“Like everyone else in this world, I have had struggles. There's disappointment and obstacles in everybody's life. I feel like I was writing 'Second Chance' not just for myself, but also for the people who have struggled.” PeopleWorldFeelsWritingChanceStruggleThis WorldDisappointmentObstaclesSecond Chance Author:El DeBarge
“The struggles I'm facing, the chances I'm taking.Sometimes they knock me down, but, no, I'm not breaking.I may not know it, but these are the momentsI am going to remember most, just got to keep going.” KnowsMaySometimesRememberChanceStruggleKeep Going Author:Miley Cyrus
“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
“By marrying to soon, many individuals sacrifice their chance to struggle through this purgatory of solitude and search toward a greater sense of self-confidence. They glance at the world outside the family and with hardly a second thought grasp anxiously for a partner. In marriage they seek a substitute for the security of the family of origin and an escape from aloneness. What they do not realize is that moving so quickly from one family to another, they make it easy to transfer to the new marriage all their difficult experiences in the family of origin.” WorldSelfMovingIndividualEasyDifficultRealizingChanceStruggleGreaterSacrificeSecuritySolitudeSelf ConfidencePartnersSubstitutesGlancesTransfersSense Of SelfMarryingPurgatorySecond ThoughtsDifficult Experiences Author:Augustus
“it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear war than live in such a world.” WorldWayWarFoundNationsCausesChanceMy OwnStruggleEnvironmentBattleSurvivalHundredPressureMereForgottenPopulationSavedResistanceDamnParksWildernessHopelessOverwhelmingSanityConservationCan NotPreservationCrowdedNuclear WarGood Causes Book:Desert Solitaire Source: Desert Solitaire
“After the fever of life--after wearinesses, sicknesses, fightings and despondings, languor and fretfulness, struggling and failing, struggling and succeeding--after all the changes and chances of this troubled and unhealthy state, at length comes death--at length the white throne of God--at length the beatific vision.” StatesFightingHeavenChanceWhiteVisionStruggleFailingSucceedSicknessLengthThronesFeverUnhealthyWeariness Book:Parochial and Plain Sermons Source: Parochial and Plain Sermons
“It took me three, four years, to get from my first film to my second film, banging on doors, trying to get people to give me a chance. Writing, struggling, with no money in the bank, working as an editor on the side. Working as a cameraman on the side. Getting little jobs, eking out a living. Trying to stay alive, and pushing a script that nobody wanted.” PeopleGivingWritingTryingYearsFirstsLittlesWantedJobsFilmThreeSidesChanceStruggleFourAliveDoorsGive MeScriptsPushingEditorsFour YearsNo MoneyStaying AliveBangingCameramanGive Me A Chance Author:George Lucas
“Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize.” PeopleThinkingWantSelfChanceStruggleIssuesSelf EsteemAcceptanceHorribleEsteemComedianSelf AcceptanceArchitectMudEmbarrassmentSelf Esteem Issues Author:Mike Myers
“... if variations useful to any organic being do occur, assuredly individuals thus characterized will have the best chance of being perserved in the struggle for life; and from the strong principle of inheritance they will tend to produce offsping similarly characterized. This principle of preservation, I have called, for the sake of brevity, Natural Selection.” IfsIndividualStrongNaturalChancePrinciplesStruggleProduceSakePreservationSelectionInheritanceVariationNatural SelectionBrevity Book:The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959 Source: The Works of Charles Darwin: On the origin of species 1959