“We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent co-annihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance to choose between chaos and community.” WellsMayStillsTodayLastsChoicesPeaceCommunityChanceMankindChaosViolentAnnihilationCoexistenceLast Chance Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I think that the failures of Enron and WorldCom and other companies are partially failures of investors to recognize companies that are selling for a thousand times nothing, but chances are they may be worth only that.” ThinkingMayChanceCompanyThousandSellingInvestorsChances AreEnron Author:Arthur Levitt Jr
“Romney, supposedly the Republican most electable next November, is a recidivist reviser of his principles who is not only becoming less electable; he might damage GOP chances of capturing the Senate... Republicans may have found their Michael Dukakis.” MayMightNextFoundChancePrinciplesBecomingRepublicanDamageSenateRomneyNovemberGop Author:George Will
“If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.” IfsTryingMayHappinessUsedChanceStepsBuddhismPureUsed To BeMotiveChances AreMeditatingSkipVibrate Author:Frederick Lenz
“The world men inhabit is rather bleak. It is a world full of doubt and confusion, where vulnerability must be hidden, not shared; where competition, not co-operation, is the order of the day; where men sacrifice the possibility of knowing their own children and sharing in their upbringing, for the sake of a job they may have chosen by chance, which may not suit them and which in many cases dominates their lives to the exclusion of much else.” MenWorldMayChildrenJobsOrderChanceCasesKnowingDoubtSacrificePossibilityCompetitionSakeChosenConfusionSuitsOperationsVulnerabilityUpbringingExclusionBleak Author:Anna Ford
“I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him.” MayChanceAccountsBreathsRaisesEsteemReputation Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.” MenMayStatesChanceTakenEffectsPrincipalPosterityPursuedFactionsNicknamesCalumny Author:Isaac D'Israeli
“He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips.” MayStillsChanceLipsCakeBakingHereafterWheatOvensCookeryHeatingCooling Book:The Plays of Shakspeare Source: The Plays of Shakspeare
“There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured.” MenMayLyingChanceWeakAimSeedsProphecyDeceased Author:William Shakespeare
“And all the bustle of departure - sometimes sad, sometimes intoxicating - just as fear or hope may be inspired by the new chances of coming destiny.” MaySometimesChanceDestinyTravelInspiredDepartureBe InspiredBustle Author:Madame de Stael
“From the moment I start a new novel, life's just one endless torture. The first few chapters may go fairly well and I may feel there's still a chance to prove my worth, but that feeling soon disappears and every day I feel less and less satisfied.” FeelsFirstsWellsMayStillsMomentsFeelingsChanceNovelProveDisappearEndlessSatisfiedTortureJust OneChaptersDissatisfaction Author:Emile Zola
“We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we're right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy. ... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don't always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn't have: A chance.” WorldGivingMayEndsStoriesRealityIndividualWishChanceCrazyBrokenFortuneSpeciesRefuseDenyGood FortuneAmazing ThingsBroken World Author:John Green
“This is more a personal quibble of mine, but why do you hate freedom? Why do you hate the fact that other people want a chance to live their lives and be happy, even though they may believe in something different than you, or act different than you? How does gay marriage, in any way shape or form, affect your life?” PeopleWayWantBelieveMayDoeDifferentFactsFormHateChanceMinesGayShapesGay Marriage Author:Chris Kluwe
“Men may boast of their great actions; but they are more often the effects of chance than of design.” MenMayActionChanceEffectsDesignBoast Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld