Second Chanc Quotes & Sayings

Winning over an enemy is superior to conquering him. — Matshona Dhliwayo

The importance of recovering the customs and the institutions of the past thus inaugurating the archaeological approach to art — Raja Ravi Varma

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he? — Joan Didion

The gods are partial to no era, but steadily shines their light in the heavens, while the eye of the beholder is turned to stone.There was but the sun and the eye from the first. The ages have not added a new ray to the one, nor altered a fibre of the other. — Henry David Thoreau

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored. — Eric Hoffer

Paris is one of my favorite cities, but Paris during Fashion Week is everything! — Brad Goreski

I think there can be some disagreement as to whether Kerry really won Wisconsin or not. — Scott McCallum

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947. — Jim McKay

Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them. — Michael Nutter

Flippancy. A laughing matter. It's like with funerals. They are, first and foremost, expected to be fun. There is laughter and drinking and bad language. To keep the whole thing from being too bourgeois. A bourgeois funeral is an artist's worst nightmare. — Herman Koch

When I met him, he hadn't eaten for days, and lived in a rathole. But his rifle was clean and he had lots of ammunition. Whenever he heard shooting he ran towards it. If it was workers shooting at priests, state officials, capitalists, or cops, he'd empty his rifle as fast as he could fill it. But if two groups of workers ever shot at each other, he'd risk his life by standing between them and shouting, "When workers kill each other, there is no more reason to live! Kill me from both sides."
-- Luisa Nachalo — Sophia Nachalo

I have faith in your eternal, comprehensive plan, and I believe that someday I will be able to see that you have made my life a beautiful tapestry. Right now I can see only sections of the back, with all of its knots and loose ends. But I trust that someday in heaven I will see the front in its entirety - the picture of world history and my own life from your perspective. How amazing that will be! So today give me the grace to interpret unexpected and even unwelcome circumstances as part of your grand plan. When I do, I know I'll be able to embrace both the good and the bad, knowing that you are weaving a beautiful picture with my life. — Amy E. Mason

A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses, that has wasted itself on 'treasons, stratagems and spoils'
of importance only within four walls. A tame animal
in whom the strength of the species has outspent itself, to no purpose. — Dag Hammarskjold

Trying to stop slanderers' tongues is like trying to put gates to the open plain. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra