternsBlowSavingCertaintyFollyPrimitiveUnfairHuman ExistenceCivil SocietyCelibacyGeneralitiesGlorificationDivergenceBuddhism And Christianity Author:James G. Frazer
“If you experience chronic difficulties in a particular area of your life, there's a strong chance that the root of the problem is a failure to accept reality as it is.” IfsProblemRealityStrongChanceAcceptingParticularAreasRootsDifficulty Author:Steve Pavlina