“Moral decay first hampers and then strangles honest government, regular commerce, and even the ability to take genuine pleasure in the goods of this world. Compulsion is applied from above as self-discipline relaxes below, and the last liberties expire under the weight of a unitary state.... Since religion has lost its empire over the souls of men, the most prominent boundary that divided good from evil is overthrown; kings and nations are guided by chance and none can say where are the natural limits of despotism and the bound of license.” MenWorldFirstsSoulSelfStatesGovernmentLastsEvilLostNationsNaturalChanceAbilityPleasureLibertyMoralHonestThis WorldKingsDisciplineLimitsWeightBoundsCorruptionBoundariesGenuineRelaxEmpiresGoodsDividedDecayCommerceSelf DisciplineLicenseCompulsionDespotismProminentHamperMoral DecayHonest Government Author:Russell Kirk
“I’m a guy that creates my own destiny in this world. Until I’m off the planet, there’s always a second chance.” WorldInspirationalGuyChanceMy OwnDestinyThis WorldPlanetsCreatingMmaSecond ChanceThere Is Always A Way Author:Urijah Faber
“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 web of this world is woven of Necessity and Chance. Woe to him who has accustomed himself from his youth up to find something necessary in what is capricious, and who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.” WorldReasonChanceAtheismThis WorldYouthWoeAccustomedWovenCapricious Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“But isn't it likely that everyone in this world...has killed someone or other on their way to the top?...All I wanted was a chance to be a man--and for that, one murder is enough.” MenWorldWayEnoughWantedChanceThis WorldMurderBe A Man Author:Aravind Adiga
“Some of you young folks been saying to me, "Hey Pops, what you mean 'What a wonderful world'? How about all them wars all over the place? You call them wonderful? And how about hunger and pollution? That aint so wonderful either." Well how about listening to old Pops for a minute. Seems to me, it aint the world that's so bad but what we're doin' to it. And all I'm saying is, see, what a wonderful world it would be if only we'd give it a chance. Love baby, love. That's the secret, yeah. If lots more of us loved each other, we'd solve lots more problems. And then this world would be a gasser.” IfsMenWorldGivingMeanWarProblemSeemsWould BeYoungChanceSecretWonderfulMinutesThis WorldBabyListeningYeahHungerFolksPopsSolveHeyPollutionWonderful WorldBaby LoveGive It A Chance Author:Louis Armstrong
“Though we cannot totally change our nature, we may in great measure correct it by reflection and philosophy; and some philosophy is a very necessary companion in this world, where, even to the most fortunate, the chances are greatly against happiness.” ThinkingWorldMayPhilosophyChanceHuman NatureThis WorldReflectionFortunateThoughtfulCompanionChances Are Book:Lord Chesterfield's Letters Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“How much in this world is charged to chance or fortune, or veiled under a more devout name, and accorded to Providence; while, when we come to look honestly into affairs, we find it to be a debt of our own accumulation, and one which we must inevitably pay.” WorldLooksNamesChancePayThis WorldFortuneAffairDebtHonestlyProvidenceAccumulation Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“We all have to learn, in one way or another, that neither men nor boys get second chances in this world. We all get new chances to the end of our lives, but not second chances in the same set of circumstances; and the great difference between one person and another is how he takes hold and uses his first chance, and how he takes his fall if it is scored against him.” IfsMenWorldWayLifeFirstsPersonsEndsUseFallDifferencesChanceBoysLearningOur LivesThis WorldCircumstancesOne WaySecond Chance Book:True Manliness Source: True Manliness
“I'm used to being crazy and "rock-n-rolly", which is a little different than this world. For me, it was a chance to stretch a little bit.” WorldLittlesDifferentUsedBitsChanceCrazyRocksThis WorldLittle BitBeing Crazy Author:Jack Black
“This world should be much more open and should be much more free, so the young people would have the chance to exercise the quality of their lives.” PeopleWorldShouldYoungChanceQualityThis WorldExercise Author:Ai Weiwei