“What else is chance but the rude stone which receives its life from the sculptor's hand? Providence gives us chance, and man must mould it to his own designs.” MenGivingHandsChanceDesignStonesProvidenceRudeSculptorsMould Author:Friedrich Schiller
“I couldn't turn down The Rolling Stones. A real man would never turn down the chance of working with legends like them.” MenRealTurnsChanceStonesLegendsRollingRolling StonesReal Men Author:Steve Lillywhite
“There is something I like about talking to journalists that really goes beyond promotion because you aren't just talking to the journalist, but you are talking through them to people who presumably are fans of the Rolling Stones. The interviews give you a chance to say a few things and maybe clear up some of the things people read about the band.” PeopleGivingChanceTalkingClearFansBandStonesJournalistInterviewsRollingPromotionRolling Stones Author:Mick Jagger
“We can preach the Gospel all day long, but that won't win souls. That won't win the hearts of the people. We can talk, try to theorize, theologize, reason, argue, debate, and spend time trying to prove that Jesus lived, but that won't win a heart. How often do we see the religious mindset that believes that the more Scripture quoting, the more yelling, the more hell fire and brimstone preaching, the greater the chance to win someone over for the Kingdom? Likewise, how often do we see people sitting or standing there listening in stone-cold silence or indifference?” PeopleTryingBelieveHeartLongSoulReasonJesusWinningReligiousChanceSilenceHellFireGreaterListeningColdProveSittingStandingStonesMindsetArguingDebateScriptureKingdomsIndifferencePreachingEnd TimesSpend TimeYellingStanding ThereQuotingHell FireStone Cold Book:Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life Source: Kingdom Rising: Making the Kingdom Real in Your Life
“The sea's only gifts are harsh blows, and occasionally the chance to feel strong. Now I don't know much about the sea, but I do know that that's the way it is here. And I also know how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong but to feel strong. To measure yourself at least once. To find yourself at least once in the most ancient of human conditions. Facing the blind death stone alone, with nothing to help you but your hands and your own head.” KnowsWayFeelsHumansImportantHelpingHandsStrongChanceKnow HowSeaConditionsStonesBlindAncientBlowFinding YourselfHuman ConditionHarsh Author:Jon Krakauer
“A Note Life is the only way to get covered in leaves, catch your breath on the sand, rise on wings; to be a dog, or stroke its warm fur; to tell pain from everything it's not; to squeeze inside events, dawdle in views, to seek the least of all possible mistakes. An extraordinary chance to remember for a moment a conversation held with the lamp switched off; and if only once to stumble upon a stone, end up soaked in one downpour or another, mislay your keys in the grass; and to follow a spark on the wind with your eyes; and to keep on not knowing something important.” IfsWayImportantEndsMomentsEyePainRememberLife IsChanceViewsMistakeKnowingDogEventsWindKeysConversationStonesBreathsWingsNotesExtraordinaryWarmGrassSandCoveredSparksNot KnowingStrokesLampsFurKnowing SomethingStumble Upon Book:Monologue of a Dog Source: Monologue of a Dog
“Why are you talking to the King Loser Dork? You want to talk about ugly? Look at what he’s wearing. (Stone) I like a man who takes fashion chances. It’s the mark of someone who lives by his own code. A rebel. A real lone wolf is a lot sexier than a pack animal who follows orders and can’t have an opinion unless someone else gives it to him. (Nekoda)” MenWantGivingLooksRealOrderChanceAnimalTalkingOpinionFashionKingsStonesMarkUglyCodeLive ByLoserRebelPacksLoneDorkLone Wolf Book:Infinity: Chronicles of Nick Source: Infinity: Chronicles of Nick
“Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.” WritingKindBookSometimesFeltChancePleasurePsychologyJudgmentStonesPlantI RealizedVagueSignalsMicrobesSmall PleasuresFeeler Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“I believe that we have free will. I believe we get the chance to make choices in our lives. Not everything is set in stone from the moment we're born. We choose our destiny, our ultimate fate. But I also think that we don't realize the choices we've made until after we make them. We're racing down a freeway, only to realize we've missed all the exits, and the only direction we can go is dead ahead.” ThinkingBelieveMadeMomentsChoicesI BelieveRealizingBornChanceDestinyOur LivesFateStonesUltimateFree WillRacingOur DestinyExitFreeways Author:Neal Shusterman
“There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or loving you. Loving you is like lifting a heavy stone. It would be easier not to do it and I'm not quite sure why I am doing it. It takes all my strength and all my determination, and I said I wouldn't love someone again like this. Is there any sense in loving someone you can only wake up to by chance?” KnowsShouldSaidWould BeBeautifulChanceEffortEasierDeterminationStonesWake UpHeavyLove SomeoneLiftingLoving YouLoving SomeoneEffortless Author:Jeanette Winterson
“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.” WorldFirstsWarChanceBoysStonesCastsInnocentWar Of The WorldsSecond ChanceSecond World WarChoir Author:Ernst Zundel
“It would indeed be a great delusion, if we stated that those sports of Nature [we find] enclosed in rocks are there by chance or by some vague creative power. Ah, that would be superficial indeed! In reality, those shells, which once were alive in water and are now dead and decomposed, were made thus by time not Nature; and what we now find as very hard, figured stone, was once soft mud and which received the impression of the shape of a shell, as I have frequently demonstrated.” IfsLifeMadeHardRealityWould BeScienceSportsWaterNatureChanceCreativeAliveRocksCreationShapesStonesImpressionDelusionShellsVagueSuperficialMudCreative Power Author:Agostino Scilla